Tag Archives: Health and Wellness

Better Medicine: Healthy Living Wellness and Self Help Guides

Better Medicine Site Provides Users With Easy Access to Information on Wellness

Better Medicine Healthy Living Information

If you care about your personal health, both in terms of whatever medical conditions might be plaguing you at any given time, as well as your general and total picture of wellness, then you’re likely among the thousands of Internet users who every day scour various websites in search of authoritative and informative answers to the questions surrounding healthy living.

So how do you decide which sites are worthy of your time and attention? Where do you look for guarantees that the information has been vetted by trained medical professionals, whether they’re of the western medical variety or a more holistic eastern approach?

Take, for example, a site like Better Medicine, which in its mission statement, offers that they strive “to provide the most complete, objective and helpful health information on the web.” In order to do this, they have created what they refer to as “health centers,” or easy to use categories of information pertinent to and divided by age and gender. Women’s health issues like birth control options and OB/GYN information are categorized under the Women’s Health Center, for example, making navigation of the site very straightforward. And sussing out quality information from the not-so-helpful surely starts with how that information is organized. Continue reading

Understanding the Concept of Wellness

What Is Generally Meant by the Word Wellness: An Introduction
Wellness: Meditation on Cherry Blossoms
Wellness equals personal responsibility: first one must decide to commit to a healthy lifestyle, one that is comprehensive and consistent. The only thing that typically prevents one from this state is the inability to take that first step. Though there is an endless amount of gurus, practitioners, books, events and diets, the reality is that wellness is completely in the control of the individual. No one and nothing can “make you well.” Instead, you must consciously decide to create wellness for yourself. Continue reading