Getting Healthy – A Simple Way Now that “Healthy Without Health Insurance” is out on Kindle, people keep asking me what it’s about. I tell them it’s about getting healthy simply, cheaply, and effectively. I also tell them it has a new paradigm for real health and well-being – that if you give your body […]
What’s healthy? (5/3/12)
Health Versus Health Care Talk to Americans about health and the topic generally switches—immediately—to health care. It makes sense. Health care is our Titanic. In what other country do you spend 18% of your total economy on a crazy, dysfunctional system which ranks you 50th in the world for lifespan (according to the CIA). In the […]
“This is ridiculous” – hospital costs and you (4/30/12)
The Surreal Becomes Real When it comes to American health care, the impossible often transforms into the routine. Add another feature to the list —hospital costs.As I write in my new book “Healthy Without Health Insurance,” people look at their medical/hospital bills and notice “an extra zero. Make that two zeroes.”Consider appendectomies. As reported by […]
Do clothes make the brain? (4/18/12)
Seeing Behind Clothes Do the clothes you wear change how your brain processes information? Yes. But can the same suit of clothes, given a different occupational meaning, change the whole process of focus and how you see the world? Yes again. Clothes Make the Man Mark Twain’s statement that “clothes make the man” distills what […]
Are we fatter than we think? (4/10/12)
What is Obesity? A recent study in PL0S 1, an online journal of medicine, argues that Americans are far more obese than present standards of obesity, defined by body mass index, imply. In a study of 9000 patients in a New York private practice, at least 39% of those classified as overweight are thought to […]
