The Lumafit brings interactive fitness to your smartphone. Lumalift can precisely identify and rate cardio workouts by tracking motion at the head. Lumalift has apps for both fitness and relaxation. (Video)
Top 5 interesting facts about entrepreneurs’ health
Do entrepreneurs lead healthier lives than office workers?
Physicians and business owners are among the people most likely to exercise, according to the most recent Gallup Well-Being Index. Here are five other interesting facts about entrepreneurs from the Gallup Index.
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Office ergonomics take a stand on the health hazards of sitting
Extended sitting slows the body’s metabolism of glucose and lowers the levels of good (HDL) cholesterol in the blood.
Health studies have always concluded that people should sit less, and get up and move around more. But the accumulating research on sitting reveals something more intriguing, and disturbing: the health hazards of sitting for long stretches are significant even for people who are quite active when they’re not sitting down. Recently two studies have reiterated that point, published in The British Journal of Sports Medicine and in Diabetologia, a journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
