Films Can Change Your Life (Interview)

Dimensions of wellness: Change your habits, change your life.

P eople often think about wellness in terms of physical health — nutrition, exercise, weight management, etc., but it is so much more. Wellness is a holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit (1). Although it always includes striving for health, it’s more about living life fully (1), and is “a lifestyle and a...

Can Competition Save Your Life?

How inclusive leadership can help your practice adapt to change.

Krista W. Bowers, MD, Michaela Robertson, MS, and Michael L. Parchman, MD, MPH W are in the third year of a study to improve diabetes care in 40 small primary care clinics. Practice facilitators are working closely with the physicians and staff in these clinics to implement the chronic care model (CCM), a forerunner of the patient-centered medical home. One dominant theme that has emerged fr...

Body Weight Can Change How Your Emotions Are Perceived

Accurately interpreting other's emotions through facial expressions has important adaptive values for social interactions. However, due to the stereotypical social perception of overweight individuals as carefree, humorous, and light-hearted, the body weight of those with whom we interact may have a systematic influence on our emotion judgment even though it has no relevance to the expressed em...

How New Thinking on Aging Will Change Your Life

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