The Simple Truth About Happiness “The opposite of happiness isn’t sadness — it’s boredom.”Tim FerrissTweet Over the past 4 years, I’ve read a countless number of articles on following your bliss, building passions, and being happy. Most articles touch on some common themes: finding passionate work, building positive and healthy relationships, being open-minded, and trying new things. This is, as you know, is all great advice. But over time, even though I started to explore and define my own life with these themes in mind, something felt off. There would be days where I would be insanely happy and days where I felt immensely depressed. But the down days were much, much worse. On the surface, there didn’t seem to be any correlation. But after a couple of months of accepting my bad days as normality, I stumbled across the reason for exactly why the worst days occurred and why my happiest days were so awesome. The Principle A mentor told me a couple years ago a core principle that he lives by: And it makes total sense. Examples:
Ernährung im Job: Kaffee senkt Diabtes-Risiko | Karriere Ernährung im Job : Vier Tassen Kaffee am Tag sind kein Problem Seite 2/2: Gleich mehrere Ernährungsstudien, die die Wirkung von Kaffee kritisch untersuchten, konnten die angeblichen negativen Effekte aber nicht nachweisen. Die Ergebnisse waren eindeutig: Bis zu vier Tassen Kaffee pro Tag sind nicht gesundheitsschädlich. Die Forscher fanden auch heraus, dass täglicher Kaffeekonsum nicht vermehrt zu Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen führt. Zu viel Trinken schadet Übrigens kann man es mit dem Trinken auch übertreiben. Der Effekt ist paradox: Wenn jemand zu schnell zu viel Wasser zu sich nimmt, fällt der Natriumgehalt im Blut stark ab. Um eine Wasservergiftung zu bekommen, müsste man aber viel mehr als sieben oder acht Liter in kurzer Zeit trinken.
HIGH-INTENSITY CIRCUIT TRAINING USING BODY WEIGHT: Maximum R... : ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal At the Human Performance Institute, Division of Wellness and Prevention, Inc., in Orlando, FL, our clients are high-performing professionals from a variety of industries. These men and women face incessant demands on their time, along with the pressure to perform at high levels and balance their careers and personal lives. From our work with elite performers, we have learned that managing energy is the key to sustaining high performance. However, when facing seemingly infinite demands, one’s ability to manage and expand physical energy can be severely compromised. This can result in persistent fatigue (physical, but also emotional and mental) and a growing level of disengagement with one’s career, family, friends, and personal well-being, which can ultimately lead to performance failure. Traditionally, resistance training often is performed separately from aerobic training — typically on two or three nonconsecutive days each week. Contraindications Exercise Selection Exercise Order 1. 2.
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout Photo Editors’ note: Here’s one of our favorite stories from the archives with a helpful tip for Smarter Living. For a greater challenge, see “The Advanced 7-Minute Workout.” And download our new, free 7-Minute Workout App for your phone, tablet or other device. Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. “There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article. Interval training, though, requires intervals; the extremely intense activity must be intermingled with brief periods of recovery. This column appears in the May 12 issue of The New York Times Magazine.
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New forensic technique for estimating time of death by checking internal clock of the human brain - Science - News People with severe depression have a disrupted “biological clock” that makes it seem as if they are living in a different time zone to the rest of the healthy population living alongside them, a study has found. It is the first time that depression has been linked unequivocally to the internal circadian clock of the human brain, which regulates the body's day-and-night cycle over a 24 hour period, scientists said. The researchers found that they could estimate a healthy person's time of death to within a few hours by analysing the activity levels of a set of genes - whether they are switched on 'high' or 'low' - within certain regions of the deceased brain. However, this correlation broke down when they analysed the autopsied brains of people who had suffered from depression. "Our data also suggests that their daily cycles are not only shifted, but also disrupted. "But we were able to show that most individuals carry the gene activity 'clock' in their brain. Further reading:
People with diabetes 48% more likely to suffer heart attack, researchers find | Society People with diabetes are 48% more likely to suffer a heart attack than the general population, according to one of the largest research projects into the health and care of people with the disease. The national diabetes audit, published on Monday, examined the NHS's treatment of almost 2 million people with diabetes in England and Wales in 2010-11. It paints a worrying picture of how the condition sharply increases the risk of other complications, some potentially fatal. The audit, undertaken by the NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre, the charity Diabetes UK and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, also found people with diabetes were 65% more likely to have heart failure, 144% more at risk of needing kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant, 210% more likely to have a leg amputated above or below the knee , 331% more likely to need part of a foot removed and 25% more at risk of suffering a stroke.
6 traits of the best workplace on earth How do you create the best workplace on earth? Photo credit: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones ponder that question in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review , summing up their discussions with hundreds of executives. But are Goffee and Jones in search of a utopia that doesn’t exist, or can’t exist because it would contradict itself? When it comes to examples of workplace utopia, what comes to mind for many people is Google. Many public or non-profit organizations, such as universities or governmental research facilities — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute or NASA come to mind — may also be among the best places to work on earth for many. And for commercial businesses, it’s questionable how open and free things can be, since there needs to be a constant discipline in the drive for profitability. What’s the best workplace on earth?
The five best fish recipes from Observer Food Monthly Sea bream in fish fragrant sauce: Fuchsia Dunlop This is my attempt to recreate, on a domestic scale, a recipe from the Bashu Weiyuan tucked away on a back street in the centre of Chengdu. There, where they title the dish "Lucky home town fish", they serve a whole sea bass covered in lavish quantities of fish-fragrant sauce, that famous Sichuanese combination of pickled chilli, garlic and ginger with sweet-and-sour flavours. Here, I've suggested using a smaller fish and more modest amounts of sauce. Serves 2stock 750mlsea bream 1.35 kg, scaled and cleaned, but with head and tail intact For the saucecooking oil 2 tbspSichuan chilli bean paste 2 tbsp (or Sichuan pickled chilli paste if you can get it)garlic 1 tbsp, finely choppedginger1 tbsp, finely choppedstock 200mlcaster sugar 1 tbsppotato flour 2 tsp mixed with 1½ tbsp cold waterChinkiang vinegar 1 tbspspring onion greens 3 tbsp, finely sliced Heat up the 750ml stock in a wok. Halibut with chestnuts: Jason Atherton Socialeatinghouse.com