Is it a Computer? Is it a Treadmill?
How about this for the office of the future – a combined treadmill / computer. What a great idea. Sure might help all of us ‘glued to the computer’ bloggers get some exercise on the job.
The brainchild of Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Dr James Levine, this ‘vertical workstation’ offers exercise for both the mind and the body.
Levine’s team enlisted 15 clinically overweight people to participate in a study using the vertical workstation. The exhaled breath of the volunteers was measured to determin how many calories they burnt while walking on the treadmill and doing office work. The results showed that on …read more
Medical Googler or Cyberchondriac ?
January 24, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Computers, Health, Medicine, Misc., Oddities, Psychology, Technology
Cyberchondriac (sy bur KA WN dree ak) n.
- a person who imagines they have a particular disease because their symptoms match those listed on an Internet health site.
You’re spending an extraordinary amount of time on the internet seeking out information on medical conditions, digging yourself deeper and deeper in into the abyss.
Does that make you a medical googler or a cyberchondriac?
Here’s a clue – do you feel better or worse at the end of your search?
A medical googler, such as myself who seeks out medical information for the purpose of writing will feel great at the end of the …read more
