The Quarantine Social Media Weight Loss Challenge

Gaining weight during quarantine? Spending more time on social media? It’s time to combine the two for the social media weight loss challenge. The challenge: can you lose that weight you’ve gained during quarantine imposed inactivity by using your social media time to expend calories walking around your house or apartment?

It’s easy. Get up and get moving. Make sure you’ve got a clear path. Consider how steady you are on your feet. Keeping track of how long you’ve been moving or how many steps you’ve taken. Just over 15 minutes of walking is 2,000 steps or 100 calories expended.

Too hazardous to move and be occupied? Try the rocking chair solution. The rocking chair becomes your exercise equipment as you rock and text or scroll. It’s 150 calories expended per hour of rocking. 

Books by Kunz and Kunz

Research Books

Medical Applications of Reflexology: Findings in Research About Post-operative care, Maternity Care and Cancer Care
Evidenced Based Reflexology Research: For Health Professionals and Researchers
Medical applications of Reflexology:: Findings in Research about Cancer Care

Bestselling Books

 Reflexology: Hands-on Treatment for Vitality and Well-being
Complete Reflexology for Life: Your Definitive Photographic Reference to the Best Techniques and Treatments  
 

Intermittent Moving Books

Intermittent Moving: How I Lost My Pants and Mastered My Weight
Un-Sit Your Life: The Reflex "Diet" Solution

Fun Gifts Kids Love —and Are Even Good for Them

http://amzn.to/2nlJlvF

Children opening a gift and going wild with enthusiasm. That’s the gift we want to give, the present the child in our lives will love. 

We recently had that experience. “It’s a hit,” our niece texted us with the video of her two-year old daughter Sofia using the present we’d given her. 

And the best part? The fact that the over-size piano keyboard makes music with the child’s footsteps lured Sofia out of her chair and into motion. Little Sofia loves the movies Troll and Moana as testified by their presence in the background as she watched them over the Thanksgiving holiday. Just like adults tempted to sit too much, children’s health suffers the effects. Their are immediate effects as well as establishing a pattern for a lifetime of sitting. 

The giant piano keyboard is suggested for children over the age of 12 months. It is suggested adults can enjoy it too. Warning: the keyboard does not come with the necessary 4 AA batteries.

This next gift suggestion is something I want for myself —but, unfortnately, it doesn’t come in adult-size.

Music and special effects noises are created by SoundMoovz, a FitBit-type device worn on the wrist, as the child moves, dances or just runs around. It is advertised as “Music by Moooving.” I haven’t seen any videos of them in use but it sounds like a promising fun gift.

It’s intended for children ages 8 or more. While I won’t be buying gift for a child in that age range this year, a friend appreciated the suggestion for the children in her life.

Keyboard Playmat 71" - 24 Keys Piano Play Mat (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073R2FBWY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

SoundMoovz, by Cra-Z-Art (https://www.amazon.com/SoundMoovz-Musical-Motion-Activated-Bluetooth-player/dp/B0748G2F8Z/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510610585&sr=8-2&keywords=Cra-Z-Art+SoundMoovz+Musical+Bandz&dpID=41YSwQO8Z9L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch)

What’s Interesting about Brisk Walking Helping Only Some with Alzheimer’s

By Henri Bergius from Finland (Walking) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Regular exercise is linked to improved memory and endurance for older adults but this was not the case in a recent study of those with early onset Alzheimer’s.  

“What surprised the scientists was how few of the walkers with Alzheimer’s had actually gained endurance. The same exercise program that previously had increased the aerobic capacity of almost every healthy, older participant now had benefits for the bodies of only a few of the walkers with Alzheimer’s.

“This finding suggests that ‘there may be physiological differences between people with and without Alzheimer’s that reach to the cellular level,’ says Jill Morris, a senior scientist at the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center, who led the study.

“In effect, the bodies as well as the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease may be unusual compared to those of healthy older people and may respond differently, if at all, to exercise, she says.”

Reynolds, Gretchen Frequent, Brisk Walks May Aid Those With Early Alzheimer’s, March 1, 2017, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/well/move/frequent-brisk-walks-may-aid-those-with-early-alzheimers.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fgretchen-reynolds&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0