Television Revolution Overview & Steps To Take To Be Healthier If You Sit In Front Of A Computer All Day

Television Revolution Overview: I came across a cool article yesterday that offers an easily accessible overview of the Television Revolution currently underway. The article is both easy to read and very informative offering information regarding streaming video subscription services, streaming video on demand and much more. If you’re interested in the ways television viewing is changing – and how, in the near future, it might change the way you view television shows too– you may want to check out the article. The article is aptly titled Crash Course Understanding The TV Revolution – here’s the link:

http://www.studiosystemnews.com/crash-course-understanding-the-tv-revolution/

Steps To Take To Be Healthier If You Sit In Front Of A Computer All Day: I’ve come across a number of news articles recently that discuss the sedentary life-style that for most people comes with our modern high tech way of life. The basics gist of all the articles is that we tend to do less physical activity today than people did in times past and that although everyone should exercise for at least 30 minutes a day that all by itself isn’t enough to promote optimum health. It seems that just being sedentary during the work day– as those of us who do a great deal of computer work during the work day tend to be – is also bad for your health. And if you do work that has you sit for hours in front of a computer screen you should get up and move around at regular intervals – like those micro stretch breaks Wegmans is always prompting staff and shoppers to do! So you don’t have to do a work-out in the middle of the day; instead you can do little things like walk up stairs instead of taking elevators, park farther away from the grocery store entrance than you need to or even just buy a pedometer or electronic device (like the Jawbone Up) that tracks how many steps you take each day – and shoot for taking 10,000 steps a day instead of the average 5,000 steps a day most of us take.

And I think the writers of the articles are right to place an emphasis on increasing what the Wall Street Journal article author Sumathi Reddy describes as our “non-scheduled physical activities;” because, really, how many of go out and chop wood on a regular basis, walk to work or spend our days on our feet running around? Granted some people still do some type of physically demanding work or just work that requires one to be on one’s feet all day. However, many, many people also spend their days sitting in front of a computer doing work and thus they aren’t up and on their feet as much as is best to promote optimal health. So tech fans that we are – we should pay attention to how much non-scheduled physical activity we do each day and try and do more of it – or just buy a Jawbone Up for $129 as it will send information to your iPhone or iPod Touch regarding how many steps you take each day, how many calories you burn and if you wear it 24 hours a day – it will even let you know how well you are sleeping! And I digress. The Jawbone Up is a cool health gadget and you can check out the product review on Amazon if you’d like although a pedometer, which is can be purchased for about $20, would work too. Having said that here are links to two articles that discuss the importance of increasing our non-scheduled physical activity during the day:

Article 1 is from the Lifehacker site and is titled Why Walking Throughout the Day Is Just as Important as Vigorous Exercise – here’s the link

http://lifehacker.com/5990300/why-walking-throughout-the-day-is-just-as-important-as-exercise

And article 2 is from the Wall Street Journal and is titled Hard Math: Adding Up Just How Little We Actually Move – here’s the link

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324096404578354590581579014.html

 Have a great day!

Linda R.

References

Klosowski, Thorin. (2013, March 13). Why Walking Throughout the Day Is Just as Important as Exercise. Lifehacker. Online.

Manis, Aimee. (2013, March 11). Crash Course: Understanding the TV Revolution. Studio System News. Online.

Reddy, Sumathi. (2013, March 11). Hard Math: Adding Up Just How Little We Actually Move. Wall Street Journal. Online.