Tag Archives: television
Be on the move
Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by Julia Barnard.
If you’re sat behind a desk at work, try to get up and walk every 20 minutes, especially after eating. Doing so may help reduce insulin and glucose levels that occur after a meal – increased levels of which have been linked with diabetes and heart disease. This is according to a study conducted by [...]
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July: A Whole Month of Happiness and Wellbeing
Posted on 01. Jul, 2011 by Julia Barnard.
July is the seventh month of the year and is named after Julius Caesar. This month there really is a reason to be happy as International Happiness Day is celebrated. As such I will provide you with some simple tips to help you not only celebrate this day, but to be used at any time. [...]
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April: A Whole Month of Happiness and Wellbeing
Posted on 01. Apr, 2011 by Julia Barnard.
April is the fourth month of the year and may have been named after the goddess Aphrodite. Celebrated this month are World Creativity Week, World Health Day and International Dance Day. This month I will consider how everybody can be creative and how using your creativity skills can be a great mood booster. In recognition [...]
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March: A Whole Month of Happiness and Wellbeing
Posted on 01. Mar, 2011 by Julia Barnard.
March is the third month of the year and is named after the god Mars. This month marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere and the start of autumn in the southern hemisphere. Make sure to note the changes in the season, no matter where you are in the world. March is International [...]
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10 Time Saving Strategies That Will Also Increase Happiness
Posted on 25. May, 2010 by Julia Barnard.
We all hope to get more time from our day. Most of us, I imagine also want to be happier. This article discusses ways to better manage your time that will help increase your overall mood. 1 Limit television watching to one hour a day By setting this time restriction on your habit, you have [...]
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Active parents, active children
Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by Julia Barnard.
Parents who endorse vigorous physical are likely to have children who are themselves physically active. Such children also watched less television and spent fewer hours at a computer. However, gender differences were found in the study by Anderson which was published in the American Psychological Association journal Health Psychology. Boys received more encouragement from their [...]
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TV watching increases blood pressure
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
Spending too much time in front of the has been linked with high blood pressure. What makes this finding more startling is that the link has been found in children. 111 three to eight year olds had their activity levels tracked for one week. During this time they wore an accelerometer which measured how active [...]
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Surviving Unemployment
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
If you’ve ever found yourself unemployed than you know how it feels. It can be a terrifying time, wrought with anxiety and fear. You are unable to see past the present moment. Suddenly you are faced with a whole host of and initially you may feel paralysed, unable to act. However, if you can keep [...]
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Television and children’s health
Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
An analysis of 173 studies revealed a link between media viewing and the health of children and adolescents. Three quarters of the studies found that watching TV, using computers and playing video games had a harmful effect on children. The more time spent engaged in these activities, the more likely the child was to be [...]
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Television and happiness
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
Unhappy people spend more time each week watching than do happier people. This is according to the findings of the General Social Survey, conducted on over 30,000 adults in the US. They found unhappy people watched 25 hours of television a week, compared to an average of 19 hours a week for happy people. The [...]
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