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Taking Control of Your Health: The Skinny on Exercise

Posts in the Taking Control of Your Health series thus far: Taking Control of Your Health and Fitness Bloodwork as Your State of the Union Understanding What ‘Real Food’ Is, Part 1 What Are Fats Besides a Bad Word? Understanding Proteins Understanding Carbohydrates Controlling Stress When It Comes to Health & Fitness, Tracking is Knowing The

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Tracking is Knowing: The Fitbit

Last week we talked about the notion of tracking is knowing as it relates to understanding the food you eat (in terms of caloric value and macronutrient breakdown). As I said, it’s probably the biggest step you can take to getting a handle on your health and fitness, because very few people understand how much

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Google Glass

Check out Google Glass. It’s the next big thing: wearable, context-aware computing. Google’s doing this with Glass, Apple is chasing the same goal with its rumored smartwatch. This is quite literally the next web, surpassing the semantic web. It’s contextual computing, and everything’s headed here. If post-PC computing (iPads, tablets) was the last gold rush,

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When It Comes to Health and Fitness, Tracking Is Knowing

The Taking Control of Your Health series thus far, in case you missed earlier posts: The First Step Towards Better Health: Bloodwork as Your State of the Union Understanding What ‘Real Food’ Is, Part I Understanding Food: What Are Fats Besides a Bad Word? Understanding Food: Proteins Understanding Food: Carbohydrates Controlling Stress: The Part of

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Oracle’s PeopleSoft Named Best in KLAS for Financials/ERP Software in Healthcare for the Second Year in a Row

From Marketwire: For the second year in a row, KLAS has named Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials best Financials/ERP software in its “2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services” report(i). The annual report, now in its 15th year, ranks the best-performing healthcare IT vendors in nearly 100 market segments based on ratings from nearly 20,000 interviews

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Numberphile

I wasted so, so much time with this over the weekend. It’s a bunch of videos about math and numbers that frequently careen into popular geek culture. So well done. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Just click on one of the doodles and grab a coffee. Before you know it, you’ll be late for your

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Understanding Food: Carbohydrates

Ah, carbohydrates. The new bad guy, right? The one who makes you decline those buttery dinner rolls and carrot cake? Well, yes. Bad guys. Sort of. Not all the time. Depends on you, your metabolism and activity level. First, let’s explain what carbs are. In essence, they’re sugars, and sugars have the effect of raising

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