Guest Blog by Carol Torgan, Ph.D., FACSM
Overweight Child
School bus stops, food courts, video arcades – everywhere we look we see evidence of the often repeated stat that nearly one in three U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 through 19 years are overweight or obese.
In a recent briefing on childhood obesity held in Washington, D.C. to [...]

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
Good news, you can get fit and toned anywhere with simple exercises
My good friend works at a major company in NYC and she’s fortunate since she’s able to hit the gym on her lunch hour.  If you have a job that allows you the time to go to the gym, [...]

Guest Post By Alan Greene, MD
Participatory Medicine and the e-Patient
The Blind Spot
Right before our eyes there’s a dark hole in what we see. Not only don’t we see some of what’s right in front of our face, but we don’t even notice the gap. Our illusion of a seamless visual world is so strong that [...]

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA

Last week, I returned from Italy, Florence (Firenze) to be exact, a magical city in Tuscany, only to  to realize how much I miss the delicious Mediterranean food.
The little Trattorias (a little informal restaurant) can be found along the cobblestone streets through the narrow alleyways.
Actually, the alleyways are very much [...]

Tips on how to help yourself, and our hardworking nurses
Guest Post by Deborah O’Leary
Nurse and Child
As the health care reform debate ebbs and flows, and then ebbs some more, you may not be thinking very much about the nursing shortage, and how it could possibly affect you.
In fact, in the current economic climate, when unemployment [...]