Tag: skills
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Google Nutrition Information
Google has a handy feature built right into its search engine: for some foods, it will give you a side-by-side comparison of nutritional information. It shows a snapshot by default, and selecting the down arrow gives you many more components to compare, such as dietary fiber content and content of different vitamins. It works best…
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Joining the Circus As you think about ways to make exercise fun and engaging, how about running away and joining the circus? The circus once meant sideshows and animal acts — with perhaps indifferent safety and ethical considerations. Today’s circus productions are generally focused on dramatic and other performing arts, a movement that gathered steam…
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Soylent Meal Replacement? It started with a young software engineer looking to feed himself as easily and cheaply as possible, leading to a blog entry about his experience, “How I Stopped Eating Food.” It continued with a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $750,000, and Soylent is now a company with $20 million of new investment.…
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Breakfast Foods Chocolate? Meat? Fruit? Cereal? I like to tell people to think about having “lunch for breakfast” — so they can start the day with some energizing protein instead of a sugar pastry or donut. When we look at breakfast foods around the world — especially for kids — we see a very different…
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Online Versus In-Person Training Molly Wood produced an article and video for the New York Times, “Test of Strength: Fitness Apps vs. Personal Trainers,” comparing her experience with a workout app called FitStar and in-person sessions with a trainer. She also recorded her meals on MyFitnessPal and got nutritional advice from the same trainer. App…
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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…