Healthy Developer
PechaKucha Ruby Underground June
2013
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What is Health?
• Not being in pain
• Not being sad
• Not being restrained
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Life
• Being able to THINK
• Being able to be HAPPY
• Live your potential
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Professionally
• Being able to concentrate
• Being able to be creative
• Being able to learn
• Being able to remember
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Unhealthy?
• Back Pain
• Wrist Pain
• Headache
• Sore Eyes
• Overweight
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Also Unhealthy
• Can’t Concentrate
• Don’t sleep
• Stress
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On Habits
• Trigger
• Routine
• Reward
• ---> It’s EASY
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Breaking Habits
• Understand the structure
• Change the trigger or the reward
• Talk about it
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Everything is Personal
• One ring to rule them all?
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Weight
• Health risks
• Decrease in concentration
• Learn your habits and break them
• Prepare alternatives
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Nutrition
• Harder to concentrate
• Harder to sleep (and stay awake)
• Change bad foods
• Less sugars, less processed food
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Sport
• Is not a defense against all evil
• Is good fighting weight and sleep
• 3 times a week is usually enough
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Sitting
• Dangerous to everyone
• Move along - every 20 minutes
• Stand
• Standing Desk
• Meetings
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Eyes
• Screen / Room brightness
• Distance from eyes
• Blink
• Stare
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Sleep
• Health risks
• Decreased concentration and
creativity
• Learn the pattern
• Relax your body 2 hours before
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Headaches
• Eyes, Sleep, Stress
• From annoyance to life threatening
• Pay attention to screen, eyes
• Glasses?
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Back Pain
• Usually lower back
• Weakness / Stiffness
• Adjust sitting, move, stretch
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Wrist Pain
• 10% of the populations
• We are not alone - music to our ears
• Pay attention - find when it starts
• Stretch
• See a doctor!
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Nutrition Tips
• No refined sugars
• Stay away from non fat fast solutions
• Change habits
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Exercise Tips
• Walk briskly 20 minutes 3 times a
week
• Walk around every 20 minutes
• Ask a friend to join
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