Posts Tagged ‘fully’

Up Next? Oral Health | The Health Care Blog

β€œCan you imagine a time when we fully incorporate mental and dental health into our thinking about health ? What is it about problems above the neck that seems to exclude them so often from policy about health care?” ... Read the rest of this entry »

Tea Party favorite introduces health care repeal – CNN Political …

Washington (CNN) -- Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint introduced legislation Wednesday to fully repeal the health care reform legislation passed last year and signed into law by President Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

What Is Wellness?

By Mikael Rieck Well, there are many ways that you can try to describe the concept of “Wellness” but some of the most widely used and the once that most people agree on are the following: • Absence of “dis-ease” • Feeling of well-being associated with a healthy environment • Feeling of well-being despite unhealthy environment • Ability to fulfill life’s demands and work towards a higher purpose • A purposeful life that ensures joy, love, health and longevity Who can be well? • Can a person who lost his feet in a war be a picture of wellness? No, although s/he is mentally and spiritually fit but not physically. There are exceptions where physically unfit person might be more active and successful in life like Craig Hutto who lost his right leg in a shark attack in 2005. A stand-out high-school baseball and basketball player, he has vowed to get back in the game Read the rest of this entry »