Stress

Harvard Medical School has derived a number of healthy practices for all of us to emulate. The following article will try to paraphrase the critical points on exercise, and why all of us should do it. And, for the ones who do it, perhaps they need to do more!

The Benefit of Fitness

Probably by now, everyone acknowledges the health benefits of exercise. Everyone should get at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily. Daily is not too much, as human beings we were designed to get a lot more exercise than just daily for 30 minutes. Benefits accrue quickly. Among them are:

A surprising finding about the "food-mood" connection has turned up in a recent (January, 2007) study.

The study focused on consumption of comfort foods, and we don't mean mother's home-made chicken soup. The researchers defined comfort food as "a quick indulgent snack that tastes good and gives...an immediate 'bump of euphoria'."

There are an increasing number of human "rage syndromes" out there related to the computer industry. First we had the more generic "Software Rage," described as "recurrent bouts of anger and frustration (the main symptoms, which go away only after the errant software does)," by one expert at ZDNet. This condition can become chronic.