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Meet the Kansas State University prof who works while walking! | Most of us get away with eating or listening
to music while working, but this Professor walks. Kansas State University professor Deb Sellers was very well acquainted with the ill effects of continual sitting
and no exercise. So walking looked like the only other alternative. She and husband,
Mark, designed and built a standing desk around a treadmill. They left off the
traditional rails; the monitor, telling the assistant professor how far and fast
she is walking, sits in a custom-built stand atop the desk. Doctors at the Mayo
Clinic invented a treadmill desk, she said. So her husband a commercial woodworker,
made one for her. He measured heights and widths and then constructed a mock-up
out of cardboard. Sellers used it to ensure that the height worked and that she
could integrate physical movement with work. The two hauled it to Sellers' office
on the third floor of Justin. She transferred her second computer screen to the
new desk. Next she checked the energy use. No problem: a treadmill uses about
the same amount of electricity as a mini-fridge, which is commonplace in offices.
Today Sellers tries to walk -- at the pace of 1 mile an hour -- at least an hour
a day, taking care of e-mail and keeping up with her profession.
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