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.
Category Archives: Health
Walk@Lunch: Making the most of your 30-minute escape
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.)
Next week: Walk @ lunch
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.
Take the Pepsi challenge, snack food industry
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.
Cold weather exercise, exercised moms and who exercises most
Enjoy this tease of warm weather; After Tuesday we’re back to highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s. According to Gary Sforzo, a professor of exercise and sports sciences at Ithaca College in New York, the return of cold weather shouldn’t deter you from exercising.