Is There a Prize For the Sedentary Life?
Do you know the name for that little gizmo that meters (measures) the amount of walking you do? Anyway my pal Joe Barber (not Joe the barber) decided to track how much normal exercise he gets after getting off the bed in the AM to hitting it again in the nocturne.
Fact: folks under the age of 24 walk an average of 10 miles daily.
That is 20,000 steps daily, including jogging, workouts on the treadmill, and ordinary walking.
Fact: Homo-sapiens age 30 to 50 using the gimmick around their waist produce an average of 10,000 steps or 5 miles daily.
Fact: Joe Barber, lawyer extraordinaire, and his firm's rainmaker (big money producer), recorded a total of 2,500 steps daily.
That is about 1 mile plus daily.
So What Oh yeah, they call it a Pedometer or Step Counter.
Some of us are on-the-go daily, we call them Active, their opposite are Sedentary, and finally Joe Barber who is a slug, snail or maybe a corpse.
Couch-potato is a nice metaphor creating a comic book picture in your mind.
In Victoria, Australia, David Dunstan, at Baker Heart Institute conducted a serious research project on the moving around habits of 8,800 folks they followed for 6 and a-half years.
All were over age 24 and conditioned to watch tv, live on the computer, and play videos for amusement.
Would you believe there is a scientific correlation between the hours in front of the screen and death from cardiovascular disease.
You are not going to remember the percentages, but cashing in from heart disease was over 18% higher, and cardiovascular - 80% greater than 2 hour TV viewers.
A lot of difference.
How Much Those of the 8,800 who spent at least 4.
5 hours and up in front of the TV were the winners - they got to the autopsy finish-line first.
Not funny? Joe B recorded 6.
5 hours on TV and another 6 hours word-processing or surfing the Internet.
Did you know Autopsy comes from Greek and means - seeing with your own eyes? It is an analysis after something has been done - including the cause of one's demise.
After Joe revealed his lousy score, I put on the Pedometer and looked at it again when I removed my shoes at about 10pm.
My word of honor - it had not moved.
That could make one nervous-from-the-service (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
You can Google the Ozzy research at January 11, 2010 online version of Circulation, a medical journal of the American Heart Association.
Look, articles, reports and books about being sedentary have nagged you and me (Sedentary http://www.
speedlearning.
org - HBW at speedlearning.
org
Fact: folks under the age of 24 walk an average of 10 miles daily.
That is 20,000 steps daily, including jogging, workouts on the treadmill, and ordinary walking.
Fact: Homo-sapiens age 30 to 50 using the gimmick around their waist produce an average of 10,000 steps or 5 miles daily.
Fact: Joe Barber, lawyer extraordinaire, and his firm's rainmaker (big money producer), recorded a total of 2,500 steps daily.
That is about 1 mile plus daily.
So What Oh yeah, they call it a Pedometer or Step Counter.
Some of us are on-the-go daily, we call them Active, their opposite are Sedentary, and finally Joe Barber who is a slug, snail or maybe a corpse.
Couch-potato is a nice metaphor creating a comic book picture in your mind.
In Victoria, Australia, David Dunstan, at Baker Heart Institute conducted a serious research project on the moving around habits of 8,800 folks they followed for 6 and a-half years.
All were over age 24 and conditioned to watch tv, live on the computer, and play videos for amusement.
Would you believe there is a scientific correlation between the hours in front of the screen and death from cardiovascular disease.
You are not going to remember the percentages, but cashing in from heart disease was over 18% higher, and cardiovascular - 80% greater than 2 hour TV viewers.
A lot of difference.
How Much Those of the 8,800 who spent at least 4.
5 hours and up in front of the TV were the winners - they got to the autopsy finish-line first.
Not funny? Joe B recorded 6.
5 hours on TV and another 6 hours word-processing or surfing the Internet.
Did you know Autopsy comes from Greek and means - seeing with your own eyes? It is an analysis after something has been done - including the cause of one's demise.
After Joe revealed his lousy score, I put on the Pedometer and looked at it again when I removed my shoes at about 10pm.
My word of honor - it had not moved.
That could make one nervous-from-the-service (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
You can Google the Ozzy research at January 11, 2010 online version of Circulation, a medical journal of the American Heart Association.
Look, articles, reports and books about being sedentary have nagged you and me (Sedentary http://www.
speedlearning.
org - HBW at speedlearning.
org