Adult obesity rates have doubled in the past three decades, and childhood rates have tripled during this time. Overall two-thirds of adults and 23 million children are overweight or obese. Our national weight gain is costing the country billions in preventable health care costs and lost productivity.
This crisis needs to become part of our national [...]
Following a 20-minute warmup on the treadmill and one set of sit-ups, Beasley’s heart stopped. The 48-year-old fitness buff collapsed from a major heart attack in front of stunned club members, including his wife and daughter.
He was in the right place at the right time. His health club, Ontario Racquet Club (ORC) in Mississauga, had [...]
Cigarettes cost the average Australian smoker about $A300,000 ($NZ365,365) in their lifetime, a new calculation shows.
A South Australian infectious disease physician, Dr Ross Philpot, has run new statistics on the physical and financial cost of smoking.
By 65, the average 20-a-day smoker will have puffed on 400,000 cigarettes, and by the time they die 500,000 will [...]
We have been moving toward the adoption of health management as at least part of the solution to our “healthcare cost crisis†for decades, though with something close to glacial speed. The growth of health insurance, and its decisions not to pay for the limited amount of health management advice and support given by family [...]
By Dr. Joan A. Friedman (DaCapo, $15.95) Author Joan Friedman is an identical twin, the mother of twins and has three decades’ experience as a psychotherapist specializing in twin issues. Her first point when it comes to parenting twins is this: Think of your twins as individuals. When you discover you’re pregnant with twins, [...]
Marcia Hall has been helping women overcome violent encounters for more than three decades. Since 1996, she has helped hundreds of women veterans recover from traumatic experiences while serving in the military. Twelve years ago, Hall, a trauma therapist, was asked to start the Women�s Trauma Recovery Program at the Veterans Affairs Roseburg Healthcare System. [...]
The real excitement took place a few miles away, a few hours earlier, in a sports arena at Washington’s American University. Before a young, multi-racial and delirious crowd, Barack Obama was being anointed as the new John F Kennedy. JFK was no saint, but a link to the legend can add lustre to any Democratic [...]
