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What calories look like
One of the things people tend to have problems with, especially when eating out, is figuring out how many calories they're eating. Below are two pages that might help with visualizing calories.
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like?
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Drupal Fit Community Spotlight: Shannon Lucas
Shannon Lucas is a photographer and outdoorsman who works as a Drupal developer at Four Kitchens. He's a contributor to over a dozen projects on Drupal.org, including the requisite Block Class module and the popular 960 grid theme, Nitobe.
When he's not working or attending Drupal conferences, you can see Shannon on the road as he trains for the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic or in the skies over Seattle, Washington, as he jumps out of airplanes.
Christefano: Thanks for responding to my request for an interview. What's your personal definition of fitness?
Shannon Lucas: I tend to take a holistic view of fitness that includes mental health as well as physical health. In my mind, enjoying life, expanding your horizons, and having good friends is just as important as exercising and eating right.
C: What do you do to stay fit and how do you incorporate it into your day to day life?
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The Breakout Principle
So in no way is this a plug to buy this book but I think it goes handily with what this group is all about.
he Breakout Principle: How to Activate the Natural Trigger That Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity and Personal Well-Being by Herbert Benson is something I read years ago and speaks directyl to coders who are faced daily with productivity and complex solution oriented tasks.
In short it says get up and do something else for a minimum of 30 minutes...Hmmmm. What else is better than a jog or some wrist exercises to strengthen tendons to avoid carpel tunnel!
Read moreTime Out by Dejal
A big sorry for the Windows users, but this app is for the Mac platform. I can only imagine that there are other programs for the windows and others. Time Out by Dejal is donation based so there really is no excuse for at least trying it out.
Read moreFirst aid or CPR training at Drupalcon?
In addition to living a healthy lifestyle, another way to promote a healthy community is for people to receive first aid and CPR training.
Training classes for this could be easily arranged for the DrupalCons in North America if there was enough interest. Generally, these courses are not free, however, and they take the better part of a day. On-site courses are offered by the Red Cross and sometimes by local fire departments.
Who would be interested in that? Would you be willing to spend an evening during the conference doing it or stay an extra day?
Read moreCalorie Infographic
Weightloss.org has this new infographic on calories and portion sizes.
Read moreDrupal Fit Community Spotlight: Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert is the creator and project lead of the Drupal project. In recent years, he became the president of the Drupal Association in 2006 and co-founded Acquia in 2007. While Acquia remains his main focus, Dries donned the mask of the relentless crusader in the fight against spam and co-founded Mollom in 2008.
As if he weren't busy enough, Dries is a father of two, Stan and Axl, and recently moved with his wife, Karlijn, and children from his home city of Antwerp, Belgium, to Boston, Massachusetts.
After some chitchat about Boston, the thriving Greater Los Angeles Drupal community and his recent Drupal in a tablet world post, we jumped into the interview.
Christefano: Dries, I'm really grateful that you put time aside for this.
Dries Buytaert: Yeah, no problem. I definitely want to help with Drupal Fit.
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How are we doing? Post your ideas and requests for Drupal Fit here
It's been about 3 months since Drupal Fit started up and I'm wondering what people think about it. Oliver (oseldman) and I (christefano) would love your feedback. What has Drupal Fit done for you and has it met, exceeded or failed your expectations?
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The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
Thought I'd share this article: Phys Ed: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
Some excerpts:
The men who ate breakfast before exercising gained weight, too, although only about half as much as the control group. Like those sedentary big eaters, however, they had become more insulin-resistant and were storing a greater amount of fat in their muscles.
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