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Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by walkamages on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @05:54PM (#8926360)
I was just remarking to a colleague today how beneficial a lunchtime walk really is. The walk provided: 1. Fresh air 2. Exercise 3. A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides. 4. A chance to take a brief phone call from a recruitment agent to discuss a better job 5. A chance meeting of an old colleague I had not seen for nearly twenty years as he also took a walk. 6. I was away from the desk when the boss had a crappy task so someone else had to do it. 7. I found a new coffee shop I will revisit 8. I solved a long running problem by being able to walk and think 9. I am sure the stress levels were reduced!
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by megablast on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @11:39PM (#8927561)
Depends where you are. If you are outside a big city in the US, then you can't even walk anywhere unless you like walking on roads and highways.
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by strathmeyer on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:29AM (#8929619)
You think if there are fewer roads that you are forced to walk along them??
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by cafard on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:59AM (#8929810)
I assume that he means along as in "on the roadway" rather than "along" as "following the road, but on a sidewalk".
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by brianmcc on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:23AM (#8928286)
Seems more a downside of some locations, than of lunchtime walking per se?
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by swah on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:32PM (#8926515)
Also gets digestion going if you had a heavy lunch...
Re:The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk by antoaravinth on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:16AM (#8929917)
The point :

> A chance for the eyes to change focal range from the fixed distance of the shitty monitors work provides.

is followed by me daily. I have a cute nice wallpaper hanging behind my pc. Every say 10 minute, I change my vision to point to the wall-paper from regular pc vision.

After following this, I haven't faced any eye stress. Really helped me.

Anyone follows over here?