Sitting On Your Can Is Unhealthy

Sitting is Deleterious to Your Health And Life

I am a lazy-fat-ass, always have been and maybe always will be.
Awake 16 hours daily, I sit on my can at the computer, watchingntv, reading, and playing video games. Some of the time I am atnconferences and company meetings – and telephoning, sitting onnmy well-padded fundament.

The thought of exercising is an anathema to my 3 pound coconut, and
I have lie down to recover after mental images of gym and equipment.

Who Says Sitting Sucks

Professor Marc Hamilton, Biomedical sciences, University of Missouri-Columbianand his team did the research published 11.20.07 by Diabetes jou
al. This information will be presented at the Second International Congress on PhysicalnActivity And Public Health, in Amsterdam. Hamilton will read it standing up.

1. Sitting all working-day affects our immune system and is disease causing.
2. Sitting reduces fat and cholesterol metabolism and produces more of both.
3. Standing and strolling around our desk and office awakens our enzymesnactivating good metabolism.
4. Blood vessels to our leg muscles are shut-down after sitting a couple of n hours.
5. Standing instead of walking and strolling instead of sitting burn twice thennumber of calories as sitting on our can.
6. Only 28% of Americans get the minimum amount of daily exercise, thus n making obesity standard for up to 68% of us.
7. We know sun-bathing for more than an hour is dangerous and can causenthe big C; you are aware smoking is playing with fate. Now you know sitting more than one-hour (without standing for the next 10 minutes) can be life-threatening.

Coda: Do not spend more time at the gym exercising – you won’t do it anyway.
We are talking about a lifestyle change while in your place of employment.
Lawyers and accountants are chair-sitters at the office, and couch potatoes nat home. How about you and me? Our goal is to improve the quality of we alreadyndo – working at an office in the 21st century.

Did you know that Benny Franklin and Tommy Jefferson worked all day fromntheir (vertical) Stand-Up desk? I checked and Ben lived to about 92 and Tom 81, both with all their marbles. Get a vertical desk and you’ll cut sitting 65%. Now remember, the muscles holding up a 195 pound body burn twice the calories of the same sitting weight. Stand your way to weight loss.

Helping Your Kids Learn

After testing 35,000 kids – preschoolers living in the U.S. Canada and England,
Northweste
University researcher Greg Duncan, and published in the jou
al
Developmental Psychology, November 19, 2007, say – Early Academic Skills,
Not Behavior, are the best predictors of school success.

Coda: if your kid enters kindergarten knowing the alphabet and how to readna sentence, together with some basic numbers skills, he/she is going to do verynwell throughout their school career. Compared to the reading and numbers challenged, your students will be the stars in both school and their careers.

There is a second secret to school success, and it is not social and emotional behavior. Training your students to pay attention and focus on one thingnat a time and not be distracted, is vitally important.

Listen to Thisnn“Children who are aggressive or disruptive in class and do not make friends easily, can still become scholars, if they enter kindergarten knowing their letters and numbers.”
You have the ball, not the teachers or the school board, start training your kidsnat age 4-5 before they start school. If you want to bring out the personal Einstein innyour kids as they mature, consider pre-school tutoring or do it yourself.

Drill-and-Kill

Sure, kindergarten should contain fun-and-games, but do not negate the powe
of drill-and-kill to stimulate the brain for learning principles and skills early.

Reading and Numbers readiness starting at ages 4 and 5 produce measurablenlea
ing affects at 7 to 14.

Advanced Classes

If you want to produce a citizenry of clowns, segregate non-lea
ers together.
Sure, the Supreme Court says there are no segregated schools any more.

You and I know that in immigrant neighborhoods, and schools where 85% of thenof the students are from economically-deprived families – poor, black kids,nthey score up to 3 grades behind the majority population of whites.

Principle: underachievers who are grouped together lead to the lowest commonndenominator – more underachievers.

Endwords:

Schools must not create segregated classes because we are all copycats. If everyonenaround us is a non-achiever and not literate – regardless of the reasons – that isnthe standard we will aspire to.

What is the reverse principle? Put ordinary, standard,nand average kids in a class where the majority are passionate learners (good readers) engaged with kids who find the rhythm in numbers), the minority kids step up to the plate and improve.

That sounds easy; how come it doesn’t happen? Not In My Neighborhood rules.

If there ever was reasoning requiring nothing but common sense, desegregating classes (yes, in 2007) is it. The truth is it is not happening.

Finally, may we suggest you check out teaching your kids, (maybe yourself) –nto 3x your learning speed and 2x your long-term memory. We live in the KnowledgenEconomy and being a skilled learner is mandatory. It is a Learn or Burn society.
Wait. Would you be interested in living up to nine years longer and notnget Alzheimers? The scientific answer is learning skills. Ask us how.

See ya,nncopyright 2007 H. Bernard Wechsle
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