Archive for September, 2010

Health care may not save you from your affliction. When it comes to challenging conditions with expensive treatments, health care providers find that the costs are too much for insurance companies and patients alike.

Wellness initiatives pay, treatment for everything else may one day be too expensive. Health care providers are paying a king’s ransom for treatments that make only small improvements. It isn’t affordable to add a few weeks to a few months of time. The future of a person is dependent on the accounting system. It is also, a bad decision to finance an almost worthless drug.

The debate in American medicine is based on the decided effectiveness of a procedure vs. the costs. The insurance companies are taking a critical look at costs vs. benefits. The issue of cost-effectiveness is taking center stage as more Americans become eligible for Medicare insurance, and some 30 million uninsured people are promised health coverage by 2019.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country, and as yet hasn’t done much to control the costs. Biologic drugs can cost upwards of $100,000 a year in prolonging the life of cancer patients, and for medical devices for heart patients.

The real story is they are yet to make us healthy.  Pulling it off is an inside job. Health by committee isn’t going to work on any front. Financially and strategically Americans have to build their own healthy future.

The tools are available and they are a fraction of the price of medicine. We are designed for simple solutions that are focused on building us up not literally tearing us down. Information technology matters, it services the individuals who are ready to take up the lifestyle. We don’t have to get lost in the shuffle; there is provocative, insightful, information that offers practical ways to heal. The question is who’s in charge of your health.

You are part of the solution, falling into the trap that pharmaceutical companies set, which is they are the source for your health is the difference between health and wellness, and just symptom relief.

The ten new ways to view weight management are remarkably easy and at the same time invisible to those you dine with.

Because eating is a pleasure it is undeniably the hardest thing to do. Most dieters are dispirited and frustrated by the gimmicky ways that most diets work.

For better or worse these diets are designed to make majestic sweeps of you eating patterns. There is nothing more thrilling than losing weight and becoming healthier. Going beyond the unusual dieting philosophies, I put together a plan for changing how you look at weight management.

1. Be selective about what you consume. You have to assign a whole new meaning to eating. Eating has to have a standard. Dinning is pleasure in our world. You have to take the eating experience even farther, by imaging a destination. Such as a healthy body, youthful appearance and longevity, so the number one tip is the value of what you ingest.

 2. Imaging what may be in the food you consume is a poor substitute for knowing.  Stay clear of packaged food with an ingredient list too long too read. In these foods are appetite enhances, such as MSG, high fructose corn syrup and non-nutrient sweeteners. All these stimulate your appetite. Calorie restriction means eat what you need, discard the rest.

 3. Mental tasks, such as work related problems, computer work that uses brain power, and any thinking tasks use a great deal of sucrose. You brain uses a good amount of calories and depends on sugar. Now that sugar can be natural such as in fruits and vegetables. Be sure to get up and use some physical activity to offset the calories, and to keep the appetite from going into overdrive.

 4. Forget dieting, this is the one way to ensure you never change your lifestyle. It is dependent on short term goals, and that means it is not meant to overhaul your weight. You are looking for a lifestyle that works.  

 5. Get away from your normal routine. The power of change emerges a as new weight loss tool. The same old reinforces failure. Start reading and researching new ways of living. What comes to mind is raw food, paleo, macrobiotic and green smoothie’s lifestyle blogs. They may give you plenty of eureka moments.

6. The mother of invention is motivation. Get motivated in the endless pursuit of ways to make you and your family healthy. The most effective way to save money is to be mindful of what you buy. Get motivated to save not only by buying the cheapest food, but the one with the most nutritional value for the buck.

 7. Victim or villain is a question that every dieter should ask themselves. The biggest misconception around is that you are overweight because you lack self control. Technically that is factual. The victim is the loser in this game and it isn’t in pounds. Most food manufactures and fast food companies want repeat business. By keeping the crowd hungry they are betting on return customers. Artificial appetite builders are in every bite you take of processed foods.

8. Most dieters feel a bit fragile. They know that it is so easy to get off course. Dieting is a perpetual campaign and it is the worst enemy of those caught in the trap of repeated dieting. Become powerful ignore the hype and start your own path.

9. Live better. That is the solution, and many successful outcomes came about because of this mindset. Mind your meals without getting out of a mainstream lifestyle. A quick look around, shows that most people aren’t mindful of what they put into their mouths, and this tells you to stop being one of them.  

10. Move, don’t sit on it. Move by walking, bending, and stretching. These are all the weight loss exercise you need to get started.

Hypochondria syndrome is a do-it-yourself diagnosis that you reinforce over and over again. Being a hypochondriac is like being the nymphomaniac of disease. You just can’t get enough illnesses to wrap your mind around. It is a never ending quest. From the newest disease to the obscure condition you know you don’t have a chance. Basically, you consider yourself a visionary who could predict and even invent conditions that no one else can see in you.
This is the hypochondria syndrome where the only rule is that you unveil a disastrous condition often enough. If it fits, than you can keep piling it on, and if not no one has ever been arrested for telling astonishing stories.

This is as much an achievement as part of your journey. You can make a mountain out of a mole hill without blinking an eye. You are on autopilot carrying a load that is literally made out of thin air. You know your mission is to make everything bigger that you thought you could.

This is an unsustainable lifestyle, secondhand illness. You have become a reliable catalyst for thinking up knockout conditions that will befall you. You can upgrade a common cold to plague status. You are Masterpiece Theater, prime time stage with the ability to clear the house. The dangerous conditions that most of the time turn out to be hype, seem to cause more than a ripple in your world. You can ramble for hours on end why your anxiety makes sense.

Confident that you are on to something entirely new, goose bumps, tingly sensations, and butterflies in the stomach prove this condition needs a closer look. Hypochondria syndrome isn’t exactly following your bliss. Its hard work, but someone got to do it. The close encounters with everything in your environment makes a brewing storm possible. The turmoil for those near by makes hypochondria syndrome an indulgent of epic proportions.

Hypochondria syndrome is a power trip, undaunted by the spin that threatens others sanity. It’s taking flight inside your own mind. The comfortable being you once were is out. This isn’t the dream trip you signed up for. There’s a vast amount of wasted time spent in obsessive worry. This is where more is less.