Health and wellness experts offer easy ways to force yourself up, out of that desk chair and into a longer, healthier life.

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It was a physically tiring life but because I was no longer stuck at a 9-5 desk job, I found time to make more videos.

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If you cut the time you spend parked behind your desk daily, on the other hand, you mayextend your life up to three years.

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Given the round-the-clock expectations that digital life has placed on executives, it may well be that holding a desk job is one of the most dangerous things you can do.

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Or there is a crisis and the company needs to cut costs, so your desk is their first stop, since surely training, recruitment and work-life programmers are easily expendable?

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" Never in my life have I heard so many prepositions, as in "Best get that book on up off of my desk.

NPR: Teaching in a Forgotten Part of America

After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.

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