Part I – Personal Health You don’t use a sports car to trailer a cigarette boat. It might do the task – for a while. Before the chassis screams and the engine breaks. The same is true of human beings. Our hunter gatherer bodies are not fit for the Internet Age. Not at all. Many […]
How you can take time off and get more done (11/24/10)
New Ways to Increase Productivity Take breaks and get more done – is that possible? More than possible, if you know how the body renews and regenerates itself. In yesterday’s New York Times, Jane Brody profiled Professor Tori Yancey of UCLA. Yancey wants Americans to move, and knows well they don’t like to. Her answer […]
Physical Activity + Social Rest = Less Depression (and Fewer Colds) – 11/2/10
It’s a Matter of Moving Forty thousand Norwegians can’t be wrong. They were studied by groups from Kings College, London, and the University of Bergen with a simple question – does exercise decrease depression? The answer was – yes – by about half. With depression now affecting up to 30% of Western populations, that is […]
