WELLNESS - is it different to being healthy ?

The lubrication in my knee seems to be working but now my left ankle is hurting and making me limp. I do not like limping - it makes me feel old. I remember Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy making a limp look sexy but it's not for me. My left shoulder still hurts once in a while after I fell off a high bar and landed on one shoulder. Altogether this has given a new importance to an old interest in wellness.


The New York Times has an excellent Wellness site.
The healthy heart quiz is a must for anyone.
Knees and ankles are a big interest currently and the advice on arthritis makes a lot of sense.

You'd assume that there must be a Wellness Institute and so there is in the shape of the National Wellness Institute. Remember that it's a commercial organization, not a government thing, but it's been around 30 years and that says something for it. Their wellness quiz's are well worth the time.

Real Age operate along similar but much more commercial lines. The idea behind real age is to find out your 'biological' age as compared to your chronological age - less is better. To do this Real Age has a long and quite complicated questionnaire which is a real test of honesty in answering it.

Of course there is a difference between getting back to being healthy and a genuine long-term quest for wellness. Wellness.com - The Healthy Living Community does both and then goes the extra step to include pets as well.

Going back a long way, wellness and alternative medicine pretty much meant the same thing. As main stream medicine has increased its scientific content [ i.e. the number of time doctors prescribe the pink medicine placebo seems to be down sharply], wellness and alternative medicine (and alternative nutrition) are fast going in different directions.

There must be thousands of doctors blogging but many, perhaps most, are daily forced to face the organization of health care and so blog on the difficulties they face. James Gaulte is a retired doctor and this seems to allow him much more freedom to write about wellness as well as unhealthy.

In Sickness and in Health is right over the line towards dealing with sickness but does it very well.

In Search of a Healthy Life
It has to be more than healthy eating or healthy exercise or even just avoiding accidents but it's not easy.

Barbara Mendez at Lifestyle Nutrients does a good job of bridging the gap between therapies and prevention but for me is just a tad to enthusiastic about detoxifying the digestive system.