Tag: mindset
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What to Make of Fairlife High-Protein Milk The Coca-Cola Company has teamed up with Mike and Sue McCloskey, dairy farmers, to market a milk branded as Fairlife. It’s the result of a process that pulls apart the nutrients in milk and recombines them to produce a lactose-free, high-protein milk with lower fat. It’s an intriguing…
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Nine Habits That Can Hold You Back Harvard Business Review posted an article summing up some research by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, who run a leadership consultancy. They examined perceptions of the behaviors of 50,000 people in leadership positions, and came up with this collection of behaviors that lead to bad decision making. It’s…
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The Grim Seater By Brian Gable, for the Globe and Mail. Related: Should I Get a Standing Desk?
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Envy for Kids’ School Lunches Founded in DC by 3 Georgetown students, Sweetgreen is a casual restaurant specializing in salads that has expanded to 10 cities. Sweetgreen is also working with area school districts to improve nutrition in schools. Part of its research was looking at school lunches in other places, and Business Insider has…
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Jogging: Does It Keep You Healthy?
The short answer is yes. But you could be forgiven for thinking it doesn’t, given the popularity of articles like “What’s Up With That: Why Running Hurts Every Part of Your Body” and news reports like “Training very hard ‘as bad as no exercise at all’.” Both of these represent pretty terrible news for people…
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Screen Time Makes You Fat James Fell’s latest blog post lists 5 ways TV makes you fat. Most are the usual suspects, but visit the post to see his links and comments about them. The thing I’d add to this is: don’t think your Internet habits are a lot better. Especially if you use more…
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A Love Letter for Your Heart Or maybe more of a roller-coaster ride…? Valentine’s Day is coming up, so how about planning for some intervals-oriented workouts to get that heart beating? (What is a good heart rate, anyway? Why does it matter?) Couch to 5k is a program for people who have no running experience.…
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The Keys to Success: Action Keeping track of food (and exercise) can be every bit as difficult as you want to make it, but it doesn’t have to be. As with any new area of learning, it helps to start small, reconsider your assumptions, and experiment a little to find what works best for you.…
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When Comments Hurt Many people who change their eating and exercise habits to improve their health find that the people around them are not as supportive as they hoped. Some find that a partner brings junk food into the house, even after being asked not to, or coworkers insist that “one donut won’t hurt anything.”…