Dr Michelle Dickinson: Nanogirl on why desk jobs can be just as tiring as manual labour
This week we are going to talk about why desk jobs might be just as exhausting as manual labour jobs!
Published this week in the journal Current Biology.
the research looked into why we can come home from the office feeling exhausted even though all we have done is sit at a desk all day.
The study split 40 volunteers into two groups and gave them thinking tasks to do for 6.5 hours straight with only two 10 minute breaks in that period.
One group was given easy thinking tasks, the other group difficult thinking tasks.
During this time the researchers used a technique called magnetic resonance…
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