Part of this is about eating bad food. The rest is about living a poor life. The effect that mindset has on you is hard to really understand unless you've lived it. This article does a good job at explaining.
A great idea from Bryan Alvarez:
It would be great if the data collected from routine surgeries like this could be uploaded into the atlas anonymously. It would help fill it up very quickly!
Inside the mouth of every child is a terrifying double row of teeth. Not that you'd ever know it - muscle, skin and bone prevent most of us from ever catching a glimpse of this extra dentition. Here's your chance to get a close-up look at what lies beyond the gum line.
About 400 people interested in serious self-tracking meet for the inaugural Quantified Self conference in May this year. Self-tracking means monitoring quantities like your weight, sleep, location, messages, genes, body chemistry, performance, productivity, or any other of a thousand metrics. Self-trackers arrived from all over the world to share and explore the whys and hows of self-tracking.
Our bodies need about two litres of fluids per day, not two litres of water specifically. In an Editorial in the June issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Spero Tsindos from La Trobe University, examined why we consume so much water.
L'Ecorché is a groundbreaking, intuitive tool developed by artists, for artists to reference anatomy. It's not a book, it's not a sculpture. It's an elegant and painstakingly-detailed fusion of the two that takes the best of both and brings them into a whole new medium for learning.
Like fitbit. This is a wearable bit of kit that can track your daily habits. It can even remind you to be active or wake you up at the right part of your sleep cycle.
Complements an iphone app. Hopefully and android one will come along soon. Released in the US on november 6 2011. Not sure when it will reach the uk.