For most of her life, Claudia Stearns dreaded Thanksgiving. As a person who struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the annual turmoil of obsessing about what she ate—and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food.
I thought I was safe from the “sitting is the new smoking” alarms because as a pharmacist, I spent the majority of my time standing at work. That was until I read articles about how standing for prolonged periods of time also had significant negative consequences