Classroom standing desks may help kids slim down

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) - Standing desks in classrooms could help children maintain a healthy body weight, a new study suggests. Standing desks “can interrupt sedentary behavior patterns” while kids are in school, “simply, at a low cost, and without disrupting classroom instruction time,” the authors of the study write in the American Journal of Public Health. Healthy weights are assessed differently in children than in adults.