大家好，托?？荚嚳扉_始了，大家復習的怎么樣了呢，在這里幫考網給朋友們做一個托福復習資料的分享，希望對大家有幫助。

托福閱讀背景學問文章：站著辦公的風險 

A new study says that standing up at your desk doesn’t actually decrease your risk of death-by-office, unless you’re physically active otherwise. 

新研討標明：除非經常鍛煉，否則站著工作也不會降低猝死風險。 

After several studies asserted that sitting at work all day is slowly killing us, researchers at the University of Exeter and University College London took another look at the claims. The Washington Post reports: 

此前，已有多項研討標明，久坐會漸漸地致人死亡。但埃克塞特大學和倫敦大學學院的幾位研討員卻從另一角度停止了研討。華盛頓郵報報道： 

Researchers tracked 16 years’ worth of health data from 5,132 people in the Whitehall II study cohort. Participants reported their total time sitting and how long they sat during four different situations: at work, watching television, leisure time and non-television leisure time. Researchers also tracked time spent walking daily and on physical activity. 

此次研討的調查對象來自白廳二級定群研討，共5132人。研討人員對他們長達16年的安康數(shù)據(jù)停止了跟蹤。調查對象需匯報他們坐下的總時長，以及在四種不同場所——工作、看電視、業(yè)余活動，以及不看電視的業(yè)余活動——分別坐下的時長。研討人員還跟蹤調查了他們每日步行和運動的時長。 

After controlling for a number of factors, including diet and general health, researchers found the overall mortality risk for these participants wasn’t influenced by how long they sat or by the kind of sitting. And the researchers cautioned that too much emphasis on not sitting shouldn’t take the place of promoting physical activity. 

研討人員在控制了包括飲食、整體安康在內的許多變量后，發(fā)現(xiàn)：調查對象的總死亡率不受久坐時間和坐姿的影響。研討人員勸誡稱，人們不應過份強調久坐的風險，而無視強調運動的重要。 

What’s particularly interesting about the study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, is that researchers didn’t just focus on sitting during the workday, but factored in all kinds of sitting-specific data as well as rates of physical activity. Their conclusion was that “sitting time was not associated with all-cause mortality risk.” Basically, more elements are in play than just whether you’re sitting down at work, and your levels of physical activity are the greatest health indicator. 

這項研討發(fā)表在《國際盛行病學雜志》上。其中特別有趣的是，研討員沒有只研討人們在工作時的久坐狀況，還思索到了各種相關數(shù)據(jù)和運動頻率。其結論是“久坐與全因死亡率無關”?？偠灾绊懓部档脑睾芏?，不只僅在于能否在工作時久坐。最能表現(xiàn)安康情況的是鍛煉狀況。 

So what does this all mean? It appears that the act of working while standing up—which has become a trendy thing to do, especially in tech offices—doesn’t help your health, if you’re not actually exercising otherwise. If you never make it to the gym, you might as well just sit down. This is good news for the makers of treadmill desks, however. 

所以這到底意味著什么?如今盛行站著辦公，科技公司尤為突出。但是假如不鍛煉，站著工作也似乎沒什么用;假如永遠都不去健身，還不如就坐著呢。這對跑步機辦公桌的消費商來說，可是個好音訊。 

The last office where I worked jumped on the standing desk trend hard, installing desks that could be raised for all workers. They also had a treadmill desk, and a bike desk. While the option to stand is certainly nice as a change in the middle of a monotonous workday, this research suggests it’s not the cure-all that adherents would like to claim. 

我之前工作的中央勉強跟上了站立式辦公桌的潮流，裝上了可隨意調理高度的桌子。此外，還有一張跑步機辦公桌和一張自行車辦公桌。當然，在乏味的工作之余能站著工作也是個不錯的選擇，但研討標明，站著工作并不是所謂的萬靈丹。 

“Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself,” study author Melvyn Hillsdon of the University of Exeter said in a statement. “Any stationary posture where energy expenditure is low may be detrimental to health, be it sitting or standing.” 

“我們的研討推翻了當下人們對久坐危害的認知，并指出危害安康的緣由在于缺乏鍛煉，而不是久坐，”來自?？巳卮髮W的研討作者梅爾文·希爾斯頓在一份聲明中說道?！吧眢w靜止不動，能量耗費就低，從而危害安康，不論是坐著還是站著都一樣?！?nbsp;

The takeaway here is companies that truly want to assist worker health should invest money in options like free exercise classes and gym reimbursements. They should encourage employees to go outside and actually walk around, not simply stand up at their computers. And maybe it means that everyone who insists that standing up is the only way to work can climb down off their high desk. 

這標明，真正關懷員工安康的公司應該把錢花在購置免費運動課程和報銷健身費用上。公司應鼓舞員工走出辦公室，四處走走，而不是只在電腦前站著工作?；蛟S這意味著那些深信“站著是獨一處理方法”的人終于能從高高的桌子上爬下來了。

以上就是今天分享的全部內容了，各位小伙伴根據(jù)自己的情況進行查閱，希望本文對各位有所幫助，預祝各位取得滿意的成績，如需了解更多相關內容，請關注幫考網！