Many of Diet Blog's readers - myself included - will have made various resolutions on January 1st. From past experience, I'm sure most of us know that those great intentions don't always last very long.
Resolving to exercise more, lose weight, eat healthily and so on can lead to a constant uphill battle. If your lifestyle is naturally sedentary and your eating patterns have been constant for years, the "new you" will struggle to constantly find motivation to do things differently - old habits are hard to change.
Instead of trying to make resolutions, then, focus on making good habits - and breaking bad ones. Here's how:
Breaking Bad Habits
1. Look for "the moment it all goes wrong"
With many bad habits, there's a specific point where your good intentions become derailed by events. Sometimes, you need to work back from this point to figure out where it went wrong - because this is what you need to tackle first.
Researchers have found that being slightly overweight and inactive - not just obese - increases the risk of heart disease.
A study of 21,094 US male doctors for two decades found that being even slightly overweight increased the risk of developing heart disease. The study, reported on by Reuters and published in the journal Circulation, focused on individuals with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 (defined as "overweight")
For every seven pounds of extra weight on a man of average height (5 ft 10), the risk of heart failure rose by 11 percent over the course of the study.
Although it's long been known that obesity (a BMI over 30) is a risk factor for heart disease, this research indicates that being even 10 or 20 lbs overweight increases the likelihood of heart problems.
The good news, though, is that a small amount of exercise can vastly cut the ri
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Did you know? There is actually around 125 million twins and triplets in the world. Of that number, around 10 millions would be identical twins (monozygotics), around 0,2 percent of the world population.
No, the pictures you are bout to see in the following page are not of identical twins. But as you will see, these people looks a lot alike!
Wow! This is a great boxing punch picture, taken at the right time! We can clearly see the boxer that got the punch, and the referee that looks shocked by it. OK, I feel sorry for the poor man who got hurt, but he might have guessed he would get punches in the face while doing this sport, right? :D
This is a blog by Librarian who lives in New York. I really enjoy books, reading, and everything that has to do with books. I am not just interested in librarianship, I am also interested in all aspect of publishing and bookselling, include bookstores, book conventions, conferences, small presses, and many aspects of the publishing indusry. You might say, I am obsessed with books and everything that surrounds them. I don't just like your average everyday novel or bestseller. I also like graphic novels, coffee table books, science fiction books, science fiction art books, fantasy books, books on social networking, and books on clean technology. Sometimes I go off on a tangent like clean technology, green economics, and renewable energy. I am fascinated by the idea of a clean technology future and like to worldbuild what it might look like. I am not so much interested in the environment, but a future with clean air, clean technology, and a positive, healthy, vibrant world. I am strong be
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A Library clerk ('drone') writes about interesting, unusual and noteworthy books which have recently passed under my scanner. I don't so much 'review' books as 'present' them-- I tell you just enough to give you a sense of what the book is like and if it would interest you.
For all books discussed, I provide links to Worldcat, an international meta-search engine for public libraries so you can check it out as well as links to Powell's Bookstore in Portland Oregon if you would prefer to buy books from an ethical, responsible bookseller that genuinely cares about readers and authors.
There is also a lively comments section where you are encouraged to discuss the featured books or any ideas or concerns you have. And The Thin Red Line is a Do Follow blog-- if you leave a comment it will improve your stats.
Life means ever changing Growth......a continuous Journey......where every setting sun means a new beginning....where Time showers some Roses and some Thorns.
A few months ago, the Google Open Source team had an offsite in our Chicago office, and we were looking for something fun, social, and geeky for the teams to do during informal discussions. Before that, my colleague Aza had shown me a cool new thing that he was making called Bloxes -- interlocking cardboard boxes that were something like giant legos that connected on all six sides. They were actually invented by Aza's father, Jef Raskin (who started the Macintosh project at Apple), and were originally intended to be used to build flexible workspaces (like easily morphable cubicles). Having seen some samples of what you could build with them, I thought it would be fun to order a bunch of Bloxes for the team to build things out of while sitting around chatting and brainstorming.
We built a number of interesting things out of the Bloxes that week, but the real fun started after the offsite was over. Several of the Chicago engineers really took to the Bloxes; every week new, fun new sc
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