What Forms of Communication Work Best for Health? Social communication can be very healthy for you. The data on social support range back to Berkman and Syme’s classic Alameda County Study of 1979 – generally the more social contacts you have, the longer you’ll live. The decrease in cardiovascular disease and depression via increasing social […]
Your New Year’s Revolutions (12/29/10)
Take Charge It’s a New Year, so it’s time to take charge. Americans are often unhappy with their lives and even more unhappy about their futures. Start with not a resolution but a revolution – a new way of looking at your body and brain that let’s you more fully control your fate. You’re not […]
Even the CIA doesn’t trust your health care (12/03/10)
Your Survival is On the Line In a time of Wikileaks revelations it’s hard for any story to stand out. When US diplomats are asked to obtain DNA samples of any significant foreigner they meet, and the Saudi King is telling the US how to bomb Iran, who cares that the CIA says the US […]
Is my chair dangerous to my health? (10/27/10)
First Read This Sitting Down Chairs are not dangerous to you as sculpture. Some Carlo Mollino and other 20th century designer chairs are now going for a million bucks. These types of chairs are perfectly safe as they are much too expensive to sit in. The dangerous ones are the chairs of cloth, polyvinyl, naugahyde, […]
Use It or Lose it – Why You May Never Want to Retire (10/12/10)
Many people believe they’ll never retire – because they won’t have the chance. The Wall Street –Subprime meltdown decimated personal retirement accounts while leaving public pensions grotesquely underfunded. Social Security has not paid cost of living increases for two years, and a highly indebted government may become incapable of paying for Medicare. Add in […]
