Historical errata for The Healthy Programmer

“you’re health will improve” => “your health will improve”

you’ll need to actively intervene if [you] want it to stick.

“biggest affect on your life” should probably be “biggest effect on your life”

Section 2.1 parenthetical “(and a Noble Prize was awarded)” - should be “Nobel Prize”

“Breath With Your Belly” should be “Breathe With Your Belly” .

5th paragraph: “it’s cache” should be “its cache”

last line before 1.5: “extended” should probably be “extend,” to match the tense of the previous sentence.

1.5, 2nd paragraph, last sentence: “have to changed” should be “have to be changed”

Photo shows right hand, text describes left hand - either the text or the picture is wrong

“Place your left hand and lower left arm on a flat surface with your palm up.”

Is this the same for left-handed and right-handed people?

line 3: “were n is greater” should be “where…”

line 3 from bottom: “dramatic affect” should be “dramatic effect”

2nd paragraph under 2.1, line 5: “in to” should be “into”

3rd paragraph under 2.1, line 1: “it’s” should be “its” (possessive)

Third paragraph under 2.1:
You are using the phrase “even more shocking” twice in this paragraph. I would suggest using a different phrase the second time. It’s not really that shocking. ;)

Last two paragraphs:
The causation between the physical exercise and the performance on tests is not well supported. Naperville is a very affluent suburb of Chicago, with a very high median family income compared to the rest of the country, so there are other factors that would support academic success. You don’t provide any data showing a change from lower test scores to higher; what were the test results before the change in the exercise program at the school?

I don’t mean to argue at all; I just don’t think you’re supporting your assertion, which seems to be that the exercise program is the primary cause of the high test scores.

Second to last paragraph, last line: “subjects who chose to sit.”
I think this is a misinterpretation of the study; it would be a very poorly designed study that allowed people to choose whether or not to exercise. (The original paper doesn’t explicitly state that the participants were randomly placed in the different groups, but that would be the standard way to test. It definitely doesn’t state that they could choose.)

2nd full paragraph, line 4: “nearly half the number of steps” would be better worded as “less than half,” since you wish to stress how small the first number is.

3D plots are hard to read. This one seems faulty, though; the numbers don’t match those in the text. For example, restaurant servers should be at 14,000 according to the text, but appears to be less than 10,000 in the plot.

Then lift your left foot slightly of[f] the ground and rotate counterclockwise from the knee such that you are drawing circles in the air with your heel.

“Don’t Fear the Weather”: I live in Wisconsin, and I’ve never heard of this tradition. Also, subzero temperatures are not common until well after Christmas.

Link to resource page - I cannot find the tools on medical history…

3rd paragraph, line 2: “… the answer can have a dramatic affect on your life.”

‘affect’ should be ‘effect’.

Paragraph # 6
Begins with “Being healthy isn’t ..”
“In the next three chapters will discuss the most common sources of pain for programmers:” should be “In the next three chapters, we’ll discuss the most common sources of pain for programmers:”

Paragraph # 3, second sentence.
“He design a set of exercises” - should be ‘designed’

Last paragraph, last line of the page:

“At first, you’ll won’t be able to raise” - should be “you won’t”

First line of the page:

“less effect at preventing” - should be “effective” instead of effect.

Last paragraph, second to last sentence:

“then you made need to undo that change” - should be ‘may’ instead of ‘made’

Last paragraph, second to last sentence:

“then you made need to undo that change” - should be ‘may’ instead of ‘made’

First sentence:

“the log book might be reveal the cause” - unnecessary ‘be’.

Second paragraph, second sentence:

“All groups started by doing a required set of twelve repetitions and where then give a rest.” - This sentence does not make sense.

Paragraph 4:

“like these in chapter Chapter 11” - extraneous/redundant ‘chapter’

Noble Prize should read “Nobel Prize”?

In the discussion for “Identify the Cue”, third sentence, there is a missing word “the” before the word “sound”. It should say, “The habit of putting on your seat belt is cued by the sound of starting a car.”.

In the third paragraph under the Goal 4 heading, third sentence, you have the word “you” instead of “your” before the word iPhone. It should say, “You can also buy a device that hooks up to your iPhone if you like tech gadgets.”

In the paragraph after Tip 4, first sentence, you have the word “a” instead of “an” before the word “existing”. It should say, “… you should follow whether you’re enhancing an existing desk, …”.

Repeated words in Figure 13 description: “A flowchart for eating consciously eatingflowchart
eatingconsciously”

“mediation” should be “meditation”

Provide metric volume equivalents for 8-ounce and 16-ounce glasses mentioned in chapter 5. (200ml and 500ml approx.)

Malformed description of Figure 29: “The median
nerve median nerveimage anatomymedian nerve carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)anatomy, on page 109.”

In the first paragraph, last sentence, “at the great outdoors” should be “as the great outdoors”.

Malformed description of Figure 34: “The log-book feature on the companion
iPhone app Healthy Programmer iPhone appexercise log toolsexercise logs
toolsHealthy Programmer iPhone app iPhone appslogs”

This is an error shown in the excerpt from the book (probably also exists in the printed/paper book edition) media.pragprog.com/titles/jkthp/breaks.pdf
last page in the “Table 4—An Example Pomodoro Workout” the Total value is set to 2.5 hours. If you sum up all the individual value you will get 115 minutes (approx 1.92 hours). Also on the page before in the final paragraph/last sentence it is also stated: “It includes four iterations with three breaks for a total of two and a half hours.”

In the second paragraph of the acknowledgments, the umlaut on Noteberg should be on the ‘o’ and not the first ‘e’.

End of third paragraph of “What does it mean to be healthy?”: “not nearly as hard a Twain envisioned”
Expected “as Twain”, was “a Twain”.

The BMR for the woman is probably wrong: 1,591 but should be 1290

Thus, a 30-year-old woman who weighs 125 pounds (57 kg) and is 65 inches
(165 cm) tall would have a BMR of 1,591 calories per day.

BMR = (10 * mass(kg)) + (6.25 * height(cm)) −(5 * age) −161
BMR = (10 * 57) + (6.25 * 165) - (5 * 30) - 161 = 1290,25