Background Sedentary time is independently associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease. Worksite interventions designed to decrease sedentary time may serve to improve employee health.

A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power. MIT’s pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four ...

GREENVILLE, N.C., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Portable pedal exercise machines may help mitigate negative health effects of a sedentary work routine, U.S. researchers suggest. Study author Lucas Carr of East ...

Combating the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle could be as easy as turning paper-pushers into pedal-pushers, a new study finds. Portable pedal machines designed for under-the-desk use ...

Portable pedal machines could help counter the harmful effects of prolonged periods spent at a desk or workstation among an increasingly sedentary workforce, suggests a small study published online in ...

Unlike the Geek-a-Cycle, this Pedal Exerciser doesn’t require you to retrofit your current desk—which is quite stylish if we do say so ourselves—into a horrible ...

An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student in the UK, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents. An ...