At the end of last year, the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation sponsored a half-day gathering of public health folks, nutritionists, researchers and others to discuss diet, exercise and kids.  The Foundation Board voted earlier in 2007 to focus the Foundation’s efforts over the next several years on these three topics - which we’ve branded, “Growing Up […]

Dr. Ron Leopold, a VP at MetLife and my fellow panelist at the New England Human Resource Association’s recent convention, also tee’d up a Wall Street Journal poll that had people buzzing. Apparently, the Journal had surveyed several thousand employees in 2003 and asked them if it would be fair to require people who live […]

In June, the New England Healthcare Institute published a study called “The Boston Paradox: Lots of Health Care, Not Enough Health.” Basically, the study said that Boston’s status as a world class health care center had not stemmed a rising tide of preventable illnesses and chronic disease throughout the local population.

I bring this study up because […]