Community Health Promotion Can Work… It takes a long time, but ‘Yes We Can’ create healthier communities! by Jacqui Shumway In 2005, I was asked to become a part of a community health promotion project attempting to promote healthy lifestyles in the my economically diverse Park Hill Denver neighborhood. The “Park Hill Thriving Communities Summary…
Month: March 2017
“A disease of prosperity, obesity, threatens to overwhelm our health care system.” Weight loss, need not be the hardship most people perceive it to be. Changing your lifestyle can also be reframed as an adventure in active healthy living. Life is Qi! Life is energy! Calories are just a measurement of energy and the fact…
Metabolic Resistance and why it is so hard to lose weight. by Joseph Brady The concept of metabolic set point is a crucial element in the battle against obesity and allows us to understand why it is so hard to lose weight. Our metabolic set point is the point at which our metabolism settles into…
T’ai Chi Ch’uan or Tai Chi for short can be literally translated as “The Supreme Ultimate Exercise. The oldest medical book in the world is the 5000-year-old Yellow Emperor’s Classic it states: “It is the inferior doctor who waits for the patient to become ill. The superior doctor seeks to cultivate health and prevent disease….