All Entries Tagged With: "health care"
Americans Living Longer but Obesity Rising
Americans are living longer even though obesity is rising thanks to prescription drugs and medical care. Unfortunately, fewer people can afford the healthcare required. The rising costs of healthcare are estimated at $190 billion per year and this preventable epidemic is bankrupting us as a nation. Slender For Life™ offers real solutions for ending the [...]
Fast Foods Saltier in U.S. Than Overseas?
Countries overseas have been demanding that US fast foods be less saltier. So, why wouldn’t McDonald’s and Subway offer the same food here? It only makes health sense that they would do that. If you have followed my posts, you know that I am passionate about healthcare reform and that I believe that I believe [...]
Medical Hypnosis: You Are Getting Very Healthy
Medical Hypnosis: You Are Getting Very Healthy, is a must read for consumers and for all health care professionals. Dr. Safer, a New York psychologist who has a rare but curable form of leukemia, started out as a skeptic, but found that hypnosis helped put her at ease before biopsies, MRIs and several surgeries. She [...]
Healthcare Reform: When Will We Get It?
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy When will we get it that we must have healthcare reform? We are bankrupting our nation with unnecessary healthcare costs that result from lifestyle choices of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise. Healthcare reform begins with each one of us individually taking responsibility [...]
Overweight Kids Risk High Blood Pressure
Overweight kids risk having high blood pressure now – not just later on in life, but now. Being overweight, not just obese, can cause damage to the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. Childhood obesity is for the most part preventable and from my perspective it is unconscionable that in 2011 we are feeding our kids [...]
One Word Can Save Your Life: No!
For years I have said that saying “no” to your doctor can save your life. I think that John McDougall, MD , is right on with this one. To this day I still get shocked when I hear clients tell me about the visits to their MD from a simple cold to an ache or [...]
Heal Yourself ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer & Dr. Bruce Lipton, Pt.1
Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton tell how you can heal yourself by changing your thoughts. The function of the mind is to create coherence between your beliefs and the reality that you experience. Henry Ford said that if you believe that you can or if you believe you can’t, you’re right. If you [...]
Healthy Food Not Accessible to Families
There are few things that genuinely surprise me, but the lack of accessibility of healthy food to families was downright shocking to me. The fact that my own state, Washington, only scored a 12 out of a possible 100 points is disappointing. At the Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss offices of Slender [...]
Life with Mom Week 12 ~ Cribbage
Quiet is so good! The most exciting thing in week 12 of our life with Mom is that I beat her in a game of cribbage! Our other exciting news of the week was that Mom lost another half pound. She continues making healthy eating choices, using self-hypnosis and listening to the Becoming Slender For [...]
Obesity Rates Weigh Heavy On Cities’ Budgets
Obesity rates continue to climb and that weighs heavily on our city, state and national budgets. For the most part, obesity is preventable with lifestyle changes. We don’t have to be obese or even overweight. Making positive lifestyle changes can help overcome both personal and governmental financial crisis. I understand the seemingly impossible task of [...]
Weight Loss with CNN Hero Linda Fondren
I was so touched the other night when I turned on CNN Thanksgiving night for a few minutes and Anderson cooper was featuring Linda Fonderen as a CNN hero. Linda Fonderen gets it. Obesity is so commonplace it has become normal. Clients from the Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss offices of Slender [...]
America – We Are Number 1 For Being Obese or Overweight
America, we are number 1 for being obese or overweight. Now, that is really, really sad. At a time when we have record debt, high unemployment and soaring health care costs, we simply cannot afford the insanity of this preventable epidemic of obesity. In my Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss offices of [...]
Employees Improve Health with Low-Fat Vegetarian Diet
I often give health and wellness talks to employees of businesses and I always talk about the benefits of a low-fat vegetarian diet, exercise, stress management and hypnotherapy. I was thrilled when I came across this GEICO employees study showing the health benefits with a low-fat vegetarian diet. If you are self-employed like me, you [...]
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