local action in Austria: Spine screening in bit Graz

| Saturday, December 31, 2011
When working with a computer eyes and spine are the most suffering parts of the body.

For prevention and for checking already occured troubles bit provides a 3D spine screening on January 18, 2012.

The screening is performed with a device called MediMouse(R) and followed by "innoVit" posture analysis. 

Please find the information folder for download.

thoughts after our first meeting

| Monday, December 19, 2011

Finally I found some time to write a few words about my thoughts after our meeting.
Once again, many thanks to our organizers from Portugal! :)
I think the program that we fulfilled during these 3 days will allow us to implement the project locally in very effective way. For me personally, this meeting has opened my eyes to many issues. So far, the word "diet" I was associating with women's magazine covers that increase sales by posting descriptions of increasingly more sophisticated diets.I have never refered to these topics myself. Honestly I did not even read them, because simply I didn’t need a diet.
Our meeting
made ​​me realize that the “diet” is something more than weight loss regime.
Now I understand
it more as a way of thinking and lifestyle.
The fact is that excessive snacking leads to the obesity, which is nowadays a huge problem, however, poorly balanced diet in the long term may also pose a threat to the health and life.
My diet is far too monotonous! That is why my motto for the New Year is: "You are what you eat"! I do not want to be as boring as my diet ;)

Sports activity: walking - jogging - running

| Tuesday, December 6, 2011
One of the project's activities will be a participation in the intercontinental marathon in Istanbul in November 2012. Therefore we started with some physical exercises. To give an opportunity to all participants it was called "walking", but as soon as the track was clear and it was ensured that nobody could get lost, some increased the speed.

Our guide brought us from UTL through the village to a very nice path.... 

... which lead us to the Atlantic Sea. Here in Algarve it is very calm.

There should exist a group picture ... I got a picture of the photographer.

This is a recording of the track. 5.4 km. Not too bad!

First meeting: Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal

| Monday, December 5, 2011
After a very warm welcome we got a tour through the building of our project partner Universidade dos tempos livres, UTL in short.

There we found some student painted pictures which perfectly reflect the main topics of our project:

Healthy food:


Physical activity:


and finally: stress release.