Meet Dr. Reed Tuckson

The latest report from The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids titled “Designed for Addiction: How the Tobacco Industry Has Made Cigarettes More Addictive, More Attractive to Kids and Even More Deadly” confirms what some have suspected: today’s cigarettes are more addictive, more attractive to kids and more deadly than 50 years ago. Smokers today, including the 2.7 million kids throughout the...

Check out the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services‘ website Be TobaccoFree.gov to learn more about the impact each of us can have to help decrease the number of tobacco smokers today! If we could help every smoker to stop smoking and keep young people from starting in the first place, the results would be staggering!  Click here or on...

Now that we’ve celebrated July 4th, the summer cooking season is in full swing! It’s never too late to practice food safety; so, as you prepare for the rest of this summer’s grilling, take a minute to read this article from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services titled “Think Food Safety When You Grill For a Cookout”.  In...

Guess what, folks? It’s time for a reminder regarding your annual doctor’s visit and to get the healthcare system working for Dr. You. This begins by placing yourself in the center of the process of “patient-centric” care.  Let’s start off by taking a look at Dr. You’s “Top Five Reasons For Going To a Yearly Check-Up”:   DR. YOU’S...

The CDC recently announced that the smoking rate among high school students dropped to 15.7 percent in 2013, down from 18.1 percent in 2011 – for a 57 percent decline since peaking at 36.4 percent in 1997 … this is encouraging progress; however, we have much more work yet to do!   According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids,...

The United Health Foundation recently released its America’s Health Rankings 2014 Senior Report.  I’d like to share a great article with you written by Elizabeth O’Brien, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch titled “The Healthiest States for Retirees”. The top five healthiest states are: Minnesota Hawaii New Hamshire Vermont Massachusetts The five least healthiest states are: Arkansas...