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.
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
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
The Six Habits That Make You A Man - Thumotic I’ve made all kinds of mistakes in my life. I spent four years fucking around in college. I backpacked around the world for a year like a dirty hippie when I should have been building my future like a grown man. I drank too much. I chased girls for the ego boost. These were the Mistakes I Made In My Early Twenties. But – surprisingly – everything worked out great. Despite the major screw-ups categorized in that post, I’ve still reached the age of twenty-eight with a great foundation for the rest of my life. As I reflect on my life so far, I’ve realized that most of the good things that have happened to me have been the result of a few of simple habits. Habit #1 – Lift Weights When I was in grade seven, the girl I liked was attracted to a friend of mine. I designed a simple body-weight exercise routine for myself and finished it every day for the summer. There are a lot of surface benefits to weight training that you’re already familiar with: Obviously there are limits to this statement.
Three Rules For a Meaningful Life — umair haque Three Rules For a Meaningful Life Small Steps to Big Truths 1. Be ruthless about meaninglessness Go ahead and think about your day. I’m betting that a large part of it, if not most of was spent on stuff you didn’t mean. That’s the way most of us live. And then we turn around and ask: “why does my life feel meaningless?!” See the point? 2. Little meaning comes from stuff that has meaning to you. But if all I did was sit around listening, I’d never really feel like my life meant something. Big meaning isn’t what matters to you. To earn big meaning, you have to go out there in this big scary world and do things that matter to people. You’ll fail. 3. There have probably been a million Einsteins in the world. There’s a little touch of genius in all of us. This tiny chink of genius is the deepest truth of us. What does matter is freeing that tiny chink of genius in us, so that it can illuminate the world. Freeing the genius. And that is all meaning really is. Umair Philadelphia August 2016
Donald Hall on Growing Old and Our Cultural Attitude Toward the Elderly “For old people,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in contemplating aging and the substance of our personhood, “beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young… It has to do with who the person is.” Life, Meghan Daum has written, “is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.” And yet the great tragedy of our culture of appearances is that people seem to disappear from our scope of curiosity as they grow old. Animated by our unconscious social biases, despite our best intentions, we lose interest in “who the person is” and render the elderly invisible, denying them the dignity of being seen for the immutable parts of the human spirit that remain, in Maya Angelou’s unforgettable words, “innocent and shy as magnolias.” The felt interiority of that disconnect is what poet Donald Hall (b. In a sentiment that calls to mind C.S.
How to Discover Your Deepest, Darkest "Core Wound" In life, we all have the tendency to believe that we are unworthy on some deep, undefinable level. Whether we believe that we are unworthy of happiness, pleasure, love or fulfillment, we all have a “core wound” deep inside that varies according to our circumstances and experiences. This deep, fundamental wound is the result of the foundational beliefs that we were taught since birth, contributing to the faulty self-image that we continue to carry around with us to this very day. Our core wounds are our deepest seated pains in life. 1. 2. The Original Sin Christian teachings make reference to our “core wound” all the time in the form of “original sin.” Often, our core wounds start in childhood. As our core wounds began to deepen throughout our childhoods, pubescent years, and subsequent adult years, we began to put up barriers of protection to keep other people from hurting us. Getting to Know Your Core Wound Everyone experiences their “core wound” differently. Healing Your Core Wound
Internal 'clock' makes some people age faster and die younger – regardless of lifestyle | Science Scientists have found the most definitive evidence yet that some people are destined to age quicker and die younger than others - regardless of their lifestyle. The findings could explain the seemingly random and unfair way that death is sometimes dealt out, and raise the intriguing future possibility of being able to extend the natural human lifespan. “You get people who are vegan, sleep 10 hours a day, have a low-stress job, and still end up dying young,” said Steve Horvath, a biostatistician who led the research at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We’ve shown some people have a faster innate ageing rate.” A higher biological age, regardless of actual age, was consistently linked to an earlier death, the study found. Intriguingly, the biological changes linked to ageing are potentially reversible, raising the prospect of future treatments that could arrest the ageing process and extend the human lifespan.