Peeling the Onion Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In the language of statistics, health is a continuous variable. A person’s health can be expressed as an infinity of values ranging from abundant well-being to terminal states approaching death. If health were a discrete quantity you could assign a number to it. You could say that someone had…

Paying the Mortgage Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness Whether we rent or own our home, all of us pay some form of monthly living expenses. Even if we have paid down a mortgage and own our home outright, we still pay monthly utility bills in order to keep our homes functional and livable. We also pay property…

Owning Your Health Created inNewsletter Library,Breaking Bad Habits Recent discussions in the scientific literature are focusing on monitoring and possibly improving cardiovascular health in children. There’s been a lot of conversation and a lot of controversy. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association1 argued that universal screening of children could result in…

Out of the Past Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness In “Out of the Past”, one of the greatest film noir ever made, Robert Mitchum’s past inevitably catches up with him and dire consequences ensue for all involved. Are we, in terms of health and disease, also in danger of having our past – that is, our genetic…

One, Two, or Three Miles? Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Motivated Even experienced exercisers sometimes find it difficult to know how much to do. For the beginner this uncertainty represents a significant stumbling block. Fortunately well-established guidelines and protocols exist to provide assistance to all exercisers, regardless of your skill level. In general, the beginning exerciser requires…

New Year’s Resolution – Find Out Whether Chiropractic Care Is Right for You Created inNewsletter Library,Healthy Tips It’s early January – a New Year – and you’ve decided this is going to be the year you actually fulfill your list of New Year’s resolutions. This is going to be the year you finally start taking…

Mission Possible Created inNewsletter Library,Staying Motivated Everyone knows what he or she “should” do to obtain good health. But the mere knowledge of what we should be doing is never enough. If we’ve not been in good shape for some time, if we can’t remember the last time we did any meaningful exercise on a…

Mind and Matter Created inNewsletter Library,Mind-Body Connection Scientists and philosophers have pursued the notion of mind for thousands of years. [Of course, being able to think about the mind’s origins and place in the universe presumes having a mind, but that’s a separate piece of this puzzle.] Regardless of mind’s origin, we are well aware…

Meditation and Me Created inNewsletter Library,Wellness For many of us, the practice of meditation seems like a totally foreign notion. In an era of full-time, morning-to-night distractions and distractibility, the concept of quietly sitting with nothing else to do seems impossibly ridiculous. Why would anyone do that, we ask, as we text message with one…