Table 9.

Estimation of caloric cost of removing walking/standing from daily living

Active activity	Calories used	Sedentary activity	Calories used
Walk up one flight of stairs	4	Take escalator up one flight	0.1
Park and walk into fast food restaurant	23	Sit in car for 10 min in a drive-through lane at restaurant	5
Walk dog for 30 min	125	Let the dog out the back door	2
Stand for 30 min of phone calls	20	Recline for 30 min of phone calls	4
Walk into gas station to pay	5	Pay at pump	0.6
Walk 1 min to colleague & stand to talk to them for 4 min	6	Send e-mail to colleague	2
Walk length of two football fields parking away from store	10	Drive around until a parking space opens near store's entrance	3
Total for active	193	Total for sedentary	16.7