Manual workers die earlier “office plankton” Dutch scientists came to the conclusion that intensive physical activity at work lead to a reduced life expectancy by as much as 18% in comparison with the life expectancy of those who work all day at the computer. But there is a solution — playing sports in his free time, 150 minutes a week; in contrast to heavy physical labor, such activity does not exhaust the body and strengthens it. Every day we hear about the dangers of sedentary work and a sedentary lifestyle, but the Dutch scientists who studied a large array of data on life expectancy of people of different professions, came to the conclusion that people whose work involves serious physical exertion during the day, die before those who spend a working day in a sitting position. Perhaps it is time to thank the office chair, walk at lunchtime and play
