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" More than one in three workers do not exercise during office hours because they are too embarrassed to appear hot and sweaty in front of their colleagues, a survey has found. Researchers for the British Heart Foundation discovered that 55 per cent of Britons spend the majority of their working day sitting or standing still, while nearly half (48 per cent) eat lunch at their desk. With 81 per cent of workers failing to do the recommended amount of exercise each week, the British Heart Foundation is concerned that many are putting their health at risk. Lisa Purcell, project manager for the charity&amp;#039;s Health at Work programme, insisted: &amp;#039;Embarrassment shouldn&amp;#039;t prevent people from being healthy at work. &amp;#039;You don&amp;#039;t have to don a lycra leotard to get fit and healthy, the payoffs from even simple changes like taking a walk at lunchtime are too great to ignore.&amp;#039; The statistics were published to mark World Heart Day (September 26th) - a global awareness campaign initiated by the World Heart Federation. The federation has published its own survey findings which show that 32 per cent of employees believe their workplace actually hinders their efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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