Okay. I did it again. I put off writing about important medical tests. March was National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. I waited until the end of the month to write about it, just as I imagine people have put off colorectal cancer screening. As a quick reminder, you don’t have to get screened during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. You can get screened in any month. I did even worse in April. April was STD Awareness Month and here we…
A message from Mark and Margaret on the 39th anniversary of CHC: Greetings Margaret and I, want to extend a Happy 39th Birthday wish to everyone at CHC! What a month leading up to May 1st – our construction projects in Stamford and New London finished up – thanks to Adele and Alejandro for their leadership along with the their team of staff who have been working to coordinate the project – also, thanks to the staff who patiently go…
What is the role of social factors, such as income, work environment, social cohesion, food, and transportation systems, in determining the health risks of individuals? This is a question asked in the Wesleyan University course catalog for Sociology 315 – The Health of Communities and today I received some information to help me find an answer to this. It started off with a series of emails sent from an iPhone containing clips of the Project Summaries presentation for this year’s…
One day when my youngest daughter was in Kindergarten, she came home and told my wife that her yoga teacher said that someone had complained about yoga and the students would no longer be allowed to say Namaste at the end of class. Namaste is a common Hindi salutation which is sometimes translated, “The spirit in me respects the spirit in you”. Personally, I think there is great value in teaching children to show respect to those around them. However,…
Happy April Fool’s day everyone. Have you found any good pranks? One that everyone has been pointing out to me is Google Motion. One of the ideas that they present is that Google Motion is designed to increase physical activity by getting users out of their chairs and moving around. In a similar vein, one of the pranks suggested on DoSomething.org’s blog post, April Fools Pranks for Social Good suggests “Encourage some exercise. Snatch the keys to your friend’s car…
I love it when things line up just right, when several different events happen at about the same time in such a way that they can be woven into bigger story that makes a great blog post. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen, and National Nutrition Month is one such example. I am trying to get this blog post done before the end of the day when National Nutrition Month ends. There are plenty of other health issues that will take…