Wellbeing Platform
Wellbeing Platform in United Kingdom
Moments2Move has been a product of lockdown. We, like millions of others left the office in the middle of March 2020 to start working from our kitchen table or spare bedroom…..and we may be there, at least in part, indefinitely. For some, that’ll be for the better, for others, for the worse.
Lockdown was essential to slow the spread of the disease, but it amplified other diseases – the one we’re most interested in being what doctors call the ‘sitting disease’ which is a catch-all term for all manner of complaints and conditions, but it’s an epidemic in our modern society.
As a family, we felt it first hand and one profound impact was that we hardly moved; no commute, the coffee shop was a few feet away, as was the sandwich shop because the high-street was closed – forget 10,000 steps a day, if we didn’t get out of the house for a long walk, 1000 steps was a struggle!
We’ve known for years that excess sitting (or sedentarism as doctors call it) is literally killing us, and although the pandemic is the top priority, mankind will eventually defeat Covid-19 but the physical and mental-health impact of lockdown will likely last far, far longer.