Health and Wellness Defined

Health can best be defined as the absence of disease. Wellness is best defined as the existence of positive health. So health and wellness can be best defined as the absence of disease in the presence of positive health.

Why the focus on health and wellness these days? I think modern medicine gets a failing grade. Obesity is epidemic in the American culture today. One of my patients knew that her weight was not healthy. However, her previous physician told her that she should learn to live with her new heavier weight and maybe the weight would level out. That statement haunted her and led her to find a physician who offered her more hope and solutions.

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Confession #13: What I Learned
During Summer Vacation

Do you remember the first day of school? It seemed like every year, in a new classroom with a new teacher, the same old question came up.

The question was always a derivative of these: summer activities, summer learning, what I did, what my family did, vacation destinations, etc. Sometimes the question involved an essay. I always enjoyed the essay. My husband? Not so much. Not an essayist. A great storyteller in person, for sure. But I am definitely the English-minded one of our family and he is solidly the math/science guy.

Putting pen to paper and developing the line of the the summer tale was, I think, an activity we all enjoyed, but at the same time, dreaded. It was great to tell of your summer travels and hope they sounded more interesting than those of the child in the neighboring desk. But jumpstarting the brain into putting all those sentences together on the first day of school was, well, let’s just say it required coffee but I was too young to drink coffee.

As the summer winds down, once again I put pen to paper. Well, actually, I put fingers to keyboard. And the tale begins. What have I learned during summer vacation?

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Seasons Wellness Clinic, located in beautiful north central Louisiana, is a wellness clinic dedicated to offering the latest advancements in traditional medicine with the most holistic approach to treatment possible. What began as the gynecology practice of Dr. Nathan Goodyear has become a destination for pursuing wellness. In addition to traditional gynecology, we offer a range of medical services addressing concerns from cellulite to urinary incontinence to sterilization to medical aesthetics. Our more holistic approach to wellness includes services such as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, food sensitivity testing and nutritional counseling, IV nutritional therapy, and much more. Click here to learn more