Posts Tagged ‘health’

Something to feel good about

June 20, 2008

Saw this on wordpress home page, makes my Friday for some reason

Australians fatter than Americans

Who knew that Vegemite sandwiches were so fattening?

But at least they’re serious about global warming

IT work hazardous to health

May 27, 2008

People who work in IT are getting fat and are out of shape. Adding obesity, very poor diets and lack of physical fitness to the list of ills when working in IT. You already knew about carpal tunnel syndrome, back and other problems from sitting in poor position all day long, mental stress from job pressures and at times extremely long hours (all of which in turn contributes to getting fat and poor diets). How many IT people have died from karoshi?