Healthy Living Blog
Here you’ll find information and advice on healthy living from Ed Dodge, M.D., as well as dispatches from Africa (where he taught health sciences), glimpses into his own healthy lifestyle, and more.
Much of this content was published first on Dr. Dodge’s original blog, so if you have followed him at The Joys of Healthy Living blog at WordPress.com, you are in the right place!
Research shows that healthy lifestyles lower the risk of disorders like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and stroke that plague our society. An editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association stated in September 2009: Initiatives aimed at improving lifestyle behaviors have the largest influence on reducing the future burden of disease.
In other words, you have more personal health power than anyone else, even your doctor! Dr. Dodge’s desire is to help you use your own health power effectively.
Larry Kies called me about 5 PM yesterday to ask if I wanted to play a quick set of tennis before dark. I said, “Sure – I’ll be there in five minutes.” When I got to his house, something else had commanded everyone’s attention. Carly Kies, (their 18-year old daughter)…
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This is one of our part-time MPH classes that meets every other weekend. These students have full time health-related jobs, but are so eager to earn an Master of Public Health degree that they come to campus for about 12 hours of class every other weekend. They’re a neat group!
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Another busy week has flown by. It’s been an interesting week. My MPH students gave their presentations in class on Wednesday. I was well impressed with what they are doing for themselves and their families by way of healthy lifestyle actions. Most have cut back on sugar and other highly…
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It’s been an interesting week. Friday we interviewed about forty candidates for the next MPH Block-Release Class that starts in June. There were over a hundred applicants for twenty available slots, showing what high demand there is for this program. We had two interview teams, with our team interviewing twenty…
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