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Each grunt of business knows the feeling. At 15h, like a marathoner who just turned the corner to the mile 20, you hit a wall. Yes, the dreaded afternoon fall, when you are asleep, you are stirred, and you start watching the clock as a child stuck in detention. Fight, you do what everyone does: youreach another cup of Joe.

Well, it turns out that you probably should not. Instead, you should probably pay a visit to your stairwell of your office.

The researchers of the Kinesiology Department of the University of Georgia have found that walking and going down the stairs for ten minutes, or about 30 total stories, offers the same energy consumption as 50 mg caffeine, about 4 oz. of coffee. But get this: The mini-drive has a much stronger effect on your ability to come back to work than any vention, Starbucks.

Authors Patrick O'Connor and Derek Randolphpublished their conclusions inPhysiology and behavior. The participants were deprived of sleep - it get less than six and a half hours of sleep per night-female-college. To gauge the efficiency, O'Connor and Randolph had participants, distinct days, consume caffeine pills or placebo, or walk and get off the stairs.

At the end of each day of the study, the authors administered computer exams - to evaluate emotions and cognitive performance. Caffeine and placebo had no effect. But the stair march has proven to increase the motivation to do work and pass through this afternoon.

Do you have to ride stairs to give you an energy boost? Of course not. The study says that 10 minutes of any mild exercise will do the trick. But the authors have chosen to get up and down the stairs because most office workers, of course, have them ready and because they know that many workers findgoing to the gym Harder and harder.

Moreover, as O'Connor says it, "It never liked me while walking on the stairs." So the next time you are considering the elevator, do not do it.

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