Hate Being Chained To Your Desk All Day? 20 Jobs That Keep You Moving

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desk jobs leading to poor health
desk jobs leading to poor health

Most of us no longer earn our salaries by the sweat of our brows. Instead, we work at sedentary jobs, don't work up a sweat on the job (except from stressful situations), and put on the pounds. Fortunately, not all high-paying jobs are sedentary, especially those in health care and education.

A study at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center found that the number of jobs in private industry requiring at least moderate physical activity has sunk from nearly half in the early 1960s to less than 20% today. Specifically, men burn an average of 142 less calories in a workday, women 124 less.

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