Balance – The baseline for the health and welfare
We live in a time and a place of unusual abundance. A profusion of products and options available and accessible, and we used to getting what we want when we want. Of course, this generosity has a price. The 21st century demands a lot from everyone. We are 24 / 7 online. Communication is instantaneous and constant. With the information a click away, we seek, learn, modify, manipulate and disseminate from the moment we wake until our head hits the pillow at night. And thanks to new tools like Plurk, Twitter and TweetLater, and that we can continue our departure, even when we’re out like a light. But is this good? Does it help us? Are we good?
Consider this: In the United States today, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly 20% of adults-more than 40 million people are diagnosed with anxiety disorders. Many of these lead to, or co-occur with depression and / or addiction. Sounds like a problem.
Finding reliable online health information
The Internet is the source of a lot of information, and it’s getting easier and easier to bypass the usual authorities and locate information on their own. But if you want to find reliable online information on health, the amount of information you can trust? And when you need to know is as important as your health, how to know that information is reliable and what information you consider the best?
The problems of self-diagnosis