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Katy Bowman: Move Your DNA (2014) 4 stars

Move Your DNA

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"In Move Your DNA, biomechanist Katy Bowman explains our deep need for movement - right down to the cellular level. She also addresses up-to-the-minute questions, including : Is sitting really the new smoking? Are standing workstations helpful or harmful? What's the safest way to move toward minimal shoes? Are Kegels …

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008) 3 stars

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans against their damaging psychological traits (inertia, bounded rationality, undue influence) by exploiting those habits to nudge people into making better choices.