Happy New Year! With each new year, typically comes a new set of resolutions, but very rarely do we think of these resolutions in terms of goals. If we put as much thought and effort into making new years’ “goals” instead of just “resolutions,” we just might be more likely to actually accomplish a few [...]
I don’t know about you, but as a child, I always looked forward to the holidays because I knew I’d get time off from school, receive Christmas gifts from Santa and enjoy playing outside in the snow. As adults, though, we tend to become overwhelmed by the stress and burden of the holidays with their [...]
An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
We have all heard, read, seen and possibly even experienced the pitfalls of overwhelming financial debt. After all, even our very own country is experiencing trillions of dollars of debt. Financial debt, if not addressed and dealt with, can lead to work, family and health problems. You would probably search in vain for someone who [...]
A recent publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 30% of U.S. adults do not exercise beyond that which is necessary to do their jobs. In some regions, that figure was as high as 47%. This was the third in a series of in-depth studies. The first two looked [...]
I have been asked many times, “Mark, how do you consistently maintain a wellness program?” Those who ask this question sometimes add, “You have been able to keep it going for over 25 years.” Without thinking too much, I normally answer, “I just make it a priority.” With further thought regarding my normal answer, I [...]
At the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s annual meeting this fall, Dr. Robert Gould, a behavioral scientist and President and CEO of the Partnership for Prevention, challenged corporate executives to take an active role in promoting the wellness of their employees. Why? Experts agree that, regardless of the impact of healthcare legislation in the U.S., costs [...]
In April 2010, a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine¹ examined individually and collectively the effects of four behaviors on mortality in adults. The behaviors examined were physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption.
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