Posts Tagged ‘information’

“You have a piss-poor attitude.”

It’s an old country expression–one that will not please my mother when she discovers I’ve used it. But the thing about old country expressions is they’re quite … expressive. When you hear that phrase, you have no trouble conjuring an image of the attitude in question or remembering the last time you felt that way.

This is not the attitude to win you an affectionate squeeze from your sweetie, a gold star from your boss, or really great service at your favorite restaurant.

On the other hand, it has its good points.

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Are you a menace to society? If you didn’t get enough sleep last night but still got behind the wheel this morning, the answer is yes.

According to a recent study sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), nearly two million people have had accidents or near misses due to driving while drowsy. More than half those polled said they’d driven while overly tired during the year and nearly 30 percent said they did so at least once a month.

Yikes!

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This holiday season like every other, I will walk into my sister-in-law’s kitchen. I will see the enemy. And the enemy will be mine.

Unfortunately, the enemy is a cookie—and it has friends.

Every year, my sister-in-law goes to a small local bakery and buys Christmas cookies I seem to find irresistible. Why oh why can’t she just buy Oreos? I can resist Oreos. But just because I indulge in some of these lovely bakery treats doesn’t mean they have to immediately attach themselves to my buttocks.

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According to Carol L. Tilley, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, comic books are just as valuable to children as any other form of literature. And in research recently published in School Library Monthly, the professor says it’s about time this underrated yet sophisticated type of reading material got a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t.

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Researchers in the sleep medicine division at Harvard Medical School have found that getting adequate sleep seems to offset the effects of workplace stress and other factors when it comes to determining healthy food choices.

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You probably know that aerobic training burns fat and resistance training builds muscle and helps sculpt the body. But if you want to lose weight, you have to rev up your metabolism so that it burns extra calories even when you’re not doing anything more strenuous than scanning through the TV channels with your remote. And research shows the best way to do that is by lifting weights.

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What’s more essential to being an effective leader, time or money? According to the money people, the answer is time.

In a recent survey of accountants by Ajilon Finance and the Institute of Management Accountants, 29 percent of respondents said what leaders most need to be effective in their positions is more time. Only 14 percent said leaders need more money.

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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization recently published the results of the first study to estimate the productivity loss from uncorrected refractive error—common vision problems that can easily be treated with eyeglasses, contact lenses, or laser surgery. But left untreated, these simple challenges can lead to virtual blindness for sufferers. And the researchers who conducted the study estimate these vision issues cost the world at least $269 billion in lost productivity each year.

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Bryant died of a heart attack 28 days later, just one day after passing a routine checkup.

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