Category: Health
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The Best Diet Is The One You Can Stay On
Always great when something you have been saying for a long time is backed up by a study. What We Know (and Don’t Know) About How to Lose Weight in the NY Times offers says it all: The best diet is the one you can stick to.
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Amazing Nutrition Video
Dr. Terry Wahls was stricken with MS and her body and health went into rapid decline. She then did a lot of research and decided to try changing her diet. She had amazing results, which she describes in this video called Minding Your Mitochondria. Here is the video.
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Man’s Best Friend or Colonoscopy?
Sounds crazy, I know, but The Epoch Times refers to a recent report in a medical journal that in fact a dog can tell when a colonoscopy is required. Read about it here.
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One Company Takes the Right Ap…
One Company Takes the Right Approach to Health Care – http://ping.fm/MFiwK
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One Company Takes the Right Approach to Health Care
Just catching up on my reading and I found this great Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal by the CEO of SafeWay. Basically he gives you all the great ideas that were implemented at his company to reduce costs and improve the health of his employees. Wish we had more companies take this approach.
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Maybe the real problem with th…
Maybe the real problem with the US Healthcare system is the American Diet? http://tinyurl.com/ndkbos
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Is the American Diet the Real Problem with Healthcare?
Here is a very interesting article by Michael Pollan of the New York Times discussing that the real issue with the US healthcare system is the American diet. He makes some excellent points. It would be very interesting to see if pressure to change the average American diet grows quickly once health insurance companies must provide…
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End of Life Decisions
In her Wall Street Journal article “Preparing for the Final Hours”, Melinda Beck discusses end of life decisions and how to prepare for them. “Forget about the health-reform debate for the moment. Should you have a living will specifying the kind of care you’d want at the end of life if you couldn’t speak for…
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How To Achieve Happiness
In these difficult times, I think its a good idea to revisit the topic of Happiness. What makes us happy? What can we do to become happier? Is it impossible given what is going on these days? I found this really good article at one of my favorite blogs, Get Rich Slowly. Its a simple…
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Is Prostate Cancer Screening A Good Thing?
An article in the New York Times states that a study of 77,000 American men found that those who received annual PSA blood tests for prostate cancer did not have a reduced rate of death. Combined with a European study, the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is now being questioned as an effective test for men. …