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It’s Time To Reduce Stress

It’s early October, soon it will be Halloween then Thanksgiving and then, oh my god, Christmas. I mean, oh my God. Sorry. Don’t want to remove the religion out of the occasion. And if Christmas is coming can Easter be far behind! Everything is happening so fast that there hardly seems to be any time […]

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Mental Health Gets Parity

It’s taken years longer than it should have but a great injustice has just been put right. For years, millions of Americans were denied health coverage simply because the source of their illness was in the wrong part of their body.
Can you imagine breaking your left arm and going in to see the doctor only […]

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Man, give it a rest!

Do you feel as stressed as I do?  Gosh, I’m running on empty from all this bad news. As I write this I’m hearing “The economy is at risk, America is at risk, our retirement is at risk!”  …and in other news.
As Kevin would say, “Blimey! What the heck is going on!”  Financial Markets are […]

Monday, October 6th, 2008

If Summer Be Over Can Sniffles Be Far Away

You know that as the days get shorter and the Presidential debates get longer that can mean only one thing. Flu season is on the way. The only other thing you need to ask, is are you ready?
Now, I’m not one to get a flu shot. I have a kind of an aversion to taking […]

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

An Active City

Leading a healthy, active lifestyle isn’t easy. You need a lot of different things to work in your favor to succeed, from easy and affordable access to places where you can workout, to friends or family who support you. On Saturday I realized that if you wanted to choose a city that is almost perfect […]

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Fun Fair and other Amusements!

On Sunday Kevin and I went to an Amusement Park, he calls it a Fun Fair.  I like the name Fun Fair because that’s just what it is.  Fun, Fun, Fun!  We didn’t have children with us so we were  unencumbered by the wants and needs of little ones who  want and need stuff.  We […]

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Getting Back to Basics

A few years ago, when I was working as a producer in TV, doing health and medical news, my reporter and I used to joke that our health segment every day could consist of her sitting on the set and saying “eat right, exercise regularly, see you tomorrow.” That’s because most of the issues and […]

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Some Soothing Thoughts to Take into the Weekend

It’s been a long week hasn’t it with nothing but grim news about financial meltdowns and declarations that things have not been this bad since the Great Depression. Banks seem to be going belly up all around us and no one seems to be able to agree on what to do. No wonder people are […]

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Finally, the New York Times caught up with us!

Hey everybody, did you read the Well in the New York Times lately?  They must have read some excerpts from Healthy and Simple because they have just reported that people are getting on the bandwagon of healthy eating by eating “real” food!  It’s called positive eating!  Well, I could have told you that!  …and I […]

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Being There, or Thereabouts!

I was at a management conference the other day. There were several hundred people there but to be honest half of them were only there part of the time. They were constantly checking their Crackberrys, emailing, texting and doing anything but listening, so that although they were there, they weren’t truly present. Their bodies were in […]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008