Designing Spaces To Fight Obesity

"Buildings have long been designed so people can get from one place to another with minimum physical effort. Now, in a bid to fight a rising tide of obesity, companies, universities and other institutions are embracing the opposite idea: buildings that force employees to move around a lot more.

...Health-related design has growing appeal for some of the biggest users of real estate -- companies that rent office space."

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Thanks to Alex Pearlstein