Real Age Calculator

Interested in calculating your biological age?  I just tried these two sites:

http://www.realage.com/the-you-docs/my-realage

This was took 15 minutes or so.  It was fairly comprehensive and gave me some interesting feedback.  If you have the time, this is a great resource for working on a health improvement plan.

http://www.sonnyradio.com/realage.htm

This was a much quicker survey.  That being said, it is much less comprehensive but still offered insights on changes I could make to impact my health.

Managing Diabetes without insulin?

A researcher at Children's Hospital in Boston is experimenting with a protein in the liver that, when artificially simulated, controls blood glucose levels without the use of insulin.  Research is providing an interesting potential option in the management of diabetes!  Click here for more information.

How to keep your kids Intuitive Eaters

This morning there was a very interesting piece on NPR talking about techniques for developing picky eaters into people who like a wider variety of foods.  Click on over  -- you might learn something that changes your eating behaviors, too!

Future Trends in Healthcare?

Check out this super thought provoking map depicting trends shaping our health care workforce 2010-2020. (if the graphic doesn't pop up, click the download PDF to view the map and scroll to page 2)

Does this map change your expectations for the future?

Why do I love Seth Godin????

He just might be more optimistic than I am about what each of us can accomplish in the world!

"The World is too much with us"....

...poet William Wordsworth complained over two hundred years ago.  "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."  Today many women would agree with him.  We're chronically exhausted from the "getting"-- the amount of energy spent earning a living and juggling the demands of home and career.  And the reality of the recession means we're paying now for the "spending" of yesterday.

But despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy.  For each of us, what that is will be different.  But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. 

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us.  We cannot let this continue to occur....
--an excerpt from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

It's amazing how the world never really experiences anything new -- it just keep turning.  Wordsworth wrote 200+ years ago, Sarah wrote the above in 1995 and here we are again, experiencing many of the same things.  The big question is, is it again? Or is it still?

Bullying statistics

A 2010 study by the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC) showed that 80 percent of girls and 53 percent of boys reported some type of bullying during high school.

Are you kidding me???  Are you talking to your kids about their experiences of bullying?

For more resources and information on bullying, click here.