Tag Archives | health

Fear

Fear.  Does it par­a­lyze you or push you for­ward? For the last few months I have been prepar­ing to run my first marathon.  Two weeks ago, I had ter­ri­ble train­ing run.  I was at mile 10 of 16, and I felt just plain bad.  I was hot, tired, thirsty, and just plain spent.  In my […]

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Flaxination

This year I have been try­ing to pay a lit­tle more atten­tion to my health.  I now find myself exer­cis­ing much more, try­ing to get a lit­tle more sleep, and pay­ing more atten­tion to the things that I eat and drink every day.  As part of this effort to live bet­ter, I have been trying […]

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2010 by the Numbers

One of the best things I dis­cov­ered in 2009 was Nike+. The abil­ity of this tool to track and then present data about my run­ning thor­oughly cap­ti­vates me.   It actu­ally makes run­ning inter­est­ing. How far? How fast? How often? How can I do bet­ter?  Every time I run, Nike+ is adding insight to all […]

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Enjoy the Ride

My brother in law Geoff is a cycling enthu­si­ast — a self described Crank Addict.  He is also a sci­en­tist with a dis­dain for sense­less human con­sump­tion and lazi­ness.  So, when I was lis­ten­ing to a story on NPR’s Morn­ing Edi­tion about Cargo Bikes, I could not resist blog­ging about it for Geoff and others. […]

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Speak Up for Autism Votes in Ohio

My friend Jon Brooks, who is the par­ent of an autis­tic child, an autism reform advo­cate, and who founded and helps to run Roads to Recov­ery — a par­ent founded, 501 © (3) non profit orga­ni­za­tion serv­ing fam­i­lies in the greater Day­ton area who face autism spec­trum dis­or­ders — recently sent me a link to the […]

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Re-Run

Back in the sum­mer of 2006, I wrote this post about a run­ning pro­gram that I was start­ing: Run Like Hell, Walk Like Hell…repeat | davide­bow­man Well, I man­aged to com­plete the 1 month pro­gram, but alas, my run­ning ended shortly there­after. I am happy to report that I am back at it again.  I […]

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User Generated Health Care

I have an idea that would help improve the health care sys­tem.  This idea would dra­mat­i­cally speed the process of diag­no­sis, reduce unnec­es­sary test­ing, more quickly iden­tify effec­tive courses of treat­ment and rad­i­cally reduce the costs asso­ci­ated with the entirety of it all.   I call it User Gen­er­ated Health Care.  The idea is simple […]

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