Browsing the archives for the Health tag

What’s your real age?

Ideas

Are you biologically younger, older, or the same age as your calendar age?

RealAge.com

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Michael Pollan on Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

Book, Ideas, Video

Do you have a passion for food?

What you eat and how you eat it has a huge impact on the quality of your life.

Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, discusses his sixty-four rules for eating in his book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.

“The markets are full of what I call edible food-like substances that you have to avoid,” says Michael Pollan. “So a lot of the rules are to help you, navigate that now very treacherous landscape of the American supermarket.”

A Short Interview

 

A Lecture (approx. 1 hour and 8 minutes)
This is a great lecture. Do yourself a favor, watch this video.

 

A Short Interview on ABC News

 

A Long Interview (approx. 59 minutes)

In this lecture Michael Pollan discusses the link between healthcare and diet, the dangers of processed foods, the power of the meat industry lobby, the “nutritional-industrial complex,” and his sixty-four rules for eating. (transcript of this interview)

Here are a few of Michael’s rules:
Rule 11: Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
Rule 19: If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
Rule 36: Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
Rule 39: Eat all the junk food you want, as long as you cook it yourself.
Rule 47: Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
Rule 58: Do all your eating at a table.
Rule 59: Try not to eat alone.

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Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

Ideas, Inspiration, TED Lectures, Video

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

About Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children

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Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live

Inspiration, TED Lectures, Video

Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it’s not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it “geo-medicine.”

Bill Davenhall wants to improve physicians’ diagnostic techniques by collecting each patient’s geographic and environmental data, and merging it with their medical records.

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Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe

Design, Inspiration, TED Lectures, Video

Reuse and recycle are good for most products but NOT syringes.

Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a low-cost syringe that can’t be used twice.

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Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

Audio, Robert Sapolsky, Stress

How does stress impact the quality of your life?

Download (from iTunes) a free podcast “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky.

For more information on stress from Robert Sapolsky, watch the National Geographics video “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” Available at Amazon.com and Netflix.

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