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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 2/22/09 - 3/1/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Friday, February 27, 2009. It Costs Too Much To Stay Healthy. This chart comes from a white paper, Integrated Healthcare Management. Published by The Trizetto Group, Inc. The combination of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses per insured worker is approaching an unsustainable $1,600 a month! Thursday, February 26, 2009. High Helath Costs Drive Unhealhty Behavior. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. I'm Not Leaving Without a Prescription". The most frequently-seen...
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 7/5/09 - 7/12/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Saturday, July 11, 2009. David After A Trip To America. Another Incentive To Lose Weigth.Swine Flu. An unexpected characteristic has emerged among many swine flu victims who become severely ill: They are fat. 8220;Morbid obesity is one of the most common findings turning up in severely ill patients,” said Nikki Shindo, who is leading the investigation of swine flu patients at the WHO in Geneva. “It’s a huge problem.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog...
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: Would you like a side of Dioxin with your Burger?
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Would you like a side of Dioxin with your Burger? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog will explore why we've evolved into an unhealthy nation and what we can do to change it. We will share ideas, techniques and approaches for engaging people in the management of their own health. And we'll interview companies on ideas, strategies and technologies that will motivate Americans to evolve into healthier people.
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 1/25/09 - 2/1/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Monday, January 26, 2009. Looming Shortage of Primary Care Doctors May Add to Unhealthy Behavior. A recent survey of 270,000 primary care and 50,000 specialist doctors funded by The Physician's Foundation presents an alarming picture of the future. Here are some of the depressing stats from the survey:. 11%, or more than 35,000 doctors nationwide, said they plan to retire. 20% said they will cut back on patients seen. 10% said they will work part-time.
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 6/20/10 - 6/27/10
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Friday, June 25, 2010. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog will explore why we've evolved into an unhealthy nation and what we can do to change it. We will share ideas, techniques and approaches for engaging people in the management of their own health. And we'll interview companies on ideas, strategies and technologies that will motivate Americans to evolve into healthier people. And founders of The Reteller Channel. Disease Management Care Blog.
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 7/12/09 - 7/19/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Thursday, July 16, 2009. One Way to Lower Health Costs: Pay People to be Healthy. Good news: Health costs as little as $3 a day. At least, that's all it took in one recent study for several patients to forgo bad behaviors that put their health at risk. We know that people in the short term have a lot of trouble changing. As director of Penn's Center for Health Incentives, part of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Volpp is in perpetual pursu...
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 6/28/09 - 7/5/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Mississippi's still fattest but Alabama closing in Comcast.net. It's that time of year again when the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation publish their annual obesity rates. And for the fifth year in a row, MS leads the way with a 32.5% rate of adult obesity. Not far behind at 31.2% is Alabama. W. VA and TN are in hot pursuit at 31.1% and 30.2%. Monday, June 29, 2009. Many will argue that focusing on ...
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 1/18/09 - 1/25/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Thursday, January 22, 2009. Patients With High Medical Costs Less Likely To Trust Their Docs. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. What Not To Eat. Men's Health Magazine has published its 2009 list of the 20 worst foods in America. For the full list go here. Here is their pick for the #1 worst food in America:. Baskin Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake. 135 g fat (59 g saturated fat, 2.5 g trans fats). 1,700 mg sodium. Gag me with a spoon! Monday, January 19, 2009.
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 3/29/09 - 4/5/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Friday, April 3, 2009. It's Not What You Eat, It's What You Drink. When it comes to calorie intake, researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that liquid calorie intake has a stronger impact on weight gain (or loss) than solid calorie intake. As you might suspect sugar sweetened beverages are the leading source of liquid calories. Consumption of liquid calories from beverages has increased in parallel with the obesity epidemic.
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UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR: 2/8/09 - 2/15/09
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Observations on America's Attitude Toward Health. Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Another Look At Vaccines And Autism. How's this for a provocative title: "Vaccines and autism- can we stick a fork in it now, please? This is from a must read post by Tara C. Smith, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Read it on her blog Aetiology. The research was published in February 1998 in an article in The Lancet medical journal. It claimed that the families of eight out of 12 children attending a routine clinic...
