Limit Your Sitting and Sleeping to Just 23.5 Hrs Per Day
In asking the simple question: “Can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23.5 hrs per day?”, this video nails the importance of physical activity in a manner that can appeal to everyone. Please watch it, show it to your friends and colleagues, and forward it to anyone who you think would benefit from the message.
A Doctor-Professor answers the old question “What is the single best thing we can do for our health” in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Tagged with: health • Obesity • Physical Activity • sitting • Sleep • Sleep Health • sleep video
Filed under: Obesity • Sleep • Sleep Problems
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With regards to sitting: TV watching is pointed out but NO mention is made of work related sitting which probably account for the lion’s share of a sedentary lifestyle.
If someone’s work necessitated exposure to dangerous or carcinogenic substances there would be strict measures brought in to minimize the risk. 40 hours a week at computer may be a more significant health hazard than working in coal mine. So I’d like to see some focus on requiring employers to find way to mitigate the effects of sedentary jobs as work place health and safety issue.
As an example, a friend of our works of for military as an airplane crash investigator. This role involves a lot of computer time the Canadian military requires him to take an hour of his work day each day to do some form of physical work or exercise.
Rather than focusing on evening TV watching which is for many a stress reliever and occurs at the end of the day when people are tired to begin with or trying to ask already time crunched people to make even more time after work for exercise, we should look at treating sedentary work its self as a work related health hazard. We should rather follow the example of the Canadian military and mandate minimum daily physical activity time be part of normal working hours for every employee whose job function places them at risk.