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What is normality? Who is normal?

This sounds like a simple question but not very easy to answer, I think. I was confronted with this when involved with clinical trials. We were trying to do two categories of people - normal and people with diabetes.

We were able to find lots of diabetics (unfortunately!!). However, we...

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The timing and relevance of wellness information

While grappling with this "how do you know you are well" question, I thought back to my roots at Hewlett-Packard (I spent 25 years with them during the glory days). They were a measurement company before they were a computer company. One of the fundamental principles of measurement is that the...

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Knowing about wellness

I first became aware of the incongruity between people feeling well and then succumbing when I heard about the runner Jim Fixx in 1984.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984...

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How do you know that you are well?

How do you know that you are well? Last year (2009) over 172 billion dollars was spent on being healthy and looking good. People have started and stopped weight loss programs, diets, exercise programs......How does anybody know whether these things are working? Would you have been successful if...

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