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>> Has anyone dealt with this successfully? I'd love to |
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>> know how you did it. |
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You're right to worry about this....and I suspect it's also aging |
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related. The older I get, the more sensitive I am to how many |
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hours/day is healthy. |
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I don't think there is a perfect solution, especially as more and more |
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important things in life require an internet device of some kind. |
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It's not uncommon for me to spend 2-3hrs researching something, up to |
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8hrs working, and then have 2 hrs of other emails/social/community |
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stuff all in one day that involve computers. |
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12 hours/day in a roughly fixed position indoors is never ever going |
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to be healthy. Especially if it must be kept up for years and years |
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as one gets older. |
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So, I've gathered ideas from others and have come up with my own |
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recommendations: |
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a) avoid going to the computer if you can be doing something else and |
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don't need to be there (once I'm at a computer, there is always |
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something that can make me stay there so avoiding being there in first |
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place is important) |
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b) stand up and take brief walks for whatever at least once/hour while working |
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c) recent research suggests that taking vitamin d tablets starting in |
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ones thirties can have a significant impact on relieving some of the |
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sunlight/lack of being outdoor issues |
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d) try to go to the gym or do some signficant exercise to start the |
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day, this can possibly trick your metabolism to run faster all day |
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long |
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e) what many people do, I find, is simply have days where you don't |
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touch the computer (briefly check cell phone but thats it) |
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f) try to find something in your daily routine that will take you |
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outdoors for at least an hour/day, preferably longer (can be harder |
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for those of us who telecommute) |
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g) try to build regular activities with your family/friends that |
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involve outdoor recreation (build a home pool/take up swimming |
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laps/etc) |
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Nothing will completely remove the fact that modern life is |
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increasingly unhealthy, but the above is at least a good start. |
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Matt |
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Matthew Marlowe |
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matt@××××××××××××××××××××.com |
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Senior Internet Infrastructure Consultant DevOps/VMware/SysAdmin |
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https://www.twitter.com/deploylinux Gentoo Linux Dev |
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of every virtue at the testing point." -- C.S. Lewis |
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