Just recently some research that has been put together in Canada has suggested that this might be the case, due to the fact that a lot of jobs in our society these days are not labour-intensive, like they were many years ago we have far more automation these days than we used to years ago.

We no longer need secretaries to type documents for us because word processors make it so easy to format and produce professional looking documents, there are many other areas where this is true also, with a click of a button you can now send a message anywhere in the world or to the particular country you live in within seconds.

The object of the study was to find out what impact it had upon your glucose, and your energy intake they used 14 female students, and they were assembled into three groups.

Their body mass index was measured as being a very low 22.4, they performed the following tasks from each group for a period of 45 minutes, sitting in a resting position, reading a document or writing some sort of summary, and doing a computerised test which tested their memory, attention span etc.

They had four blood ingredients measured plasma, glucose, insulin, and cortisol which is the stress hormone, they were then told to eat as much they possibly could when they had finished the various sessions which were 45 minutes each.

The the females that performed the intensive computer tasks which would have used more brain concentration, ate approximately 253 calories more than the, group who were reading and doing summaries, and also ate, approximately 203 calories more than the group whom were resting.

It was proven that the group whom were doing the more intensive brain activity used more glucose as the brain needs glucose the more work it does. So we really need to take away from this that at times we do need to go for a walk at dinner time if it is possible.

Here is some food for though hands up how many people eat food at their computer, or have lunch ordered and eat it at their workstation whilst working perhaps this is another reason for our growing obesity epidemic, it’s not until things like this are put before us that we realise that, it is actually affecting us I don’t actually know what the statistics are.

But more and more people are choosing to work from home and we also use computers at work far more now than ever before they are a commonplace item where ever you go most industries do use them, and I can honestly say that there doesn’t seem to be more much of a slowdown as far as that is concerned.

Our lives have changed over the last 20 years and technology is I would say to blame to some extent as regards our current obesity problem throughout the world.

Source http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20491/1066/1/1/

Tags: glucose, insulin

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