This glossary is a good place to put something straight: Anyone who likes to work at a standing desk is not normal.

On his few vacations, he also goes on bike trips called “Torment you” and wears barefoot shoes at parties to train the foot muscles.

Standing desks are an ordeal when used.

And yes, after all, you have to work.

In any case, researchers have now found that sitting is unhealthy, but not the new smoking - smoking is actually more deadly - and sitting is "neither an addiction nor a danger to others," said Terry Boyle of the University of South Australia.

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He is co-author of the study "Is Sitting Really the New Smoking?" Published in the American Journal of Public Health. Nevertheless, it will not only have a power-political reason that Sebastian Kurz, Steffen Seibert and the entire Hamburg tax authorities have been working at standing desks since at least 2013. Doctors recommend that at least a quarter of the working time should be spent standing. And don't just sit down for the remaining three quarters, warns the President of the German Spine Society.

And if we do sit down, please at least on different bases: different desk chairs, normal chairs or sometimes on the exercise ball.

Imagine the office of the German Spine Society in Buchholz in the Nordheide with two secretaries, a dozen empty chairs and an exercise ball.

"Since I no longer smoke, I also try to sit less," says a colleague.

But she found it much easier to quit smoking than to start standing.

Even if it has to.