Jan 23, 2012
February is Heart Month
A healthy diet and lifestyle are the best weapons you have to fight heart disease. Here's the tough part, though - The choices we make are shaped by the choices we have.
Individual behaviors - smoking, diet, drinking, and exercise - matter for health. But making healthy choices isn't just about self-discipline. Some neighborhoods have easy access to fresh, affordable produce; others have only fast food joints and liquor and convenience stores. Some have nice homes; clean parks; safe places to walk, jog, bike or play; and well-financed schools offering gym, art, music and after-school programs; and some don't.
For more information about health equity, go to Unnatural Causes.org and read 10 Things to Know about Health.
Health Begins Where We Live, Learn, Work and Play
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released four provocative essays about the role that non medical factors play in health.
Health Starts Where We Live
In America a person's health is influenced as much by the zip code they live in as the health coverage they have.
Health Starts Where We Learn
Eight times more lives can be saved with education than with medical advances.
Health Starts Where We Work - By investing more in the right ways
to support employees, businesses can help create a workforce that's
less stressed and more content.
Health Starts Where We Play
- A life without play is pretty grim - no sports, no books, no movies or art, no humor or irony. Without play, people become rigid in their thinking, stereotypical in their behavior and emotionally depressed.