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Many of us spend all day rushing around. After our morning coffee and whatever food-like substance we choose to throw into our bodies, it appears to be a race through the work day until our head hits the pillow, and we start the next day all over again. This is not conducive to good health and lead to inefficient work days. The questions remain: How much time do we really pay attention to our bodies...
November 13, 2009
Everyone knows that it sometimes costs money to make money. What this means is that even though most of us have to work at a job 9 to 5 every day to make money, it is costing us to do this, i.e. gasoline for our car or bus or train fares, health care costs resulting from sedentary commutes, and costs to our environment to burn fossil fuels for transportation to work. So what can we do? Simple...use...
November 13, 2009
Walking is fantastic exercise. It is one of the easiest forms of exercise in that you do not need any additional equipment, fancy gym memberships, or special clothes to do it. Another great aspect of walking is that anyone of any fitness level can do it. Even the most out of shape person can get started on a fitness plan that includes daily walking, and slowly increase the distance until they are where...
November 13, 2009
With people working longer, health and productivity often suffer. Since it may be impossible to workout when you come home, it would be advisable to be creative with doing a workout at work. It‘s not impossible to do a "no workout-workout” at work if you follow these simple suggestions. First, remember to park your car far from your work building so you can get in a good walk (this is a workout). This...
November 13, 2009
Expensive fitness equipment makes it very easy to improve your health. However, some busy people do not have the time or money to spend on such things, but would like to improve their health. Yet how to get good health may seem elusive to them. This does not have to be the case. Doing body weight exercises at the office can allow you to use gravity as your own personal fitness machine. How Can One...
November 13, 2009
Power breathing a great way to do a workout at work without breaking a huge sweat. Not only will this relieve stress, this will allow you to strengthen your abdomen while standing, lying on the floor, or even sitting in your office. With only a few power breathing crunches your abdomen will feel stronger and help support your posture in addition to tightening your muscles inside and out. A few power...
November 13, 2009
Most people today find themselves extremely busy. If they are juggling a schedule between work and home, children and other responsibilities, the truth of the matter is, most often people neglect themselves with regard to their eating habits. The whole idea of "healthy eating" goes out the window. Eating a nutritionally balanced meal does not have to become an issue with regard to time nor does it...
November 13, 2009
When it comes to vending machines snack choices at work, despite what suppliers may claim about the foods that are available, they are simply not healthy. According to fitnessmagazine . com (2009) some healthier snack lists for vending machines include baked lays potato chips, sun chips, popcorn, and peanut M & M's. Yet all processed foodstuffs have high glycemic content meaning their consumption produces...
November 13, 2009
Everyone knows the feeling of that mid-afternoon blood sugar slump at work. You still have a few hours ahead of you before you're free from your cubicle and can leave the work world and yet it is taking all your energy to make sure that you're not caught snoozing at your desk. So you head across the office for your daily work sugar fix. However the options before you in the vending machine, while they...
November 13, 2009
Health care insurance often seems like a daunting topic and therefore it is often easier to just listen to what the media tells us than to actually read through the pages and pages of health care legislation. Yes it is true that much of the health care jargon is difficult to understand, and it feels as though congress has written the health care legislation in such a way as to keep the average citizen...
November 13, 2009
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