Do You Want a Health Care System or a Healing System?
Health care fills the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the internal healing system than the health care system.
Health care fills the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the internal healing system than the health care system.
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
BARCELONA, Spain — Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say. Studies have shown heart patients...
Kari Henley | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
Whew. Things are heating up out there, aren't they? Temperatures are in full summer swelter, political tempers are sky high, and the hurricane season ...
Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.
Jake Steinfeld | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
To imply, as Time magazine did, that we shouldn't be working out or playing sports because exercising alone won't help us get thin is missing the point of exercise entirely.
Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
The solution seems obvious: be less physically active and you'll eat less. You don't even need a Harvard degree to figure it out.
Joshua Rosenthal | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
We're caught in a never ending cycle that leads to an exhausted immune system, weight gain, diabetes, and other preventable diseases.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
I was surprised that a movie about an American chef whose famous French cuisine was cooked in her Cambridge home, was one of the most moving movies I have ever seen.
TIME | John Cloud | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living
As I write this, tomorrow is Tuesday, which is a cardio day. I'll spend five minutes warming up on the VersaClimber, a towering machine that requires ...
Todd Bottorff | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
The biggest impact on our happiness begins with the difference between thinking about it and doing something (which is a step that most people never take).
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
To reduce severe accumulation of stress, you must find as many ways as possible for your brain and body to release endorphins, which turns stress response off. Here are 8 things you can do.
Stefan Aschan | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
These circuits are highly motivational; plus they train your anaerobic system, burn the highest amounts of fat calories and prevent boredom.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
Yoga should be an uplifting experience. It should provide a vacation from the thoughts. If it causes one to conjure up new ways to beat oneself up, then, well that's criminal.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Federal government improvements on health care are not sufficient. The key to progress is a partnership between government and the American people.
Jason Mannino | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living
Ninety percent of our eligible workforce remains employed even though we are currently experiencing the worst unemployment rate in 26 years. Stress le...
Arthur Agatston, M.D. | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
No matter what health care delivery system this country adopts, no matter what plan or series of plans are enacted, it will be bankrupted in no time b...
Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
We are the sole controllers of what go into our pet's mouths so we must govern what we feed our pets and how to help them control their weight.
James M. Lynch | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
I was gathering evidence that people were stupid, they were selfish and that I was the only right thinking person in the world and my anger was justified. In short; I was being a big fat jerk.
Sheila Marikar | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
To many women in Hollywood abide by the ridiculous regimen of few hours of cardio here, one hour of lifting there, then a trip to the clinic to get lasered down and Botoxed up.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
Let's talk about fat. Really talk about it. Oprah does. Why not the rest of America?
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 08.26.2009 | Green
With so much work to be done to make our world a sustainable place, does it make any kind of sense to be expending precious calories in so wanton a matter?
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Many years ago, my kung fu master warned me that I was over-training. "I show you something and you practice it 5,000 times," he said. I swelled with pride at my teacher's comment, figuring it was a sign he recognized how tough I was, and how dedicated and disciplined too. It took me a long time to realize that his remarks were actually a call to moderation.
Una LaMarche | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
Wii Fit seemed like the perfect momentary obsession workout regimen for someone with absolutely no willpower or motivation who needs to be distracted in order to exercise.
Stefan Aschan | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
I see individuals running with forward headed shoulders, holding on to the treadmill, not lifting up their heels ... I can go on. Here are some simple guidelines to follow when you run.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics