Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Welcome To Amish Country Furniture Sales at Standupdesks.com. 
  
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 At least, that’s the gist of a few articles that have made the rounds recently. A particularly popular article in Men’s Health cited a study in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise that will make any desk jockey wince. Examining the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over 13 years, the report found those who sit for most of the day were 54% more likely to die of heart attacks. According to Men's Health, that statistic was true even if the people in the study were nonsmokers and regular exercisers. 
  
 Another report cited in a recent New York Times Magazine story tracked 123,000 Americans and found the death rate for those who spent six or more hours a day sitting was 20% higher than for men who sat for three hours or less. For women, the difference was 40%. No one's really sure exactly why that's the case. You certainly burn fewer calories sitting than you do standing and moving around, but weight gain isn't necessarily the primary reason that sitting is so bad for you. 
  
 If you’re like me, you’ve read those articles and wondered, “OK, what’s the alternative?” Aside from switching occupations (maybe it's time to brush up on those dormant lumberjacking skills), your best bet might be a standup desk. Right now, such desks are tiny niche in the market, but, thanks to those recent articles, things are picking up. 
  
 Jim Gattuso, who owns the domain name standupdesks.com, says that traffic to his site has quadrupled in recent weeks. Up until now, though, he had done a pretty good business, mostly for people with back problems. Gattuso started his business about 17 years ago when he was suffering from back pain and was looking for a standup desk. He couldn’t find one, so he contracted with a furniture maker in Ohio’s Amish country. The furniture maker was willing to make a desk, but he had one stipulation: “If I wanted him to build me one, I’d have to have at least three pieces made.” Gattuso kept two for himself and then decided to try to sell the other one on the Internet. It sold so fast that he realized there was a market for such things. 
  
 The cult of standup desks may be small, but proponents are vocal. Donald Rumsfeld is said to be a fan as is writer Philip Roth. Rob Schwartz, chief creative officer of ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day LA, got a standup desk seven years ago because he heard Ernest Hemingway used one. “I figured, he’s a pretty good writer, so maybe I could use one, too,” Schwartz says. Physical issues didn’t play a role in Schwartz’s decision — he doesn’t have a bad back and isn’t worried that sitting all day will cause him to have a heart attack. “You get more done when you’re standing up,” Schwartz says. “When you’re sitting, you’re naturally recessive, you’re receiving, when you’re standing, you’re ready to do something ... I don’t know. I used to be a bartender, so maybe that has something to do with it.” 
  
 Jon Paulsen, CEO of The Human Solution, which sells ergonomic office furniture, says that, despite the hype, a sit-down desk won’t kill you. “[Sitting is] not necessarily a bad thing, but doing anything for eight hours a day is bad,” he says. Paulsen, a certified ergonomist, recommends an electronic retractable desk, which can help you easily go from a sitting to a standing position. Desks with adjustable cranks provide too much of a barrier to going back and forth, he says. The important thing is to vary your routine. “It’s a great way to change your posture up,” he says. “As people get older, they find more benefits to moving around during the day.” 
  
 Such solutions don’t come cheaply. An electronic retractable desk will run you $1,000 to $2,000, but Paulsen says you can get “a real nice one” for $1,100 to $1,200. What if that’s out of your reach at the moment? Paulsen says make a point of getting up every half hour or so and walk around. “It’s good to take microbreaks,” he says. Such advice may be hard to follow, but, as any stand-up desk evangelist will attest, it's better to look weird than to die young. 
  
 For a look at some standup desks, click on the gallery below. ||||| Standing desk prototype #1 
  
 I built an elevated platform so I could try working at a standing desk. It's 11.5 inches high, and I built it from .75" x .75" sticks and .5" plywood. I added lots of triangular bracing and then sat on it to make sure it could hold my 27" iMac without collapsing. I just started using it this morning so I can't say how much I like it yet. 
  
 I'm standing on a gardener's kneeling pad, which is probably too spongy. I might switch to a yoga mat. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 This is a prototype. I am going to use this one for a week, take notes, and make another prototype. (First note for Prototype 2 - a nook under the plywood to hold the external drives and USB hub.) 
  
 Here's Donald Rumsfeld at his most charming (which is about as charming as a monitor lizard) defending his standing desk and explaining to the CNN host that Thomas Jefferson had one and that naval officers use them. Go Rummy! 
  
 UPDATE: Here is the image I'm using on my desktop. |||||
Solution:
A slew of stories warning about the health risks of sitting too much has led to an uptick in interest about desks that allow people to stand, writes Todd Wasserman at Mashable. Exhibit A: Traffic has quadrupled in recent weeks to standupdesks.com. "Right now, such desks are tiny niche in the market, but, thanks to those recent articles, things are picking up," he writes. The alternatives range from inexpensive makeshift desks to electronic retractable versions that can run up to $2,000. Short of that, an ergonomist (who doesn't quite buy all the recent hype) suggests getting out of yours chair for "microbreaks" every half-hour so or. Mashable provides a photo of gallery of standup desks here, and Boing Boing (which prefers the term "standing desk") has another example here.