It may drive your co-workers crazy but Jay Kimiecik, author of The
Intrinsic Exerciser (Mariner Press/Houghton Mifflin) and an associate professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, suggests that fidgeting can help burn calories and keeps workers healthier. “That's right,” he writes, “fidget. One study at the Mayo Clinic found that fidgeters burn hundreds of extra calories a day. Start tapping those fingers and feet.”