9 BIGGEST LIES IN WELLNESS

1 Sitting Is the New Smoking

THE CLAIM: Sitting all day can kill you (or, at the very least, pile on the kilos); as a result, every office has at least one person with a mild standing-desk superiority complex.

Standing won’t burn more kilojoules. “The difference in metabolism between sitting and standing is almost zero,” says Dr David Rempel, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Standers also have more foot, leg, back and joint pain, “especially when people go from never standing to doing it for eight