Sitting, apparently, can kill you

I know that we all need to exercise and to be more active in general, but this thing scared me:

http://geekcentricity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/sittingiskillingyou.png

It's a panoply of things that can happen if you spend an appreciable amount of the day sitting, and apparently exercising doesn't help much; most of the damage that can be done to your health is done just from sitting.

Does anyone have a standing-up solution for writers?

Clovia said:

here's a little alarm widget to remind you to get up regularly and move.

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Here are a couple more:

• For Windows and Linux
• For Mac

Both are free. I use them both and I swear by them.

JustJess said:

Hmm...was thinking I'd just sit on my exercise ball, that way I could move around...but then I got to that "175 degree angle" bit... sitting on ball + leaning back=good laugh for fam + sore ass for me.

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I used to do that, actually, but the office got too cluttered for it. It's main benefit is for the abs. The link I put into my OP talks about the dangers related to your circulation that are posed by sitting; which is why it says that sitting for prolonged periods is bad for you even if you have an otherwise active lifestyle. Would sitting on an exercise ball fix this? I have no idea because I am not a physiologist. One would think that someone who sits on an exercise ball is not completely motionless, so perhaps it changes the equation somewhat. Who knows?

I'd love to have a standing desk, so long as it can be safely lowered for those times that I do need to sit; either that or I'd get a bar stool to go with it, and sit on that for part of the day.