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Move More Treadmill Desks as a successful intervention to reduce sedentary time and increase physical activity Contents What is the current state of NCDs in SA? How are healthcare insurance companies trying to alter the risks?

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Treadmill Desks as a successful intervention to reduce sedentary time and increase physical activity

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Contents

  • What is the current state of NCD’s in SA?
  • How are healthcare insurance companies

trying to alter the risks?

  • What do we know about sitting?
  • What is the reality?
  • What does the workplace look like?
  • What are the benefits of moving while

working?

  • Is there a business case for investing in active

workstations?

  • About Walk & Work services

Walking is a man’s best medicine

Hippocrates

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What is the current state of NCDs?

For the first time in human history, non- communicable diseases (NCDs) are killing more people than infectious diseases. Every year, about 38 million people die from a NCD—more than two-thirds of the world’s annual deaths.

50% of all chronic conditions

  • ccur

before the age of 50

50 people die per day due to diabetes

1 in 10 people suffer from mental illness caused by trauma or exposure to violence

50% more men die of cardiovascula r disease than women

40 people per day die due to hypertensive diseases

40% of men above the age of 35 are

  • verweight
  • r obese

2 in 3 women are

  • verweight
  • r obese

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How are healthcare insurance companies trying to alter the risks?

Pr Promoting g Ph Physical Health & Fitness

ü Online questionnaires about health and wellness:

  • Family medical history
  • Healthy activity
  • Healthy nutrition
  • Healthy mind and body
  • Healthy habits
  • Workplace wellness

ü Comprehensive annual Health Assessment:

  • Weight
  • Waist circumfence
  • Body Mass Index
  • Blood pressure
  • Glucose levels
  • Cholesterol levels

ü Fitness assessment ü Gym membership ü Daily step counting ü Training programmes ü Fitness events ü Outdoor exercise programmes ü Online lifestyle improvement courses ü Exercise tracking ü Gym visits, ü Event participation, ü Calories (>300 in 1 session), and ü Steps (>10,000 per day)

Assessing current health Encouraging active lifestyle Recognising achievements

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What do we know about sitting?

“Consistent independent associations have been observed between sitting time/sedentary behaviors and elevated all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality risk” 2011; Dunstan, DW et al “Each extra hour of sitting time per day is associated with a 22% increased odds for type 2 diabetes” 2015; Van Der Berg, J.D, et al ”Prolonged sitting and unhealthy sleep duration are established as two additional risk factors for all-cause mortality that should be included in scores designed to quantify health risk.” 2015; Ding Ding

et al

Regardless of regular exercise, high rates

  • f sedentary behaviour have been

associated with adverse physiological

  • utcomes, such as:
  • cardiovascular disease - 147% increased risk,
  • type 2 diabetes (112% increased risk),
  • all-cause mortality - 50% increased risk,
  • cancer (breast, colon, colorectal, endometrial,

epithelial ovarian) - 30-66% increased risk.

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What is the reality?

80% of our waking day is spent sitting, while commuting, working, and spending leisure time.

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What about the workplace?

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the office, are found to to be most t successful for r reducing sedenta tary ry ti time.

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rkplace layout t (pri rinte ters rs furth rther r away from work rksta tati tions);

  • modified work

rksta tati tions, i.e. acti tive work rksta tati tions where people can sta tand, walk, or r cycle.

8-9 hours a day

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Summing it up:

  • Major efforts are made to influence lifestyle decisions to encourage better health
  • Still NCD rates are dramatically on the rise, and killing more people than infectious

diseases

  • Incentives and tools are primarily aimed at bouts of exercise, whereas there’s

compelling evidence that prolonged sitting is a major contributor of the development of NCD’s

  • Interventions at the workplace, where most of the time every day is spent are most

effective when there are changes in the physical environment

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Compelling evidence for the use of treadmill desks

“As an intervention to increase employees’ physical activity while working, the walking workstations, regardless of a person’s exercise habits or body mass index (BMI), had significant benefits in terms of higher satisfaction and arousal and experienced less boredom and stress than those in the passive conditions.” Sliter et al, 2015 “Measuring performance on a 10-point scale, participants scored a point higher when using a treadmill desk compared to those who didn’t” “Daily total physical activity increased as a result of the adoption of treadmill workstations.” Ben-Ner et al, 2014 “Study participants lost as much as eight pounds over the course of a year.” Koepp et al, 2013 “If sitting computer-time were replaced by walking-and-working, energy expenditure could increase by 100 kcal/h. Thus, if obese individuals were to replace time spent sitting at the computer with walking computer time by 2–3 h/day, and if other components of energy balance were constant, a weight loss of 20–30 kg/year could occur.” Levine et al, 2007 “Interrupting sitting time with frequent brief bouts of light-intensity activity, but not standing, imparts beneficial postprandial responses that may enhance cardiometabolic health. The findings may have importance in the design of effective interventions to reduce cardiometabolic disease risk.” Bailey et al, 2015

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Business Case

Inc Increa eased da ed daily a activity, a , and r nd reduc educed s ed sedent edentary ho hour urs

Achieving 10,000 steps* a day, during a normal workday:

Con Contribution

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  • yee perfor
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After the adjustment period, the quality of work, quantity of work and the quality of exchanges with colleagues of those walking & working all improves. (A Ben-Ner; 2014)

Ret Retur urn on

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Investm stment

As people are more active, studies have shown weight loss, addressing obesity. Ben-Ner: “Weight-bearing and increasing circulation can also prevent

  • steoporosis, diabetes and

vascular disease, with obvious benefits to employers, given how costly those maladies can be to treat. You can wipe out the cost of the fanciest treadmill in half a year of treatment,”

0 steps/hour 4,000 steps/hour 2.5*X calories X calories

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Conclusion

§ Current rapid development of non-communicable disease is

increasingly urging organisations to take action, and look for successful interventions to get employees moving, and develop healthier lifestyles

§ Sedentary lifestyles have been identified as a primary risk factor

towards developing NCD’s

§ Interventions in the physical work environment are proven most

successful

§ Millennials are looking for work environments that offer flexibility, and

allows for activity

§ Treadmill desks, reduce sedentary hours, increase physical activity and

metabolism, and improve work performance and job satisfaction

§ As a shared resource, placed in a hub in office spaces, the initial

investment is marginal taking its benefits to the organisation and employee health into consideration

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Procure or Lease

Walk & Work offers various procurement options, to suit the

  • rganisation’s needs:

§ Rental (minimum 6 months, to ensure success can be measured with a

period for adjustment to the new way of working)

§ Lease-to-Own (offering you a flat monthly payment structure, to own

after 1 year)

§ One-off purchase

Proposals are customised for the organisation’s requirements

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Join the movement!

Wa Walk & Work (Pty) Ltd

3 St Georges Mall The Colosseum – unit 505 Cape Town 8000 Ja Jan Fo Folmer er Managing Director jan@walkandwork.co.za 083 5551100 Web: www.walkandwork.co.za Facebook: @WalkandWork Twitter: @WalkandWork Tel: 021 0125999 Elisabeth th Sta tavenga Sales & Marketing lisa@walkandwork.co.za 083 4441020

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