Mount Sinai’s Wellness Lab Mount Sinai’s wellness lab has the right idea… transform healthcare by focusing on healthy people and working to keep them that way. Over 80% of “healthcare” dollars in the US go to chronic illnesses. The vast majority of those chronic illnesses are preventable and even reversible… but not with the current […]
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Care Coordination Tech Helps SDOH Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) have been part of our health since the beginning. However, we have lost track of the value of SDOH in the past few decades as “health care” became synonymous with medical care which has left housing, education, loneliness, nutrition and much more out of the
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2018 Employer Health Costs 2018 employer health costs grew 5% to an average premium of nearly $20,000 for a family. Meanwhile, employees continue to pay more for their part of the health insurance premium while enduring higher deductibles. That Americans and their employers pay more and get less has been going on for decades. Literally.
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Yoga Helped Anxiety “Just breathe”… probably some of the best advice for those who are moving into anxiety. Breathing can help focus the mind as well as brings a steady supply of oxygen into the body. For some, going an additional step with yoga helped anxiety. My mother always looked for natural alternatives to cure
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Feng Shui Wellbeing We all can fall into the trap of dismissing an approach just because it does not fit our worldview. The benefits of feng shui for wellbeing seemed a far stretch. Even after getting past the language, this new concepts like “poison arrow qi” just rattled around in a Western mind. However, when
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Health Insurance India India’s government has recently announced a new plan for health insurance throughout India. This Indian version of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is known as Ayushman Bharat, or Long Life India. The intent is to be a “safety-net”… not unlike American efforts in Medicaid / Medicare and the recent Medicare For All. What
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Anxiety Is Expensive Anxiety is expensive and not only as a source of suffering for fellow human beings. Mental health, much too long deferred, is demanding attention in workplaces. The financial costs for mental health have been rising at twice the rate of other medical expenses… which have been rising too much for too long.
Big Food Is Going Vegan You know consumer health is making progress when Big Food is going vegan. Health Warrior is a seven-year-old, high-growth and plant-based superfood company based in the Bay Area that might be best known for popularizing chia seeds in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space. Cofounded by college roommates Shane Emmett
European Health European health and wellbeing have seen improvements in a number of areas such as increased life expectancy and lower maternal mortality. However, they struggle overall with some lifestyle choices like tobacco and alcohol. During a trip to Iceland and Germany in June we noticed that while supermarkets carried only a fraction of a
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Green Tea Extract Appetite Control As the obesity epidemic continues in the US and other nations, there is continued focus on how to lose weight. While there is no magic pill or secret exercise there is some additional benefit from green tea extract for appetite control. Sometimes all we need is just a gently nudge
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