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Health Tips To Keep Techies Pain-Free

Techies are a breed of professionals who are rapidly growing in numbers. Techies are basically software engineers and Indian cities like Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon have a very large number of techies. The lifestyle of techies is famously stressful. They have to sometimes work according to the timings of their foreign clients. So if the working day in USA starts at 12 at night, they start their work to match with it.

As a result, the techies suffer on the health front. Techies have some healthy problems that are very specific to their profession. One of these occupational hazards is lower back pain. Most techies have health problems related to body pain, mainly lower back pain. The core of the matter is that techies need to follow certain health tips that will help them stay fit.

Techie Health Tips

Here are some heath tips that techies need to keep in mind if they wish to live a healthy and productive life.

Don't Get Stuck On The Chair
Not just techies, but many other professionals have the habit of getting stuck on their chairs after they go to office. As software engineers give live tech support, they are been more prone to this bad habit. Ideally you should get up from your chair every 30 minutes but that is improbable. So try to get a small walk around your bay every hour at least. Your body pain will reduce by half in a week.

Watch What You Eat
Your body won't cut you any flak for eating junk just because you are working late at night. Since you have an irregular lifestyle, you must be all the more careful about what you eat. Make it a point that you don't eat any outside food. Eating home cooked food can reduce several health problems of techies including chronic indigestion.

Cut The Caffeine And Drink More Water
It is easier said than done to refuse a mug of steaming coffee, especially when you are coming down with a throbbing headache. However, caffeine dehydrates your body and that too can aggravate your headache. If you cannot reduce the caffeine consumption, then at least drink 4 litres of water in day. When your body is hydrated, it cuts down on joint pain and headaches too.

Sweat It Out
You are busy, so is everybody else. Diseases like diabetes, hypertension etc. are becoming occupational hazards of being a software engineer. All these are finally related to obesity. Most techies have health troubles because they keep giving excuses to themselves that they do not have the time to exercise. It is mandatory for all techies to hit the gym or at least jog every morning.

These are some of the basic health tips that you all techies need to follow. Are you a techie? Tell us your specific health problems.

Story first published: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 13:59 [IST]
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