Today, I’m going to camp. Just like with any camp, there’s a mix of nerves and excitement. Excited about learning new stuff. Nerves over performing in front of others. Nerves and excitement over meeting new people.
But this camp isn’t like the camps of summer’s way past, where new lanyard-weaving techniques were learned, where a mangled camp song solo was greeted with water balloons, where the older kids thought up devious pranks to pull on their underlings. This camp is the new approach to conferences, where top down is turned on its ear and the participants vote on what they want to discuss and learn about. Within a topical framework, of course, which for today’s camp is three rapidly emerging areas of health care: mobile health, telemedicine and social health.read more
So far in this Walk@Lunch Week we’ve talked about the reasons you should spend your lunch “hour” walking. We’ve talked about the benefits to your body, we’ve talked about the benefits to your sanity. Today, we’ll talk about the benefits to your bottom line. Your wallet/purse/man-bag, that is.read more
OK, it’s settled: This coming week, instead of working through lunch at your desk or going out with the gang for a $4.95 all-you-can-eat-but-not-necessarily-digest buffet, you’re going to observe National Walk@Lunch Week and take a walk. (Technically, it’s National Walk@Lunch Day, but the observance deserves at least a week.)read more
Here’s a radical proposal for the workweek ahead: Let’s band together and take back the lunch hour. And once we get it back, let’s put it to good use.
Let’s take a walk.
A fact that will surprise few of you: In 2006, KFC — the fried chicken people — conducted a survey of working America’s lunchtime habits that found, among other things, that nearly two-thirds of worker bees surveyed declared the lunch “hour” to be “the biggest myth in office life.” In practice, 52 percent said they took less than 30 minutes for lunch and 58 percent reported that they eat at their desk and work through lunch.read more
Tuesday morning I was at a Brains & Bodies workshop conducted by Advocates for Health in Action, a consortium of local public and private sector groups “shaping a community where healthful eating and physical activity are the way of life.” Brains & Bodies is a program of the Wake County PTA designed to encourage healthy habits in our schools. Healthy habits such as PTA fundraisers that eschew cookie dough sales in favor of fun runs. That kind of thing.read more