Last week, I gave a layman’s breakdown of dietary fat — that perennial bogeyman — and what types are out there and what you should and should not eat. Up this week: protein. I will first say this: if you eat meat and some occasional legumes, you’re probably getting adequate protein levels for a sedentary
Read More...For the past three (four?) decades, the macronutrient we were most often told to avoid is fat. Fat is joined by protein and carbohydrates to form the triumvirate of macronutrients you hear bandied about the media so often. Fat, a short form of ‘fatty acids’, is thought to make you fat, predicated on the fact that fat
Read More...Last Friday, I told you we’re going to do a multi-part series on taking control of your health. Today, we’re going to start discussing food, because your diet is the cornerstone, the 90% component, of any fitness effort. Yes, 90%. There are two parts to taking control of the food you eat: Deciding what foods
Read More...As I mentioned last Friday, today begins a multi-part series on taking control of your health and fitness. For many, this is a new year’s resolution, and it’s a good one. It’s also one that fails very frequently because people typically attack it by going to the gym with no real goals other than “weight
Read More...I’m going to send you into the weekend with my new iOS game obsession: Hundreds. It’s a wonderfully simple game in which you grow circles until their collective value reaches 100 — but you cannot let them touch anything else while they grow. Oh, and there are things (like razor circles) that will ‘pop’ your
Read More...As an Event Summit Track Sponsor, we are pleased to invite you to attend the first annual Oracle Value Chain Summit, February 4-6, 2013 in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar with the Value Chain Summit, that’s OK: it’s an expanded and refocused version of the popular Maintenance Summit from years past. Instead of just
Read More...Welcome back. I hope everyone had some relaxing time over the holidays. A ferocious number people head up their new year resolution lists with one thing: get in shape. For most, this means losing weight. This goal is atop resolution lists every year, and it’s also one of the least-achieved goals a person can set.
Read More...Today’s Friday post is going to be even more incoherent than most, but most of the time you guys trudge happily (?) along with me. I’m amazed by that. You guys are gluttons. Anyway, check this stuff out. Holiday Posting Schedule Until January, posts will be light here on MIPRO Unfiltered. We will be posting
Read More...Oracle’s PeopleSoft ALM, ESA, FMS, SCM, and SRM Release 9.2 Release Value Proposition In July of 2012, Oracle published their Release Value Proposition (RVP) for PeopleSoft FSCM release 9.2. You can download it here (as usual, you’ll need your My Oracle Support ID to access the document). Like we said about HCM 9.2, we anticipate the general
Read More...Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management and Enterprise Learning Management Release 9.2 In June of 2012, Oracle published their Release Value Proposition (RVP) for PeopleSoft HCM release 9.2. You can download it here (you’ll need your My Oracle Support ID to access/download the document). We anticipate the general release of PeopleSoft HCM V9.2 sometime in early 2013. Our
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