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Courage

Step Forward Into Growth—Rethink Your Health

“You will either step forward into growth or will step back into safety.”  Abraham Maslow Think Health for A Change  is a “call to action” for each of you. Integrating positive health choices into each ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Brain Exercises Can Keep You Mentally Sharp

The brain is involved in everything we do and, like any other part of the body it needs to be cared for.  According to Healthline’s Sara Lindberg:  “Research has shown that there are many ways ...
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Mental Health

Health is… Being Clear on What You Really Want

It is very hard to change a habit, even a small one. Let us say I wanted to change something—anything.  I would need to post reminders on the mirror. When I caught myself doing it ...
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allergies

HealtheGoals—Rethinking Your Health

Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a person to comply with these instructions does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders to take a ...
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Health lifestyles

Be Happy At Home

There’s No Place Like Home  (Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz) Your lifetime is primarily enjoyed in your home. Where else can you be happier than in the privacy of the environment you created and ...
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Chronic Diseases

Science Says: MOVE MORE

According to a recent study, short spurts of physical activity can make a big difference. Researchers estimated that more than 110,000 deaths could be prevented each year if US adults ages 40-85 added 10 minutes ...
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Health lifestyles

How To Save A life

What if you could save a life—or even three—in just an hour? You can, by giving blood. Every two seconds in the U.S., trauma survivors, cancer patients, people with chronic diseases and many others need ...
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asthma

An Energetic Walk is No Silly Workout

Intensifying your fitness routine could come from the simplest change possible: how you put one foot in front of the other. Walking with more “push” can burn as many calories as higher-impact activities such as ...
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Marilyn Shreve, TIP Health,
Health lifestyles

Find Your Exercise Inspiration

Having a workout routine you like isn’t just fun—it helps keep you coming back for more.  If you are still trying to find your exercise groove, try one (or more) of these ideas: ENJOY THE ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

The Future of Wireless WELLNESS is Now

  Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pioneer in using technology-assisted healthcare to expand the clinician’s voice and reach beyond the walls of traditional practice settings and into a patient’s everyday life. In the past few ...
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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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