Pedometer: The Easy Way to Exercise
Every step counts: A pedometer keeps track of your 10K per day goal. Photo: Robinssports.com.
It can be hard to get the gym every day, but a lot of us can chalk up 10,000 steps a day — the recommended amount for moderate activity, and about five miles — without breaking a sweat. The Walking Site recommends little ways to work in a little work out, from walking instead of driving to the store to getting up to change the TV channel rather than using the remote. To record every step you take, wear a pedometer: At then end of the day, you’ll have a measure of how far you’ve gone.
Cheap, Eco-Friendly Notebooks
Well noted: Pads made of office waste have a minimal footprint—and maximize the cash you can keep in your pocket.
Store-bought notebooks use new paper and cost money. DIY notebooks made of one-sided photocopy scraps use paper that would be otherwise thrown away—and are free.
Planet Green has a tip: Go to a local copy shop. Gather discarded papers. Select card stock to use as a cover. Bind them together. Voila: A notebook that will ease your environmental guilt, and save you money.
Don’t Fear the Salad
Hold the fries: Don’t be fooled into passing up a healthier option, like these miced greens.
Another great tidbit from Lifeacker: A study shows that when a menu offers fries AND salad, subjects are more likely to order fries—as a reward for merely considering and then dismissing the lettuce-y option. When you eat out, be conscious of making healthier choices and sticking to them.
Eat Your Veggies the Easy Way—with Chocolate
Chocolate, and chock-full of sweet potatoes: Martha Stewart’s fudgie brownies.
We all know we should eat our vegetables, but it can be hard to work them into the repetoire. For newcomers to healthy eating, a painless way to up the plant content is to conceal them into tasty treats. Martha Stewart’s Whole Living magazine suggests whipping them up into brownies for a dessert that’s good—and good for you.
Want More Willpower? Switch Hands When You Brush
Have a hard time sticking to a new habit and blame it on a lack of willpower? Try using your less dominate hand in routine tasks: It may help steel your resolve.
Lifehacker reports that a study suggests that making a simple change to a everyday chores—like switching the hand you use to brush your teeth—could strengthen your stick-to-it-iveness by increasing your mental stamina. And, at the very least, it could up the amount of time you spend on your mental hygiene.
An apple a day, the easy way
A friendly reminder: Put apple stickers on your calendar to record your daily dose.
VikDesign has come up with a cute calendar to help you track your apple a day. Peel the sticker off the fruit and put it on the calendar square to keep yourself current. The idea could work for any calendar, but VikDesign’s includes pictogram reminders. For sale on Etsy.
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Folks—welcome to day one of Crossing the Digital Divide. Reading List TK
