{"id":3302,"date":"2013-03-12T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:25:03","slug":"do-you-really-need-to-know-how-frequently-you-fill-in-the-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/03\/12\/do-you-really-need-to-know-how-frequently-you-fill-in-the-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you really need to know how frequently you&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/03\/measuringdevices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3303\" title=\"measuringdevices\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2013\/03\/measuringdevices.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Curmudgeon alert: self-help devices, books, seminars that are used to examine the most trivial details of our lives drive me into cranky mode. Today on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2013\/03\/12\/174058272\/self-tracking-apps-to-help-you-quantify-yourself\"> NPR&#8217;s business report<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/quantifiedself.com\/\">Quantified Self<\/a> movement, including devices to measure the minutea of our daily physical lives.<\/p>\n<p>Two reactions:<\/p>\n<p>1. My mother, Henrietta, when asked about her secrets for living a long, healthy life, always said: &#8220;moderation in food and drink, exercise, don&#8217;t smoke&#8230;and have some fun.&#8221; Pretty simple. She lived in her own home, unassisted, to the age of 92.<\/p>\n<p>2. Some of the money and attention spent on self-help programs of whatever kind might be more productively directed toward improving society and the world around us. (Check out Julie Grant&#8217;s story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/21601\/20130312\/families-worried-about-service-cuts-for-developmentally-disabled\">cuts to programs for the developmentally disabled.<\/a> We could probably all improve our own mental and physical health by volunteering at programs like these that are facing drastic cuts.)<\/p>\n<p>All of this dovetails with NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s plan to cut the size of sugary drinks available for sale within the city limits. Really? People don&#8217;t understand that 16 ounces of soda pop is less fattening than 32 ounces&#8230;and that zero ounces is best of all?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have at me, folks.\u00a0<\/strong>(Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to go measure&#8230;well, none of your business.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curmudgeon alert: self-help devices, books, seminars that are used to examine the most trivial details [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4803,11138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}