Good summary piece about the lobbyist-driven changes to the school lunch program.

Fantastic article on the downsides to not getting enough sleep.

One take on what standing while working can do for you.

Turns out that you really do need 8 hours of sleep per night.

Dave Winer writes about why health insurance is so important.

Dan Benjamin posts his primer links on the paleo diet. Sounds interesting.

Dan Benjamin's tips for starting a regular meditation practice.

McDonald’s has introduced oatmeal at their “restaurants” now. Too bad it isn’t actually oatmeal and includes more calories than a hamburger.

Running tips for not running heel first.

"Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some of the world’s top trainers — the author discovered the secrets to real health."

Sweet WiFi enabled health products.

Tim Ferriss' tips for kettlebell workouts.

An interview with Oliver Sacks about prosopagnosia, face-blindness, and his upcoming book.

Nifty utility to track sleep, exercise, and more.

"As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years—some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today—efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the condition in childhood. But children with autism will become adults with autism, some 500,000 of them in this decade alone. What then? Meet Donald Gray Triplett, 77, of Forest, Mississippi. He was the first person ever diagnosed with autism. And his long, happy, surprising life may hold some answers."

"Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA."

How food, on a chemical level, affects your brain activity.

Alex Payne's tips on productivity and health at a startup.

Paul Stamatiou's tips for staying healthy while working on a startup.

Great story about everything Sergey Brin is funding to help solve the riddle of Parkinson's. The efforts are taking a very data-driven approach.

A background on some of what is causing a slowdown in the number of new drugs released to market every year.

America faces some difficult decisions going forward if it is to lessen the prevalence of obesity.

Computers are having various effects on our brains and neurological activity. It's still early, but watching how these effects strengthen (or not) will be interesting.

The immense potential of a hyper-connected health system.