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Health lifestyles

Get Fit to Prevent Falls This Winter

As cold, dark days creep in, we are reminded that winter is here—and with it, slippery patches of ice and snow.  Practicing good fall prevention—like wearing rubber-soled shoes and having snow and ice removed from ...
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Chronic Diseases

Physical Activity Plays a Crucial Role in Chronic Disease Prevention

Almost instantly after your finish your exercise "sweat" session, your blood pressure drops and feelings of anxiety die down. Don’t be surprised if your find your sleep improves too! In addition to stronger bones and ...
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Brain Health

Health is Learning From Nature

Yes, it is true, nature has healing power!  Allowing ourself to integrate nature into your day more fully will make you healthier and happier. Use nature to turn over a new leaf, to discover, create ...
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Brain Health

Health Is Enjoying a Pet

When thinking about things to do to maintain your health, HAVING A PET belongs high on this list.  Research suggests that our fluffy friend is good for your physical and mental health. Pets are non-judgmental ...
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Marilyn Shreve, TIP Health
Brain Health

Think Health For a Change—Rethinking your health

This book is the result of many years of counseling patients and friends about their health. The right words at the right time have the power to help improve a person’s health and consequently their ...
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Courage

Health is Being Resilient

Recently, facing two right hip operations and a fractured femur, I found myself thinking about the importance of being resilient. When something goes wrong, you tend to bounce back or fall apart. Resilience means being ...
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Brain Health

Be Positive, It’s Good for Your Health

Through positive thinking and commitment, you can move from one health accomplishment to another, using your successes as steppingstones. I recently suffered a fractured femur leaving me unable to put any weight on my right ...
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Healthcare innovative technology

Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Optimistic!

Be Strong, Be Brave, and Be Optimistic!   Think Health For A Change is the result of many years of counseling patients and friends about their health. The right words at the right time have the ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

POSITION YOURSELF CALM

Three ways to keep your body more relaxed and Think Health for a Change.   AT YOUR COMPUTER—Knees should be even with hips, with your computer monitor at eye level (7 Minute Back Pain Solution) ...
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Uncategorized

Medication Adherence Statistics

  Medication non-adherence is an enormous problem that is largely unaddressed by the healthcare system. Researchers have been studying the cause of medication non-adherence for decades and hundreds of papers have been published.  Some of ...
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Courage

Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change

We believe in home and that our home should restore us from the stresses of the day and ready us for tomorrow. We believe in seeking the balance between hustle and rest and learning to find contentment in both.  We believe in kindness, knowing we are made better when we all work together.  We believe…
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Brain Health

Make Yourself Stronger

More than ever we need qualities like grit, resilience and drive as well as physical power and stamina for a healthy mind and body.   Fortunately. having one can make building all the others easier, research has found. Studies indicate that increasing your physical strength ” allows you to see that you can do difficult things…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses

Michelangelo had his Pope Julius II, Mozart his Colloredo. But they did not make excuses about the restrictions placed upon them.  They made masterworks that  changed the standards of art and music. In the US healthcare system, the medicines are complex, and the regulations are stifling but using the complexity of our healthcare system as…
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Inspire

Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!

The Pledge of Allegiance just thirty-one words… whether we are aware of it or not, these thirty-one words carved out a place in our hearts—in the shape of a true patriot:  a love of liberty, a defender of faith, a promoter of unity, a champion of peace, a protector of democracy and a guardian on…
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Health lifestyles

For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters

A new study in the journal Global Epidemiology authored by Dr, Brendan Case (Associate Director for Research at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program gain and Dr. Ying Chen, research associate),  it makes the case in its findings that married women were more optimistic and had a greater sense of purpose. Their findings’ were striking. The…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way

We sometimes forget that, as recently as the 19th century, people suffered through gruesome surgeries without anesthesia. The first part of the 20th century saw only slow progress in clinical medicine. Even by the early 1970s, doctors, for the most part, could only observe the human devastation caused by serious diseases. Physicians had little in…
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Health lifestyles

AWAKENINGS

Spring, a time of awakening. Everything is clear and fragrant. “Live in each season as it passes:  Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” Henry David Thoreau Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. By finding beauty in the ordinary , you can add…
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Declutter Your Mind

“If you don’t know what to do with it, or where to put it, or why you ever bought it in the first place, or if looking at it depresses you, throw it out,”  say Leslie Raycraft my friend and CEO of Posh Organizing in Connecticut. According to Gail Blanke, a personal life coach, here…
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Brain Health

It’s Time to BREATHE

Studies have shown that increasing the flow of oxygen to the brain and lungs can help reduce stress and impose endurance.  As we face change in our world, just  a thought  to help you remember to breathe.
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Brain Health

Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!

Record your holy cow revelations.  Answer the big “why not?” questions. Make your own life…in dreams there are no impossibilities. Capture new ideas that encourage you to press on regardless.  Expand on those magical callings that give your heart wings.  Celebrate the dreamer in you. Life is the grand adventure and only a life worth…
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