Productivity expert Jason Womack is working on a project aimed at teenagers on the careers of tomorrow.  He asked me to contribute a few ideas, and he graciously agreed to let me turn it into an article for Lifehack.org.  From where I sit, there are a couple of very broad categories in which people can…

Trying to make 2009 your healthiest year to date?   I’ve compiled for you what I believe to be some of the best health conscience habits you can easily adopt. Habit 1:  Drink more water. Sure, I know about all the news reports that say it’s possible to drink too much water.  Surprisingly, this same story is…

Have we Been Missing the Point? For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence there’s still way more that we don’t know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think we’re more enlightened than ever but in many ways we’re still failing miserably when it comes to creating optimal health…

When I was very young—I can’t remember how old, but let’s call it six or seven—I was introduced to spreadsheets. It introduced me to the world of statistics, of using data to track progress and predict the future, to work towards tangible, measurable goals instead of lofty, obtuse and too-often forgotten resolutions that people so…

We all know that the vast majority of people who lose weight, regain it. And while we know that nobody who loses that weight actually wants to put it back on, somehow we’ve become really good at it! Some of us have spent a lifetime cycling between the fit and fat versions of…

We all try to live healthy lives. We try to exercise a little more, eat a little better. We try to find a balance between the time we spend at the computer, exercising our minds, and the time we spend moving around, exercising our bodies. Here’s the deal, though: it’s easy to add exercise to…

There are plenty of obvious topics for a blog focused on making your life easier: time management tips, career advice and even a little personal finance information. But cooking advice doesn’t immediately come to mind. Considering how much time we each spend daily on eating — let alone eating healthily and cheaply — I…

Medical News Today turn Mythbusters in this rundown of ten well known nutritional mottoes. Just because you hear it a hundred times doesn’t mean they’re entirely true. 10. Eating carbohydrates makes you fat. 9. Drink eight, 8-oz. glasses of water per day. 8. Brown grain products are whole grain products. 7. Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol. This…

I suppose this article is timely only for those in the hemisphere that is currently approaching winter. All you lucky ducks heading for bright lights and sunshine will just have to file this one away for a few months. For those of us moving into the long dark tea time of the soul known as winter…

The following numbers track the increase in obesity in children from 1963-2002 by percent. 1963-1965 4.2% 1976-1980 6.5% 1999-2002 25.8% Here are some more facts for adults. Many of the statistics come from U.S. data bases others are taken from the World Health Organization. 24.1% of men aged 20-34…

Reinhard Engels is a superhero. I first learned about him through his Shovelglove workout (which I think I first saw on Lifehacker.com). But Reinhard doesn’t just stop with a great exercise using a sledgehammer covered with a sweater (I’m not kidding). Instead, Reinhard has gone on to develop solutions to pretty much all of…

Gretchen Rubin from The Happiness Project is weighing in with her Wednesday Tips series. This week she’s here to help us eat better. Here’s a sampler platter: Paradoxically, studies show that over time, people who diet tend to gain more weight than people who don’t diet. Here are some non-dieting tips for eating better…