Orthorexia: An Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating At the beginning, the goal seems innocent, smart even: a vow to eat more whole grains, or more fruits and vegetables. But healthy eating can turn rigid and confining, wiping out whole categories of food one by one—first anything with additives, perhaps, then maybe nonorganic produce, and then another and another. It can become decidedly unhealthy. The focus on quality and purity can deteriorate into orthorexia, a term coined in 1996 by physician Steven Bratman to describe a "fixation on righteous eating." Like anorexia and bulimia, it can wreak serious damage on the health of someone trapped in the obsession. "Orthorexia boils down to someone who is very, very concerned with eating what they consider the perfect diet," says Joy Jacobs, a clinical psychologist with the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine. Orthorexia is not a formally recognized psychiatric diagnosis or eating disorder, although most experts agree it blends elements of both.
10 Time-Tracking Apps That Will Make You More Productive In 2014 My favorite tools to keep track of my time are, honestly, pen and paper. What I lose in snazziness, I make up for in flexibility. I don’t have to turn on my computer or phone, which means I’m better about recording "off" hours. Since I’m not beholden to a spreadsheet or categories, I can describe my time however I want. However, in this age of apps, many people want something a little more fancy. 1. With this app, you say what you’re doing, start the timer, and stop it when you’re done. 2. Running in the background on your computer or mobile device, the free version of RescueTime tracks minutes spent on various sites or applications. 3. This free app lets you track your whole life by tapping on your phone to start or stop each activity. 4. Structured to remind you about work-life balance, Eternity divides time broadly into work, sleep, and play categories. 5. 6. This free app combines scheduling and time tracking features for both work and personal activities. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Lifting Your Spirits Quickly and Easily When you're feeling a little down or uptight, give yourself a break by trying some of these helpful tips. Just breathe Typically, when you're distraught, your breathing quickens and becomes shallow. These changes in breathing are bound to add to your stress and make you more uncomfortable than you already are. You can counter such distress with this quick breathing technique: 1. 2. 3. 4. Talk it out People are social creatures. Get soaked Sitting in a warm bath or standing in a hot shower can comfort the body by loosening all those muscles that tighten up when you're stressed. Feel the big chill This technique sounds pretty weird, but it works. Take a quick thought challenge To figure out exactly what's bothering you and consider it in relation to the big picture of your life's events, answer the following questions. 1. 2. 3. 4. Exorcise with exercise The body responds to upset by producing stress hormones. Mellow with music Sound influences the mind and body. Pacify with pets Stay in the present
Life is a game. This is your strategy guide 682k shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide. Basics You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. Most importantly, successful players put their time into the right things. Childhood Life begins when you’re assigned a random character and circumstances: The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. Young adult stage As a young player, you’ll have lots of time and energy, but almost no experience. This is the time to level up your skills quickly. Now that you’re playing properly, your top priority is to assign your time as well as possible. This may sound simple, but the problem is you won’t always know what tasks to choose, and your body won’t always obey your commands. How to obey your own commands Many players find that when they choose to do something – say “go to the gym” – their body ignores them completely. This is not a bug. Where you live
Moment - Track how much you use your iPhone f.lux: software to make your life better What Is Quality? What Is Quality? Quality is one of the greatest things in life, and just as ephemeral and hard to define as Love. And just as we express love to a person through “acts of love,” we can express quality through functions we apply to our product. In my previous post, I spoke about The Forgotten First Principle of Software Delivery: Quality. Quality Is Like Love Quality is not a thing unto itself. When you love someone or something, you invest your time and energy to express that love. Quality is exactly the same. High quality comes from due care and attention. Quality Only Exists In The Presence Of Value Quality is not a thing by itself, as in it cannot be applied to nothing. Applying Quality To Value Let’s look at how this works in product development. Value creation always begins as an idea that you realize through an iterative series of steps. Quality Functions The way in which assumed value is transformed into real value is through quality functions. Putting Quality Functions Into Practice
Nicholas Riley: Software Free software I’ve written This page is a catalog of free software I've written or substantially worked on. For the software provided with no included license, I would ask that you credit me when you make use of or incorporate my software into another product; and that you send along any improvements you might make. Bug reports are also welcome. Pester: simple, disposable alarms and timers for OS X Pester is designed to let you set, dismiss or snooze an alarm or timer as quickly and painlessly as possible, entirely from the keyboard if you wish. What other people say: Macworld, Wolf Rentzsch, Daring Fireball. Download as a compressed disk image (UDIF), version 1.1b18 for Mac OS X 10.6 and later. Shroud: a sensory deprivation tank for your Mac1 Shroud places a solid-color backdrop behind windows or applications to allow you to focus. What other people say: The Guardian, 1Edge Cases. Note for OS X Mavericks (10.9) Users: Shroud 1.2 is compatible with OS X Mavericks. Manage a lab of iMacs?