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Ok... so how are we going to keep our hearts healthy? I don't think that sitting down 12 hours a days is helping?
by neals 12y ago
Ok... so how are we going to keep our hearts healthy? I don't think that sitting down 12 hours a days is helping?
- dethstar 12y agoI read The Healthy Programmer and it had a bunch of exercises you could do while sitting. You could also, if body-abled just start working out, jogging or something else.
- bbcbasic 12y agoI wonder if we need to change our interface with the PC - the typewriter is so 19th century. Something like Kinect waving your hands to get stuff from your mind into the box. I reckon with shorthand encoding you could get 200WPM, and fit.
- Zigurd 12y agoSome people will continue to be paid to sit and think. The remaining employed people will be moving about using a mobile device and interacting with a sensor and beacon-suffused work environment. Perhaps we can have a 30 hour work week and have more time for physical activity.
- bbcbasic 12y agoAll sound plausible. Except the 30 hours.
- SupaDupa 12y agough
- lucaspiller 12y agoExactly. When you can work while driving, in line to get coffee, collecting the kids from school, going to the doctor etc I guess we'll spend more time working. I wonder if implants will let us work while we sleep?
- Zigurd 12y agoIt's going to be something. 30 hour week. Basic income. Revolution. Better to make an intentional choice.
- aptwebapps 12y ago"Some people will continue to be paid to sit and think." The thinking part being more important than sitting.
- custardcream 12y agoThey have it figured out already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyZGZRnQb4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyZGZRnQb4 This is called "emacs fingers" in the office... More seriously I do most of my work on paper with a pencil.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoGestures? A neural interface would be much faster. http://neurosky.com/ http://neurosky.com/ http://emotiv.com/ http://emotiv.com/
- revelation 12y agoYou do cardiovascular exercise and hope you've gotten a good ticket in the genes lottery.
- k__ 12y agoThe genes lottery... haha yes. Soon it will probably be easier to grow you a new heart and replace your old one every 10-20 years or so.
- jacquesm 12y agoThat still leaves you with the pesky little detail that any kind of surgery has an associated risk of you leaving the hospital in a horizontal position. So you're definitely not going to be taking the risk of swapping your heart out every decade over exercise, you will only do that when there is absolutely no other option. Elective surgery isn't a good idea. If you can do without, do without.
- k__ 12y agoprobably. but if it's safe to say, that every heart stops working after a given period of time, what else can you do? die while on a plane when it suddenly stops or switch the heart planned while you are still healthy?
- cpncrunch 12y agoAlso have a good diet. Diet and exercise are the main ways to prevent both cancer and heart disease. There is also emerging evidence that vitamin D helps prevent cancer.
- evo_9 12y agoResveratrol is a good start along with regular exercise. Yeah down vote the guy that had a stroke playing hockey, then started taking Resveratrol and was back on the ice 90 days later playing against Division 1 and ex-Pro players at a high level again. Resveratrol is the real-deal, I know from personal experience.
- cbd1984 12y ago> Resveratrol is the real-deal, I know from personal experience. Even assuming you aren't lying, so what? Any number of things could have helped you purely by coincidence. Had things worked out differently, you could just as easily have been in here touting the benefits of copper bracelets, or megadose vitamin C, or cod liver oil. It's just not convincing. That's why trials have hundreds or thousands of people: To make "it was coincidence" the least likely explanation, from a statistical standpoint.
- dghughes 12y agoTwo recent articles here (or reddit) the woman who was a stenographer joined up with a programmer to create spoken commands to program. Add to hat the recent NSA project that search code and autocompletes what you are working on as if MS Word is correcting a word on a document. Imagine both of those in Google Glass you can jabber to yourself while jogging. I see all this crap and forget to bookmark it then can't recall where I saw it!
- ams6110 12y agoIt's anecdotal, but none of the old people (>age 70) that I know have ever exercised in any significant, systematic way.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoHow about significant non-systematic ways? Going back only a few years it seems most jobs were manual to some extent. People also were more self-sufficient: grew their own veg, made their own clothes, fixed their own things. Even non-manual jobs would be more active as you'd need to visit people, move files, gather research materials or whatever.
- vishnugupta 12y agoCould it be because they exercised in a natural way; by way of manual labor? In various forms such as car wash, house cleaning, walking, gardening and such. My conjecture is that the rise of exercise/gym coincides with the rise of automated labor and as jobs moved from being labor intensive to knowledge intensive (i.e., as economy moved from agriculture oriented to manufacturing and then finally to service oriented).