Thanks to the author (Maira Kalman) and the sender (Kristy) for this great one about our culture, our food, and our health!

"There is no such thing as a bad bug. A plant will protect itself naturally if it is healthy."

And that, my friends, sums up my outlook on life and health in one succinct statement.

I've probably mentioned this before, but it is with issues of health, predominantly obesity, that I find myself most urgently at war with my otherwise across-the-board liberal mentality ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting op-ed about the efficacy of calorie counts on restaurant menus.

Summative point:
"Calorie posting may be desirable even if it fails to reduce calorie intake. But effective policies to deal with obesity will need to involve much more than posting calories. People eat too much because calorie-dense foods are convenient and ( Read more... )

You know how I always say I hate people because people are stupid?

Well, it's not their fault. The generalized American psyche makes us irrational, yet tricks us into thinking we're not. It's the perfect crime.

Need a real-life case study? How about health care reform?I admit that my hatred for doctors generally and the medical 'machine' ( ( Read more... )

Bob Harper, one of the trainers from my obsessive passion The Biggest Loser, has recently teamed up with Anthem [Blue Cross Blue Shield] to promote community-level health education and promotion.

One of their first (and admittedly basic) efforts is the Health Footprint Calculator, which is similar to your 'carbon footprint' except it aims to ( Read more... )

Nick sent me a New York Times article today that had the words I've been waiting so long to hear:

"Jobs in health care and those requiring postsecondary education will show the biggest gains by 2016, according to a report released on Monday by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers...employment in health and education services - which, ( Read more... )