This week, the Institute of Medicine convened hundreds of physicians, patient advocates, and policymakers in Washington, DC, for the Summit on Integrative Medicine.
Dr, Dean Ornish told the Huffington Post, “Integrative medicine uses the entire armamentarium, both traditional and nontraditional, to give an individual a full array of what they need to maintain and improve their [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines “health” as, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
WHO published this in the preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization, finalized in 1948. The Organization hasn’t changed the definition since then.
Sixty years later, it’s the right [...]

On February 24, 2009, President Obama told the Congress, “The state of our economy is a concern that rises above all others. And rightly so….You don’t need to hear another list of statistics to know that our economy is in crisis, because you live it every day. It’s the worry you wake up with and [...]

In and beyond the U.S., there’s a global trend that “health care” is morphing toward health. In the U.S., this is a critical turn for the better given that health care consumes 17 cents of every dollar spent in America. As a health economist, I’m very concerned about the rate of growth in health spending [...]

Some background on JSK: Thanks to Cheryl Greene, I’ll be sharing some personal perspectives on health this week with you here on DrGreene.com. I’d already felt a part of the Dr. Greene family due to my own use of the portal back in the mid-1990s after becoming a new mother with countless questions about what-to-do-with-a-new-baby. [...]

Tip #7:
If you know what you want to cook, it’s really easy to find great recipes online by doing a simple search. But what if you don’t know?
Besides a “fallback menu” I have a series of resources that I fallback on to get new ideas or just to remind me about recipes I’ve used in [...]

Tip #6:
As families become busier and busier with kids rushing from school to sporting practices, to music lessons, to drama rehearsals and as parents stay later-and-later at work, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to share family meals. We are just as guilty of this as anyone, but we do make a huge effort to share as [...]

Tip #4:
Around our house, birthdays and holidays are really a big deal. For those days, we go all out on the food. We have created menus that we use year after year for special days.

For birthday breakfast’s we splurge on homemade crepes with nut-butters, fresh fruit, and cheeses.
Our family celebrates Christmas with a traditional breakfast [...]

Tip #2
I have a list of staple items that I try to always keep on hand. From these items I have a few “fallback meals”. I know my family enjoys them, they’re quick and easy to make, and they’re nutritious. I use my “fallback meal” for those days when life just gets out of hand [...]

When I was in treatment for Stage III, High Risk, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, the amazing nurses from Mills-Peninsula Hospital Labor and Delivery brought us dinner … every night … for a full year … at least when one of Dr. Greene’s patients or my sister (the world’s best sister) wasn’t cooking for us. For a [...]