Tag: sedentary
How’s this for a pretty simple way that could help you lose weight: stand for three hours a day at the office.
An exercise scientist in England calculated that if you make like Ernest Hemingway and stand while you work and do so for three hours of your work day, you burn an extra 144 calories per day. Doesn’t sound like much, but when you work five days a week, that totals more than 30,000 calories a year — which translates to losing more than eight pounds annually. And that’s without changing any other habits.
Now I just need to find myself a chic lectern-style desk…think West Elm makes one? 🙂
(Magnetic timer, Anthropologie)
January 15, 2013
A typical evening include an episode of The Voice and The Good Wife? Two hours of telly daily is enough to kill you early, says research from the Harvard School of Public Health. More precisely, for every 120 minutes of television watching per day ups your chance of dying before age 65 by 13 percent.
Seems that this is likely due to planting ourselves in front of the tube instead of exercising, and that we tend to eat junk food and drink while doing so.
(On another note — anyone else watching The Voice solely for Adam Levine?)
June 15, 2011
Living life à la George Clooney in Up in the Air–that is travelling all the time for work–results in poor BMI and obesity, says a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Actually, referring to this business travel as down on the ground rather than up in the air is more accurate, as 81 percent was conducted in cars (in this study at least). And as you might expect, it’s the poor food choices while on the road and spending much time sitting that were leading factors to the health issues.
More specifically, employees who travelled 20 days or more per month had average BMI of 27.5kg/m2 compared to 26.1 for employees who travelled less than six days monthly.
Business travel not looking so glamorous anymore, eh?
May 3, 2011
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