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If your job requires you to spend all your working hours glued to your office chair then you need to be extra cautious about your body posture. And, to add to it, if you don’t have an exercise routine then you are doomed. Remember, just a few days back, we discussed at length about what a poor posture can lead to! All you need to avoid those health problems related to a sitting job is to get yourself an ergonomic office chair like this one from the famous Aeron chair. As Peter Hall, on Pop Science reports, Aeron chairs are working on some new concepts including this ultimate self-adjusting office chair that doesn’t require you to adjust the chair’s settings every time you shift. The chair feature panels that auto adjust to your every shift and will adjust itself like scales to the sitter’s weight as he or she reclines, eliminating the need for recline controls. Awesome concept!
via Gizmodo
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Eggs Bacon and Ergonomic Office Chairs .
When i was young it used to be Breakfast, the most important meal of the day, start with a hearty fry up and you will be set. Although 3 stable meals is still the norm we are now encouraged towards the 5 a day principle.
Fruit and vegetables help set you up for a healthier lifestyle. Best of all, there is so much variety to choose from, all year long. There’s enough to keep even the fussiest eaters happy. To get the best health benefits, your 5 A DAY portions should include a combination of a variety of fruit and vegetables. That’s 5 portions altogether, not 5 portions of fruit and 5 portions of veg. So the big fired breakfast i have enjoyed for so many years is not as good as it seems (still tastes great on the odd occasion)
We all seem to have the information needed to have a healthy life style on the food front, but there is a lot more to it than what you eat. With more than 80% of the population suffering from some sort of back pain and with recent reports showing
that 44% of all reported strains and sprains, which required more than three days off work, were of the back of spine and
most commonly it is related to discs in the back being compressed from maintaining a position in sitting (especially for a prolonged period). Combined with leaning forward increases the compression of the discs and the risk of back pain.
Bad seating has been shown to speed up disk degeneration. As more people became chair bound (75% of the working population) and less active, abdominal and trunk mussels slacken, further increasing the instability of the spine and the risk of back pain.
So why are most of us still sitting on a out of date unsupportive office chair causing lasting, sometime irreversible damage to our backs? The benefits by purchasing a good ergonomic office chair seem obvious, not just for the person sitting in it for hour on hour per day, looking after there back, but equally for an employer.
Like it or not we are all employed to earn someone money, be it your self employed from your home office, or one of thousands of employee’s for a multi national company. If your office chairs not an ergonomic office chair your costing someone money, and increasing the chances of having a reduced mobility later in life (not always that much later).
I just don’t understand it, with days lost as a result of incorrect seating from bad office chairs, which evidently causes bad posture.With the financial losses on employer’s (or yourself), not to mention the possible damage caused to the user. Why do we not insist on a correct office chair? If your not happy were you sitting at the moment either get your self a correct ergonomic office chair or insist you boss get’s one for you, it’s a win-win situation.
And don’t forget to enjoy your breakfast.