Adults who use a standing desk

Americans bought more candy in proportion to how many of them stood up while working, which is either a balance of forces or a small private joke at our own expense. The desk is upright. The chocolate, unrepentant.

Both are wellness-adjacent trends moving for completely unrelated reasons. Candy and chocolate sales have grown on premiumization (more expensive bars, more occasions) rather than volume, while standing-desk adoption climbed sharply through the 2010s as office wellness culture took hold. The country wanted to feel healthier without giving anything up. Both numbers got what they asked for.

So the correlation is the calorie and the calorie counter, both expanding. Neither cancels the other. The desk stayed up; the wrapper stayed open.