Sick Care vs Health Care: There Is A Difference & An Answer

Sick Care One morning I was setting up a booth at a trade show. I had time to spare so I looked for the coffee. The facility was still preparing everything for breakfast so I slumped back to the booth to wait. A few minutes later I overheard a gentleman ask the conference administrators about […]

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Cinnamon burns fat cells, but don’t start chugging cinnarolls just yet

Cinnamon Burns Fat As the article states, this is no “silver bullet” but the fact that cinnamon burns fat is quite helpful. Here we can follow Hippocrates’ advice “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” For pennies most people can add cinnamon to a healthy meal and reap the benefits of cinnamon.

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Behavior Kills: Nearly Half of Cancers Can Be Prevented By Behavior

Behavior Kills We have known for years that behavior impacts health. There has been a linkage between smoking and cancer for decades. A new study shows that unhealthy behaviors, including smoking, are behind many cancers. We found that 42% of all incident cancer cases and almost one-half of all cancer deaths, representing 659,640 cancer cases

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Why hotels are getting serious about relaxation and wellbeing

The Hospital in Hospitality The English word hospital finds its roots in the Late Latin hospitale “guest-house, inn,” (click here for more etymology) and evolved to focus on the sick and needy. The idea that the hospitality industry has taken a renewed interest in health and wellbeing for its guests really isn’t so new. While hospitals continue to

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Millennial Views Of Health Are Holistic Yet Inconsistent: How Can Brands Help?

Millennial Health Care Americans born between between the early 1980’s to the mid 1990’s are often labeled “Millennials” as a demographic to depict / explain behavior of the generation. While we should not rely too much on demographics, each generation does have some defining characteristics. Millennials have entered an increasingly expensive and broken “sick care”

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Why Executives Don’t Need Executive Health

Executive Health If ever there was model of “spare no expense” healthcare it is executive health. These key people are responsible for millions (or billions) of dollars and hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of employees. It is critical to these organization that those folks remain healthy, hence the specialty of Executive Health– from

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WSJ Says Infrared Saunas Don’t Help You Detox—Studies Disagree

Saunas Help The Wall Street Journal is usually credible but this article by Tania Dempsey, MD does make one wonder about neutrality. Though an expert herself, Dr. Dempsey does a magnificent job going to published studies to support her experience that saunas help patients detoxify. An internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dempsey refutes a Wall Street Journal article

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“Why Is Health Care So Expensive”–The Wrong Question

Chronic Disease Epidemic For the past several decades a chronic disease epidemic of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more has taken hold of the US and most Western nations. The culprit behind most of these insidious chronic diseases is the Western Lifestyle. High stress, fast food, late nights, processed meals, always behind schedule kind of

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