Be the Champion of Your Health: Self-Advocacy in Your Health Care. Self-advocacy in your Health care is now a required skill in order receive appropriate care. As the industry of healthcare becomes increasingly dependent on technology, and corporate management rations your access to time with your human providers, the only way to ensure that you…
It’s time to drop Body Mass Index (BMI) from our conversations about what makes a healthy body. If for no other reason than it is too wrong too much of the time. The problem with BMI is that it is much like using a scale to tell us if we are Healthy. Five pounds of…
Have you ever stood in the store aisle trying to decipher the ingredient label on a product? Did you put the item in your cart with a whispered hope that the ingredients would not significantly harm you or your family? Don’t you hate feeling that way? Product companies are not likely to help us make…
In light of recent legislative efforts, in particular the current sb277 debate in California, it is important to understand who is really in charge of our bodies, Health, and that of our loved ones. As the law is written right now, the patient/consumer has the ultimate say in what happens to their bodies. That’s right….
Are you feeling the information overload yet? We are navigating input from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Reading and posting whenever we can. And can we talk about the quality of the material we are wading through? You might think that most of this material is somehow related to those Nigerian royalty emails from a few…
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