Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Just like cars and machines need proper oils to for the parts to move correctly and the right gasoline to run efficiently, and run at all, so, too, do our bodies need the equivalent of those things in liquids and [...]
When I wrote my monthly column, Twelve Month’s of Change, I decided to use it as a road map for a year of Fit Tips to help us all re-align 12 health areas in new and exciting ways. By the end [...]
Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want picture embodies the nostalgia so many of us feel each holiday season. Every time I see that picture, images flash quickly between that image to my own grandparents’ kitchens. Indeed, my grandparents played a huge role [...]
We’re all connected by our family tree. It’s uncanny how traits in families get passed on. Passions for cooking, sports, fashion, music all show up in varying degrees in different family members through the generations.
On the outside, we all have some understanding of these similarities and accept them. We even joke and talk about them in family gatherings. “She has my knack for clumsiness.” “Look at his cooking talents – he’s a chip off the old block.”
I opened a fortune cookie the other day, expecting it to say something relatively nonsensical or meaningless, only to have it read:
“Money is not everything. You can buy a doctor but not heath.”
This fortune tells the story of more people than most of us can count, including most of us at times. All too often we fall into trap of thinking that the more we spend on health the healthier we will become. Not true
Nielson Wire yesterday posted a summary of a Scarborough Research study that may surprise you. According to the study, teens actually know what “being healthy” means. As reported by Nielson Wire, “92 percent percent of teens aged 13-17 say that health and a healthy lifestyle are important and when asked to give themselves a “health report card,” 76 percent of teens gave a grade of B- or higher.”
