On Sedentary Lifestyle and Occupational Health

Well, i'm working in an occupational health department and I think it's pretty relevant to our lives cos as what it is ... we spend most of our time at office. Some even up to 10 or 12 hours. ouch.

Yamapee is quitting officially today and I just read her blog on unhealthy sedentary life. How true! One of my colleague is trying to work out a healthy lifestyle in the department by getting volunteers to climb stairs and making the stairway more enticing and attractive to climb. Pretty nice idea. The stairway is pretty stuffy and quiet *echo*, i wonder how it'll change in July. (Update : They just installed fluorescent tubes in addition to the natural sunlight. So it's quite snow bright now. :) )

After a day's work, we'll probably spend some time eating dinner and watching TV/surfing net/MSN. After that we'll sleep for another 7 hours or so. Some even shorter (which seems to be prevalent *gasps*)

So how much can one exercise/walk in a day? :)


Some call NUS the University of Stairs, which I think could be pretty good in getting our quads and calf muscles working! Of which I think the mega flight of stairs at the Sheares side of Biz takes top place.