Category Archives: Personal
Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes: Is America Finally Waking Up?
This week Gallup released some interesting info on health and well-being in the US. Some years ago Gallup teamed up with Healthways Well Being to create the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index, which measures the general health of the US.
New Health Care Developments Promote Patient/Consumer Involvement in Care
The Federal Government is involving itself in encouraging each of us to take better ownership of our own health care while still protecting privacy. I certainly think that’s a good thing. Of course, much of the unwillingness of carriers and doctors to make this info available has come about because the Federal government intervened in [...]
How Do They Know???
There’s an old joke about three guys trying to identify what they thought was the most impressive, amazing invention mankind ever made. First guy suggests the transistor. History making, world changing. Second guy says no, the transistor pales by comparison to the airplane. Saved more lives, changed more lives than any other invention. Third guy [...]
Childhood Obesity and the Government
It’s a health concern, clearly. One in three kids are obese, according to the Administration. Their solution? What else? The government to the rescue. They’re suggesting that food manufacturers refrain from doing ANY marketing of sugary, fatty stuff to kids. If not, then the FCC will TELL them what they can do. Moreover, schools should [...]
Sorry for Not Posting
Sorry, but I’ve missed the last 10-12 days. I was at a marketing seminar for five days and in Mexico because of the death of my sister for three days. So I haven’t blogged. I’m starting with this apology today, and I’ll post some more stuff over the weekend and into next week. Jim
On To Ljubljana!
Last post, a week or so ago, was about Zagreb, which we loved. After that we moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia. It’s about 100 miles west of Zagreb. Anyhow, we decided to drive to Ljubljana by way of the birthplace of Josip Broz Tito, long-time Yugoslavian dictator leader. To get there, we chose to go via [...]
Zagreb, Part 2
I posted some stuff from Zagreb, which was a wonderful city. We only had three days there, and in fact we missed the Botanical Gardens, right near our hotel, because we just didn’t have enough time — but I’m thinking one more day (we were there three days) would have been overkill. But let me [...]
Zagreb
So after seven days (well, more than six, less than a full seven) we boarded a plane for Zagreb. Now if you look at a map you might think that would be easy. After all, Zagreb is due north of Santorini… But you’d be wrong. YOu can’t get there from Santorini, unless, of course, you’re [...]
On to Santorini
After our third day in the Greek Islands, we traveled to Santorini. We decided to take the ferry, a delightful way to go from place to place in the islands. At first I was bummed out that there was no way to stand outside on the ferry, which is a catamaran that holds well over [...]
Vacation… part 2
So, OK, when we last left off, we were on Mykonos and I posted some pictures of the hotel, which, candidly, was at least as much a part of the enjoyment as Mykonos Town itself. But the town was exciting, too. We didn’t have a car, as our hotel provided shuttles into and from town [...]