A Reset For Workplace Wellness?
By HARRIS ALLEN
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”– Dolly Parton
Sometimes, helpful perspective can be found in the most unexpected places. Ms. Parton may be better known for her achievements in country music, but her maxim also applies to certain aspects of the public dialogue on workplace wellness that have become a recurrent feature..
An example is a thread that has its roots in a blog invited two-part response counter-response (i.e., see the comments at the end of Part II) exchange between Al Lewis (aka whynobodybeliev) and myself that began November, 2014. The res...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCB Harris Allen Source Type: blogs
“Mandarin oranges may seem like an unlikely candidate for...
"Mandarin oranges may seem like an unlikely candidate for a marquee fruit. But while orange sales have gone down, the consumption of #mandarins — or you might call them #tangerines — has doubled in the U.S., where the average person now eats 5 pounds a year. Native to China and northeastern India, mandarins are one of 5 types of citrus (along with pummelos, citrons, kumquats and papedas) from which all others (like oranges and grapefruit) are derived. Today, California harvests about 92% of the country's mandarin crop, while Florida, troubled by citrus greening disease and obsolete varieties with seeds, harvests just 8...
Source: Kidney Notes - February 3, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Is quinoa the next super-food beauty breakthrough? Episode 118
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Do hand creams stop your skin from regenerating?
Julia from Germany asks…I have very dry skin so I use hand cream a lot. I read an article that said if you use too much hand cream the skin on your hands can not regenerate properly anymore because it becomes dependent on the hand cream. Is this true?
I wish Julia had included a link to the article so we could get more details but without further information we have to say this sounds like a misunderstand. There’s nothing about the chemistry of h...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Whither Health Insurance Exchanges Under The Affordable Care Act? Active Purchasing Versus Passive Marketplaces
The health insurance exchange, the organizational innovation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is here to stay. The principle of consumer choice among private health plans, with financial subsidies for low-income households, is now firmly entrenched. The Supreme Court has ruled that low-income subsidies are constitutional and hence that the exchanges can operate effectively in all 50 states.
As Republicans become convinced that full repeal is infeasible, many will discover that the exchange structure fits their values and policy preferences. Many Democrats will come to recognize that this model has worked well in employmen...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 2, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: James C. Robinson, Peter Lee and Zachary Goldman Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Covered California Denver Federal marketplaces Los Angeles Miami State exchanges Source Type: blogs
Protecting Scotch the Wrong Way in Africa
The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) has reportedly accepted the registration of “Scotch” as a geographical indication for whisky “made in Scotland from water, cereals and yeast, and matured for at least three years.” It’s unclear what if any commercial consequences this move will have considering that the 17 West African countries of the OAPI are not major consumers of Scotch. However, it does have significant importance as a step forward in the attempt to use GI protection to secure excessive privileges for Old World producers in foreign markets.
Perhaps the word “Scotch” does indeed re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 17, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: K. William Watson Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
A Must-Read Treatment of the CDC's Campaign of Deception Regarding E-Cigarettes
Dr. Peter Sandman, an expert in risk communication, has written an outstanding, detailed analysis and evaluation of the CDC's public communications regarding electronic cigarettes, focusing on the agency's communications related to its recent MMWR article reporting a dramatic increase in teen e-cigarette use accompanied by a dramatic decline in teen smoking.His commentary, entitled "A Promising Candidate for Most Dangerously Dishonest Public Health News Release of the Year," provides the most detailed analysis I have seen regarding the CDC's communications surrounding its April 2015 MMWR article. This is an issue about whi...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 24, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
The TPP Is, In Fact, About Trade
One of the criticisms of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is that it’s “not about trade.” While it is true that the TPP goes beyond trade, and addresses issues such as labor, environment and intellectual property protection (in ways that I’m not always happy about), its impact on traditional protectionist measures such as tariffs should not be ignored. Here is Politico on this issue:
Vietnam slaps tariffs of 70 percent on U.S. cars and machinery, 35 percent on U.S. chemicals, 30 percent on U.S. biscuits and baked goods, and 25 percent on U.S. recording equipment. Japan marks up our oranges 16 percent from Ju...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Cancer is Not a Death Sentence
Life is Good!
If you or a loved one has just gotten a cancer diagnosis, I want to reach out to you with this article to let you know you don’t have to be afraid. Of course you will be in the beginning. We are conditioned to fear cancer. But, I want you to know that you have enormous hope for a high quality, healthy, even long, life in your future if you want that and are willing to listen to the message from your body and take action to heal it.
Let’s Face the Fear Factor First
I realize that having “death” in the title is a little scary, but it’s true: Cancer is not your death sentence. Being born is. At birth...
Source: Life Learning Today - May 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Green Living Happy Healthy Living How To Solving Problems Spiritual alternative cancer cures alternative cancer healing Believe faith fear fear of cancer heal yourself healing cancer healing power love yourself Source Type: blogs
5 Reasons to Eat This Fruit You Probably Never Tried
Disclosure: I attended a “sneak peak” event for Zespri SunGold kiwifruit at Ketchum’s D.C. offices on May 19, 2015. I work with Zespri on media. I was not compensated to write this blog.
Chances are you have never had a SunGold Kiwifruit from New Zealand. It is a new variety of kiwifruit with a tropical flavor and beautiful yellow color.
Some Things Are Worth Waiting For
It took Zespri 10 years to create this unique cultivar. SunGold is finally ready for the U.S. (ask for it in stores if you don’t see it by June!)
Top 5 Reasons You Will Love Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit
1. VITAMIN C!!! SunGold kiwifru...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - May 21, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: eating healthy food fruits nutrition zespri sungold kiwifruit Source Type: blogs
My first experience administering injections
involved sitting in an ICU room, ten years old, drinking bitter diet Shasta colas and watching thrillers from the 90s starring Sandra Bullock. The nurses started me on oranges. Easy as pie — I could stab away, practicing insulin injections with saline and fruit. The oranges practically squealed with delight upon puncture, rewarding me with the scent of citrus and a plume of juice — no blood, no outcry.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Heather Alva Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
How to tell if your makeup primer is worth it. Episode 71
This week Randy and I explain how to test your makeup primer to see if it’s worth the money.
Improbable products
You know this game – I look for beauty products that are just too ridiculous to be true, then I make up one that’s even more ridiculous and challenge Perry to guess which one is fake. Can you spot the phony?
The HeMan nail brush
If you’re too macho for those dainty plastic brushes that women used to scrub their fingernails then you’ll love this new brush made from an actual galvanized box nail with bristles attached to one side.
The iBrush
There’s nothing worse than wanting to sn...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiDiscover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid Source Type: blogs
Lowering health care costs is more than cost awareness
I wish lowering health care costs was as easy as “cost awareness,” but as one patient put it, “I never pay the first few bills, because the amount changes every time a new bill is sent.” The payment system is so fragmented that it’s hard to know what will become an expense with any given illness. Even the savviest of consumers of health care have difficulty with hospital payment systems. Most consumers of health care are not savvy consumers. Comparing the cost of apples and oranges in one grocery store to another is not like comparing a hip replacement from one hospital to another. Often in emergency si...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 22, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kristeen Maurin, RN Tags: Patient Health reform Source Type: blogs
Lose the Grains, Save Some Green: An excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health
Here’s an excerpt from the new Wheat Belly Total Health book to be released September 16, 2014.
What’s there left to say after the original Wheat Belly knocked the socks off the dietary community with its upsetting revelations? Plenty! Remove this dietary poison, made worse by the shenanigans of agribusiness, and full health does not return right away–more needs to be done. The conversations in Wheat Belly Total Health show you how to take the reins and regain health as fully as possible, even if your health struggles include conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, or failed...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly books gluten grains Grasses Total Health Source Type: blogs
