FROM ANOTHER SITE........... Hi guys...I saw something on tv yesterday that might benefit all of us who spend long hours sitting in front of a computer monitor. The advice was actually given for quilters but when you think about it, quilting and computing require similar muscles <grin>. The show was "Simply Quilts" on HGTV and the episode name was "Ergonomic Quilting". The doctor giving the advice was also a quilter. She says take a ten-minute break every hour without fail. Get up - walk around and stretch. When you are sitting, here are a couple of good exercises to relax you; she called them "yes, no & maybe", which makes them easy to remember. The "yes" exercise is fully nodding your head up and down slowly. The "no" exercise is - you got it! - fully nodding your head back and forth slowly. And the maybe exercise is like shrugging - hunch your shoulders to the bottom of your ears and then just let them "flop" back to a natural position. Three reps for each exercise. You won't believe how much better this will make you feel. Another tip - keep those books you refer to often across the room - which will *force* you to get up now and then. I like mine at my fingertips, which probably saves me time but costs me in the long run. The doctor also said by the time you are 70 years old, you need at least 50% more light to work than you did when you were 30. And I'm not exactly sure about that - it may have been 100% - at any rate, I was astounded and this is something we all need to think about as we get older. Save those eyes as much as possible! I don't plan to make a habit of sending things like this to the list but I thought it might benefit all of us. Permission is given to forward if you think this is worthy advice. I'm forwarding it to my county mailing list. Carole Palmer --- Webster County KYGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste ******************************************************************** ********************************************************************** *****Your kygenweb homepages are***** CALDWELL http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/caldwell.html LYON http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/lyon.html TRIGG http://www.kyseeker.com/trigg/index.html **********************************************************************