It’s Wednesday, HOORAY! ! ! , and time for another installment of ERGO WEEKLY (sound echoing like a monster truck rally advertisement.)
This is where we provide you with encouragement to take care of your health while you’re at work through stretching, deskercising and proper posture. And by reminding you to get up off your butt more than you are current. In a perfect world everyone would have a sit-to-stand desk arrangement where you could stand up when you wanted to so that your body would be doing more physical work. But that isn’t the case yet – something that still needs much work and attention.
In the meantime you have us here at Ergo Weekly to provide you with bits of encouragement, fun and interesting tidbits to help you on this lifelong journey.
First up a video link from our the Interior Dimension youtube channel. Here one of the fine people from the Mayo Clinic describes some stretching that you can do at your desk. This fits in nicely with our current tract of deskercising. You can get to the video with this link here:
Next. Is your late night snacking affecting your productivity?
According to a study reviewed by the Smithsonian, when mice where giving meals at the wrong time – they sleep during the day and are active at night – they had a tough time with forming memories and learning new tasks. I believe the tests they were given had to do with remembering a list of numbers and repeating them back, no not really, just seeing if you paying attention.
Anyway, you shouldn’t do it (eat late at night). It’s bad. Check out the review here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/midnight-snacking-bad-your-brain-180954295/
Till next week. Remember to stretch, get up and walk, stand up and work. MOVE, MOVE, MOVE during the day. Your body will be happier, your brain more alive and you’ll get more done.
Remember you can see all of the stretching exercises at www.interiordimension.com/deskercising. Till then make it a great week.