Behavior Change: Changing Your Environment
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The document discusses applying behavior changes to improve health by changing one's environment. It describes how sitting less is associated with lower risk of early death and cardiovascular disease. It then details changes someone made to their home environment, such as creating a standing desk, moving snacks out of easy reach, and making their toothbrush more prominent, to support healthier behaviors. The results of implementing these changes are promising according to behavior guides.
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Behavior Change: Changing Your Environment
- 1. Changing the Environment Applying Behavior Change Rio Akasaka (@rioakasaka)
- 2. Challenge The challenge is to change our environment in such a way that supports better health
- 3. Approach Healy, G. N. et al. 2008. Breaks in sedentary time: bene鍖cial associations with metabolic risk
- 4. Approach: Sitting Less have a Adults who sit less throughout the day lower risk of early death particularly from cardiovascular disease (CVD). http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/HW-PA-SittingLess-Adults.pdf
- 5. Warning: Before The room is pretty messy because I essentially had to dump two boxes onto my couch to make the standing desk.
- 8. After I created a standing desk where I used to have a repository of stuff I would never touch I moved some of my photography equipment to the main desk, because it acts as triggers for me to go outside and take photos. I removed my chair entirely.
- 11. Results! See my behavior guide to some fantastic results from people who implemented this change!
- 12. Some other changes I moved all the sweets into a cabinet that is harder to reach. I also divided the sweets and candies I had into sweet and salty, with the saltier items further up (and farther away).
- 13. After I created a standing desk where I used to have a repository of stuff I would never touch I moved some of my photography equipment to the main desk, because it acts as triggers for me to go outside and take photos. I removed my chair entirely.
- 14. Some other changes Some of the healther staples like rice, tea and 鍖our which used to occupy that cabinet space are now more visible and easier to reach.
- 15. After I created a standing desk where I used to have a repository of stuff I would never touch I moved some of my photography equipment to the main desk, because it acts as triggers for me to go outside and take photos. I removed my chair entirely.
- 16. Lastly One last (minor) change I made was to make my toothbrush more prominent in my bathroom - as a result I noticed I was more keen on keeping the toothbrush completely clean, and also to use it more often.