The US government, through the Centers for Disease Control, has an official opinion on how much exercise we need. Adults should get 30 minutes a day, five days of week, of moderate activity, such as brisk walking. This doesn’t need to happen in 30-minute segments. Ten minutes at a time is enough, as long as… Read more
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Health insurance industry to consumers: You’re financially responsible for your behavior
Source: Courier Times Online Scott Harrington is a professor at Wharton and “adjunct scholar” at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Two weeks ago he wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that gave the standard Republican argument against a public option: It will inevitably lead to a single-payer system. “Private health plans have a strong… Read more
Paging Dr. Frankenstein
Yes, there’s mercury in your salmon and melamine in little Jenny’s formula, but not enough to do any real damage. Read more
The last well person
“A well person is a patient who has not been completely worked up.” Read more
"I" Is for Innocent: Health obsession in fiction
Private eye Kinsey Milhone gets an earful of healthism. Read more
My personal odyssey through the health culture
I was a “victim of advice” in the seventies, but I should have known better. Read more
The Health Culture: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
The incessant injunction to adopt “healthy lifestyles” may not be in our best interest, either as individuals or as a society. Read more