The surprising impact of the Rocking Chair Project By Mike Magee Seven years ago, on the birth of our first grandchild, Anabella, Trish and I gave our son, Michael, and his wife Susanna a glider rocking chair. It had such a comforting and nurturing effect on both the child and her parents, that we made […]
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Poverty and Health
How higher wages and improved education could lower health care costs Growing up in the 1950s, with a physician father who saw patients in an office attached to our house, I saw health care practiced every day. My father was as much a counselor and coach as he was a clinician and scientist – helping […]
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Hiding Vegetables in Kids’ Food
Stealth health. It’s a term that has been used for years to describe adopting healthy behaviors without much effort. But it’s been all the rage since Jessica Seinfeld appeared on Oprah with her new book, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food (HarperCollins, 2007). The book benefited from the “Oprah Factor” […]
Your water footprint By Mike Magee We’ve finally broken through on Global Warming. Most denial has fallen away; Al Gore has a Nobel Prize; The Today show and NBC Nightly News have green peacocks and have “covered the Earth”; and everyday people like you and me are wondering what our “personal carbon footprints” are. If […]
There is a lot to be said about quality today. It’s a term we hear in almost any conversation about healthcare, and as much as it’s used, it is misunderstood. Ask most any physician or hospital leader and they will tell you that we have, without question, the best quality healthcare in the world. But […]
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Dangers of the Tanning Industry
A new twist in Europe Here is a comment from a viewer in the United Kingdom in response to our Health Politics program on the dangers of tanning salons: "A good article. But you don’t mention the horrendous situation in some British cities. Tanning facilities have been set up in premises with coin in the slot payment […]
Yes, there’s a link between the two and it’s worth thinking about Anyone who has followed my Health Politics programs over the last few years knows that I’ve done a lot of research on our most precious resource — water — and how it affects virtually every aspect of our lives. In the process of […]
