“Make love, not war.” Remember that one? I was around when it was a popular saying. Do these sound familiar: Fighting the flu Battling cancer Struggling with pain? “Moving away from images of war or seeing our bodies as a battlefield can open up a new narrative for health.” This from Health Writer Anna Bowness-Park
Health blogger Joel Magnes, writing in The Eden Prairie News in Minnesota, draws lessons from the documentary, “Escape Fire – the fight to rescue American healthcare” in discussing patient choice. He shares how he once made a choice that at the time was a very different one for him – a spiritual approach involving prayer. It helped, and
Sounds almost a little counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? But read on. As one who has been to Venice and also one who enjoys Rick Steves’ travel programs, the lead paragraph in a recent Vancouver Sun article by Health Writer Anna Bowness-Park drew a vivid word picture for me: “On a recent Rick Steves travel program, Steves
That’s right. Or, as Health Writer Bob Clark in Florida puts it, in a recent Tampa Bay Times article, “Don’t manage anger — get rid of it”. Clark points out: “studies show that somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians result from stress-related disorders.” And doesn’t it make sense
Americans constitute only 4.6% of the world’s population, yet consume 80% of all opioids (painkillers).¹ This statistic, which appeared in the media again this week, again caught my attention. It brought to mind this observation from Escape Fire (which aired on CNN): “… the answers are not in a sack of pills.” Bill Scott in Washington State,
She “was no ordinary woman. Behind her Victorian-era velvet and lace dress was a 21st century power suit.” March is Women’s History Month. And so, appropriately, Ingrid Peschke, a regular health blogger on the Huffington Post, “highlights an often overlooked 19th century woman for her significant contributions to religion and health.” Peschke continues, “Her strength of character,
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are drawing to a close. Here are three articles by colleagues of mine that look at achieving better health through the lens of Olympic ideals, athletes and their remarkable efforts. There’s a common thread running throughout these articles. See if you can identify what that is. 1. Can
February is American Heart Month and the month with Valentine’s Day. With that clearly in mind, comes a wonderful guest post on my colleague Kate Johnson’s Health Blog in Westminster Patch in Maryland earlier this week by Pamela Savage, who is in the healing practice of Christian Science. In her article entitled, “When heart is
This past weekend, Karly Shorr – who not so long ago was a student at our own Milford High School here in Milford, Michigan – placed 6th in Slopestyle Snowboarding. On Twitter, she tweeted: “6th place at the Olympics… Not too shabby for a 19 year old. Could not be more stoked…” It’s inspiring to see athletes
Consider this: “If scientists suddenly discovered a drug that was as powerful as love in creating health, it would be heralded as a medical breakthrough and marketed overnight – especially if it had as few side effects and was as inexpensive as love.” This insight is from Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D. in his book, Healing Words. We