Antiquated thinking posits that you shouldn’t mix work and play. But the truth is, your personal interests have a lot to do with your success, particularly if you’re in an idea-centric field — which means just about every job that has problems which require creative thinking.

It’s no coincidence some of the most profound and popular scientists are also musicians: Albert Einstein played the violin. Numerous bios of Steve Jobs cite his schooling in calligraphy as a driving factor for why the early Mac computers were so far ahead in terms of graphics. Think about what skills you have that aren’t officially job responsibilities, but get applied nonetheless.

Do this fun exercise:

1. On the left-hand side of a piece of paper, write a list of your favorite career moments
2. Beside it on the right, write a list of your hobbies and activities off the job
3. Draw circles around something in the left column that happened because of something on the right, and join them with a line

The connections are now much clearer. By recognizing how various parts of you falsely appear miles apart but are actually adjacent in their applicability, you stand a much higher chance of succeeding at what’s important.

The obesity rate in the U.S. has more than tripled among 6 to 11-year-olds over the past three decades. A new study indicates that cutting down on REM sleep, a deep restorative form of rest, is associated with obesity among teens and children.

In the study, 335 children and teens were observed in a sleep clinic during three consecutive nights. The children who slept the least were the most likely to be overweight, and the less REM sleep they got, the greater the likelihood of obesity.

It could be that sleep loss changes the hormone levels in the body that may impact how much a person eats during the waking hours. Exhaustion may also influence levels of exercise.

Researchers at the Salk Institute in San Diego have found two drugs that did wonders for the athletic endurance of “couch potato” mice. One drug, known as Aicar, increased the mice’s endurance on a treadmill by 44 percent after just four weeks of treatment. A second drug, GW1516, increased endurance by 75 percent, but had to be combined with exercise to have any effect.

The chemicals involved are already available, and athletes are already asking about whether they work on humans.

Dr. Richard N. Bergman, an expert on obesity and diabetes at the University of Southern California, worried that the drugs might prove to have serious side effects. However, he acknowledged that if they are safe, they could become widely used.

The drugs activate at least one of the chemical pathways triggered by resveratrol, a substance that also resulted in increased endurance in mice. Large doses of resveratrol can allow mice to run twice as far as usual on a treadmill before collapsing.

But you’re not alone in your Brian littrell and baylee. Independence Health Director Larry Jones has issued a Hot Weather Health Advisory today for Independence. I’ve noticed that we seem to think the more important something is, the more complicated the solution must be. You don’t need to be marathon fit to keep moving. Housework, washing the car and shopping can be dawson exercise. World Bank should improve environmental record, review says. Two clues that you may need to drink more are thir

Women who want to lose weight and keep it off need to exercise for almost an hour, five days a week, according to a new study.

Researchers found that a the 55-minute regime was the minimum needed to maintain a 10 percent drop in weight. Only a quarter of the 200 women involved in the study managed to lose this amount.

Research points to a combination of exercise and calorie control as having the best chance of success in weight loss. This latest research once again confirms that plenty of exercise is a key ingredient.