Category: health

No bad health

November 2, 2006 | 3 comments

In thinking through the true nature of health yesterday, I realized there’s no such thing as bad health. Believing in bad health is like believing in bad honesty, or bad love, or bad compassion. “Bad health” is a contradiction of

0 in 7

November 1, 2006 | 2 comments

Have you ever noticed ads by pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, or health-focused foundations that predict odds of people catching a particular disease? They read something like: “1 in 7 people will get [fill in the illness] by age 65.” These ads

Eating the right amount

October 29, 2006 | 6 comments

I momentarily marveled this morning at our son’s ability to stop eating when he’s had enough food. He’s always been able to say no to over eating. He can have a whole plate of food before him, take a few

Cosmetic surgery’s dark side

October 27, 2006 | 2 comments

With the surge of people racing to cosmetic surgeons for liposuction, tummy tucks, botox injections and a myriad of other surgical and nonsurgical procedures to alter their bodily appearance, it’s heartening to find one articulate voice warning people to think

Your right place

October 25, 2006 | 2 comments

An article titled “Our place,” printed in the Christian Science Journal, Vol. I, #5, December 1883. I believe that God has given to everyone a place, and in this harmonious creation there is no void, – nothing left out, nothing