The Healthy Programmer (For Jan S Morrison) by Kutner, Joe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Healthy Programmer Disclaimer Table of Contents Early praise for The Healthy Programmer Foreword Acknowledgments Preface

Why Should I Read This Book? Who Should Read This Book? What’s in This Book? You Can’t Fool Nature What Does It Mean to Be Healthy?

Chapter 1: Making Changes

1.1 Unit-Testing Your Health 1.2 The Mind-Body Connection 1.3 An Iterative Approach to Health 1.4 The Science Behind Habits 1.5 Reprogramming Your Habits Change one habit 1.6 Retrospective

Chapter 2: Bootstrapping Your Health

2.1 Thinking on Your Feet 2.2 Walking Your Way to Better Health Buy a pedometer 2.3 The Time of Your Life Find your resting heart rate 2.4 Learning How to Walk 2.5 Getting Out the Door 2.6 Retrospective

Chapter 3: A Farewell to Chairs?

3.1 Sitting Is Considered Harmful 3.2 Standing Up for the Truth Check your blood pressure 3.3 Enhancing Your Workstation Enhance your workstation 3.4 Retrospective

Chapter 4: Agile Dieting

4.1 An Iterative Approach to Dieting 4.2 Balanced Nutrition Over Idiosyncratic Diets 4.3 Eating Your Brains Out 4.4 Counting Calories Over Following Trends Count your calories for one day 4.5 Adjusting Your Caloric Intake 4.6 Individual Tastes Over Predefined Menus 4.7 Retrospective

Chapter 5: Preventing Headaches and Eye Strain

5.1 Unit-Testing Your Vision Get an eye exam 5.2 Avoiding Computer Vision Syndrome 5.3 Avoiding Headache Triggers 5.4 Treating Headache Symptoms 5.5 Retrospective

Chapter 6: Preventing Back Pain

6.1 Unit-Testing Your Core Muscles Pass the Kraus-Weber Test 6.2 Understanding the Anatomy of the Back 6.3 Strengthening Your Powerhouse 6.4 Developing Better Ergonomics 6.5 Retrospective

Chapter 7: Preventing Wrist Pain

7.1 Unit-Testing Your Wrists Get a negative result on Phalen’s Test 7.2 Understanding the Causes of Wrist Pain 7.3 Using Exercise to Prevent Pain Take a yoga class 7.4 Reducing Tension with the Alexander Technique 7.5 Restricting Movement with Braces 7.6 Retrospective

Chapter 8: Making Exercise Pragmatic

8.1 Exercising Your Brain 8.2 Taking Healthy Pomodoro Breaks Do a Pomodoro workout 8.3 Keeping a Log 8.4 Playing Games with Your Health 8.5 Taking Your Fitness to the Web Sign up for an online fitness service 8.6 Retrospective

Chapter 9: Thinking Outside the Cube

9.1 Dosing on Vitamin D 9.2 Shedding Light on the Vitamin D Hype Learn about your family medical history 9.3 Boosting Your Immune System 9.4 Dealing with the Common Cold 9.5 Thinking Under the Trees Take an outdoor vacation 9.6 Retrospective

Chapter 10: Refactoring Your Fitness

10.1 Warming Up Take a rock-climbing class 10.2 Understanding the Dimensions of Fitness 10.3 Unit-Testing Your Fitness Reach the fiftieth percentile for the adult version of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test 10.4 Upgrading Your Hardware 10.5 Retrospective

Chapter 11: Teaming Up

11.1 Message-Passing Give a healthy lunch seminar 11.2 Investing in Your Health 11.3 Playing Well with Others Start or join a team with your coworkers 11.4 Building a Better Team 11.5 Retrospective

Chapter 12: Onward, Healthy Programmer

12.1 Continuous Improvement Set new goals 12.2 Creating Social Habits 12.3 The Joy of Being Healthy

Appendix 1: Goals Appendix 2: Examples

A2.1 Examples of Fruit/Vegetable Servings A2.2 Example Day

Appendix 3: Further Reading

A3.1 Books A3.2 Publications

Appendix 4: Bibliography