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Death by Diet

by francine 12.11.2011

Until you have gone off the deep end on nutritional therapy as I have, a Western medicine aficionado has every reason to doubt its effectiveness. Thr only people who know how useful it is to tightly control the toxins, vitamins, and foods that go into their bodies are the people who MUST know: very sick [...]

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How to Avoid an Early Death

by francine 11.29.2011

As the widow of a doctor, I have devoted a lot of energy to thinking how to live to a healthy old age. Life extension theory has changed radically over the course of my life. When I was a kid, there was not much processed food, and we ate meat, vegetables, and potatoes, along with [...]

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You Can Get Your Health Data

by francine 09.26.2011

Here at Health 2.0 there is definitely an air of transformation. Several initiatives that I had been following have come to fruition, or at least to critical mass, among them implementation of EMRs and patient communities. MedHelp now has over 12 million visitors a month, while millions of women annually visit the women’s social health [...]

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Can We Lower Health Costs Through Prevention? Not so Fast

by francine 06.02.2011

Everyone in health IT is looking at the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless communications capacity and they are salivating. Now, they say, we are finally going to be able to monitor the vital signs, activity levels, food intake, lifestyle habits of patients and use all this information for prevention. Remote monitoring will bring about [...]

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