Take Charge of Your Health
6th Search for the Healthy City 2011
The sixth Search for the Healthy City study tour was held in Italy, September 1 - 11, 2011, in beautiful Florence and Tuscany. During this residential seminar participants discussed classics of medical history and public health and visited healing and cultural sites...
Hear Birke Baehr Discuss What’s Wrong With Our Food System
In this amazing video 11-year-old Birke Baehr talks about what industrial farms are really like. He presents a fresh point of view about why we need green and sustainable food production.
New national health care quality strategy
The new national health care quality strategy is designed to promote better health and higher quality care for Americans. This is the first time the federal government has put forward a national strategy to guide local, state and national efforts to improve quality...
Plague of Plenty Spreading Around the World
What are the fattest countries in the World? Check out the Peter Smith's recent post about the country-by-country report on obesity from the Imperial College London, Harvard University, and the World Health Organization. For even more information try the health...
Lack of Competition Among Insurance Companies
New AMA study shows that most health insurance markets are dominated by one or two health insurers Health insurance is expensive in the U.S. Most American families who get insurance through their job pay around one in five (15-25%) of their healthcare dollars to an...
Are Sweet Drinks Poison?
The following lecture is a real must for anyone who wants to understand the biochemical roots of the obesity epidemic and what we need to do to turn it around. See Sugar: The Bitter Truth on YouTube a lecture by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in...
The Health Care Americans Deserve for Christmas
Americans deserve a health care system that embodies fundamental American values. What would such a system look like? The HealthCARE principles advocated by Healthy Memphis Common Table (HMCT), Health, Choice, Access, Responsibility and Education, point the way. ...
New Release Available in Bookstores
Affiliate link
The Healthy City is an independent publisher based in Memphis, Tennessee