crontab your excesses:

* 20 * * * root sleep 1m; xmessage halt ; halt

Particularly not a "Linux" questions web site. It's not a medical website, even, and some of us may have odd beliefs that are completely incorrect, including me.

Health is of interest for everyone. It's is of prior importance, particularly for stressfull jobs.

20 years ago, companies did not much care about it. Nowadays companies spend a lot of money to keep their employees healthy. Actually... companies have no other choices.

Interest, yes. Reliable information, no.

To add info to present thread.

1) Have atleast 1.5 - 2 litres of water which includes that present in food.

2) 10-30% of daily energy should come from fat. And the fat you eat should have 80 % of PUFA (Poly unsaturated fatty acids). Rest may be (MUFA or Saturated fats).
MUFA (Is mono unsaturated fatty acids) present in good quantity in olive oils. EFA (Essential Fatty Acids) are linoleic acid and linolenic acid plus others which can't be synthesized by human body. Canola(Rape) and mustard ( and also flax) seed oils have high percentage of linolenic acid which are not present in any other oil rich foods. Fish oil are good in arachidonic acid, eucasapentonoic acid which are not produced by human body in adequate amounts but are required in good amounts.

Contrary to what major medical textbooks say recent news article say that high fat intake has no relation to health related bad effects.

Another important thing to do, to de-stress your workplace, is to increase the level of IT project management that takes place on a routine basis. No, I'm not talking about "stand-up comedy" or other "silver bullet methodologies." I'm talking about organizing and planning the work, getting meaningful estimates by which to manage expectations, so that a game of table tennis doesn't turn into that famous scene from Captain Kangaroo. Many "shops" have no formal process for managing requirements, schedules, testing/validation, and/or change. The stress level is that of an overcrowded lifeboat, and the only way to change that is either to change the process, or get the hell out of the boat.

You MUST use the GTD to classify/tidy your to-do-list. Buy an old good paper QuoVadis to serously Plan!


However, even with lot of stress, you body shall be trained. Do you believe really in the effect of the physical exercises on the blood pressure itself?
Imagine... Do the test during one month:
You decide to monitor it over one month. Get up daily in the morning and practice 1hour of physical activity (moderate/medium, sufficiently). You may monitor/test/log your blood pressure just before going to bed. Do you believe that if you measure daily the blood pressure that it will decrease on average?
- I dont believe that it will change at all.

Anyone know the process number of stress, so I can run the kill command?

This maybe - too much working (dev)?
and go to walk

Please consider making this thread a sticky.

OK

Make sure you spend optimal amount of time in natural light.

Why - I find them highly entertaining.
Especially in the Slackware forum ...

As for stress, just get off your arse, and take the dog for a walk. Easy fixed ...

Balance your food and exercise.

A few years ago I reduced alcoholic consumption from 30/week to 4/week. Banned potato chips. Increased daily vegetable consumption to 250 grams/day. Three or four pieces of fruit daily, including apple, papaya, mango, banana or avocado.

I did not ban any specific food or substance. I eat gluten, sugar and lactose and plenty of salt. In the weekends I might eat pizza, french fries and cake and drink beer or wine.

I increased aerobic exercising to 6-10 hours a week, during 6 days a week, depending on my agenda. I swim, ride bicycle and run. On some days I exercise twice a day. One day of full rest for recovery and fun.

This are the results:
- Weight dropped from 89 kilos to 67 kilos.
- Blood pressure dropped from 140/80 to 115/65

Oh, and I am 57 years old.

jlinkels

jlinkels: Nice to know your improvement.

I believe that it is not the food but rather
1) exercises daily or regularly
2) getting sleep earlier
3) and less coffee, more tea and stress at work, no?