Green Options » kinetic chargers http://greenoptions.com/tag/kinetic-chargers Posts tagged 'kinetic chargers' Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:08:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en As Long as You’re Walking and Working … http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/22/as-long-as-youre-walking-and-working/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/22/as-long-as-youre-walking-and-working/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:08:08 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/22/as-long-as-youre-walking-and-working/ Araceli Alarcon at Wikimedia Commons, public domain.)The weird things you discover while following random links online: apparently there’s a small but growing trend of people walking on treadmills — dubbed Walkstations — while they work.

The New York Times wrote last week about how companies like Humana, Mutual of Omaha, GlaxoSmithKline and Best Buy have been buying these Walkstations — a total of 335 since last November — to help their employees stay fit while they work. Credit for the concept goes to James Levine, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic who’s big on the benefits of exercise.

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