There are many things to consider when choosing a family doctor, pediatricians, or dentists for your family’s health needs. The first is obviously whether or not your insurance will cover their services but besides that, there are several things you should be asking yourself. If you have a young family and you’re doing this for…
Take Wiki Health Information Seriously…Seriously…
Whether or not you can come to trust free volunteer-edited online encyclopedias for real world health information, websites like Wikipedia are a gold mine of exciting yet easily digestible articles relating to human health. If there’s a malady, medical phenomenon, or treatment technique, there’s undoubtedly a Wikipedia article on it. Simply browsing is enough to…
Rule 7- Respect Others
There are those who think that respect comes from fear. The truth is that fear comes from fear and nothing else. The only true way to get respect from those around you is to show them respect even if you have to do it first. You’ll be surprised how easy and quickly you can turn…
Rule 6- Love Your Children
I have seen so much suffering from people who have turned to addictions and crime that I had to wonder why. The only reason I can come up with is that these are people who never really felt loved, cherished, or important, especially by their parent or parents. Be glad to see the kids when…
Rule 5- Set Goals
Most of us know the awful feelings that depression can lead to. If we’re lucky we get over it quickly, if not we don’t even see a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. We need to have a reason to get out of bed. Believe it or not we can reverse the…
Rule 4-Food is Fuel
Try to think of food as fuel more than entertainment. I love food and everything about it. I love to plan it, buy it, store it, cook it and yes finally to eat it. In our family growing up I learned that food went along with feelings of celebration and family love and closeness. Now…
Rule 3-Move More
Perhaps the best thing we can do for our bodies health is to get exercise, move more. Recent studies have suggested that even sitting and working in our chairs is bad for our health. Try to get up for a couple minutes every hour and move, stretch, walk to get a glass of water or…
Rule 2- Avoid Stress
Many illnesses can be traced to stress. Yet most of us feel that we’re not being taken seriously when our doctors suggest that our illnesses are related to or triggered by stress. We all think we’re much stronger than that and want to blame some kind of outside agent for our aches, pains, and problems….
Rule 1
Understand and appreciate what your body does for you every second of your life. It’s really quite remarkable how your body produces energy, protects you from infections and so on. I would recommend that you read part of the series ” Cosmos ” written by the late Cart Sagan. He’s got a chapter in the…
Secrets For a Long, Happy, and Healthy Life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what constitutes a long, happy, and healthy life. I’ve come up with some simple obvious answers. We all know them already but we don’t live by them or follow them. Some of us aspire to and really want to and try, yet we continue to be our own…