Posts Tagged ‘systems’
35,000 decisions
The decision to be healthy is not just one decision. We make roughly 35,000 decisions per day and each of them is an opportunity to influence health for better or worse. There is variability is the number of decisions among people of course. For example, a child’s choice count is perhaps closer to 3,000. Regardless,…
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Conducting health
The conductor of an orchestra is typically not as skilled at playing the violin as the 1st chair violinist. The conductor is the expert at directing the performance of the orchestra as a whole. She knows when the violin should come in and fade out. She recognizes when an on beat quaver pattern from the…
Read MoreYour body is a machine, kinda.
Muscles are motors. Tendons are ropes. Bones are levers. Joint capsules are feedback receptors. Pull here. That moves there. But not really. The brain is a computer. The nerves are wires. The skull and spinal cord are conduits. Information goes up. Algorithmic processing occurs. Results are determined. Decisions are made. Signals for action are sent…
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