#health (171 links)
- The Science of Insomnia io9.com
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men's Journal Magazine archive.mensjournal.com
- Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- » Why You Can’t Eat Healthier :zenhabits zenhabits.net
I should note that this idea is the same for any other addiction: biting your nails, smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc. We use them as crutches to cope with our needs, and to beat them we need to find healthier methods of coping and meeting our needs.
- WalkJogRun Running Routes walkjogrun.net
- Fixing Your Feet - Home fixingyourfeet.com
- MovNat®: Explore Your True Nature™ movnat.com
- Stinky Feet? | Barefoot Running Reviews barefootrunningreviews.com
- Why our food is making us fat | Business | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- Things I’ve Learnt From Running (how to hack the marathon) jones.wordpress.com
Don’t listen to runners that say it is hard. I don’t disbelieve them when they say that. But I suggest it is hard because they run for ulterior motives. People don’t feel they deserve certain things unless they are hard.
- The Perfected Self - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
- Britain's best bike rides | Travel | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- Mobile app - Red Cross Training redcrossfirstaidtraining.co.uk
- Should You Be Running Barefoot? runnersworld.com
- Barefoot running: bare your sole | Sport | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"I asked Galahad Clark, the brand's creator, if he thinks the general public's shoe-coddled feet will be able to handle running with such little support. "Yes," says Clark, "but it will be a big transition for people accustomed to wearing highly cushioned, inflexible shoes. The foot muscles are weak and need to time to adjust." Not such a bad thing, he believes. "Trainers artificially allow unfit people to run longer than their bodies are conditioned for. It's rather like hitting yourself over the head while wearing a crash helmet: it might not hurt immediately but the long-term harm is obvious."
- Thinking of Vibram Five Fingers for running? The only page (+links) you need to read - Disorganized thoughts writings.withoutfriction.com
- The Patient of the Future - Technology Review technologyreview.com
- Phys Ed: How Interval Training Can Improve Health - NYTimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
- Cardiff University - Common Cold Centre cardiff.ac.uk
- Action for Happiness actionforhappiness.org
- My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer guardian.co.uk
The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care.
- It's Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American scientificamerican.com
I've never been at war with salt myself.
minor9th: Trust me on the vaseline - Seven things I've learned the hard way about running http://bit.ly/j4MSL7
- graphpaper.com - For Sale: Fitbit. Like New. graphpaper.com
- The rapeseed revolution - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
"We are confused about fats," says Al Overton, who buys gourmet oils for the organic supermarket chain Planet Organic. "People are always asking me what to cook with. The simple answer is, keep a range of oils. Keep coconut or a similar saturated fat for heavy frying, olive and rapeseed oils for light frying and salads, and pumpkin and avocado oils for dressings and dips."
- Maisonneuve | Diseases of Affluence maisonneuve.org
Everywhere Western ideas touch down, people get fatter. Urbanization is literally making us sick.
- Born to Be a Trail Runner - NYTimes.com well.blogs.nytimes.com
These events are trail races governed by three rules: no fees, no awards, no whining. Distances are typically 50 kilometers or 50 miles, but vary according to a race director’s whims or ability to borrow his buddy’s GPS device. There are no lotteries, no expos, no qualifying times, no triple-digit entry fees subsidizing multimillion-dollar “running clubs.” No one will urinate on you from the upper span of the Verrazano Bridge, and you won’t shiver for hours in a corral before the starting gun.
- Cars (again) - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
Lots of interesting bits here but the stats in particular stand out. "The death toll is not small. The UK, despite having an excellent road safety record, sees more people killed on the roads every year than died during the entire duration of the Troubles in Northern Ireland; "According to the World Health Organization motor vehicle collisions are the 6th most common cause of death in developed nations, with an average rate of 20.8 per 100,000 populations in the year 2000 (30.8 for males, 11.0 for females). African nations have the world's highest road traffic injury mortality rates." (Wikipedia on traffic-related death rates.) 1.2 million were killed and 50 million injured in road traffic accidents in 2004."
- The Quantified Self kk.org
Build your own multi-purpose mobile self-tracking application.
- The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal. Sleep, exercise, sex, food, mood, location, alertness, productivity, even spiritual well-being are being tracked and measured, shared and displayed.
- Pro Feet profeet.co.uk
"Based on your biomechanical evaluation, your qualified technician will hand craft your insoles (orthotics) while you wait and integrate them into the correct running shoe, ski boot or other footwear." Hot foot tech.
- Why social matters – Blog – BERG berglondon.com
Social capital is an abstract measure that wraps up how many people you know, the information flow in your network, how many people owe you favours, that kind of thing.
- Dunning-Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
"An example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average."
- STD e-cards let you break the news anonymously arstechnica.com
As both the Internet and casual sex continue to rise in popularity, e-cards have also seen a rise in use. But the e-cards that connect all of those things aren't your typical "Happy Birthday" with a picture of a cat popping out of a cake; they're aimed at notifying partners that they've been exposed to a sexually-transmitted disease or infection.
Why do double decker buses have windows? I’m not talking about the big windows we look out of, but the small letterbox shaped windows above that we can open and close? The answer, obviously, is so that passengers can regulate temperature and ventilation, but they come with a major problem: for half the year, they make passengers on the bus ill. At least, that’s my theory.