What’s Missing in Worksite Wellness? For Starters, How About REAL Wellness? A Suggested Focus for Better Programming

March 6, 2015

by Donald B. Ardell, Ph. D. 03.01.15

Introduction

Workplace wellness programs consist of screenings for health risks and disease states. Programs largely consist of lectures on illness prevention and managing stress, exercising, eating healthier foods and other offerings, the intent of which is to reduce medical utilization and sickness.

Little or no attention is devoted to quality of life enhancement. This is curious, since that is what wellness was designed to promote. This quality of life concept was first described by Halbert L. Dunn in the 1960’s and 70’s.

More info

TPJ MAG

Brave New World Order: the Difference between GOD and the GOP-PART II

March 6, 2015

By Mickey Walker-February 8, 2015

Turn, turn, my wheel, all things must change,
To something new, something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.

‘Keramos-The Potter’s Wheel’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 –1882)

Yes, it is quite certain that everything changes. And that change we might call a perception, a belief. Of what, one might ask? Say a perception of reality, perhaps. As a child we have little problem with our visual senses. We come to count on certain realities we know to be in place. Out skin tells us when it is hot outside and when it is cold.

More info

TPJ MAG

Brave New World Order: the Difference between the GOP and God-PART I

February 8, 2015

By Mickey Walker-February 8, 2015

“TURN, TURN, my wheel (world); all things must change,
To something new, something strange,”
‘Keramos’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 –1882)

When I was a young boy, reality was everywhere: it was in the trees, the Cardinals and Blue Jays, the bluest sky and clean air that filled your lungs and made your heart leap. Reality lingered in the tufts of cauliflower clouds, even though a freckled-faced boy of 10 imagined them to be

More info

TPJ MAG

The Greek Earthquake

February 8, 2015

By Conn Hallinan - 01.28.15

Almost before the votes were counted in the recent Greek elections, battle lines were being drawn all over Europe. While Alexis Tsipras, the newly elected Prime Minister from Greece’s victorious Syriza Party, was telling voters, “Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity, fear and autocratic government,” Jens Weidmann, president of the German Bundesbank, was warning the new government not to “make promises it cannot keep and the country cannot afford.”

On Feb. 12 those two points of view will collide when European Union (EU) heads of state gather in Brussels.

More info

TPJ MAG

The Suicide of Capitalism

February 8, 2015

By STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH - 01.29.15

"Suicide" means, literally, killing oneself. Most often, suicide is voluntary. However, by definition, it can be involuntary as well, as in accidentally killing oneself while cleaning a loaded handgun (which apparently people do from time-to-time) or accidentally shutting oneself in a car with thenegine running and the windows closed. Capitalism, the world's dominant socio-economic system, is in the process of involuntarily killing itself. Like the cleaner of a loaded hand-gun, capitalism thinks that there is absolutely nothing to worry about, that whatever it is doing will result in no harmful outcomes, and that anyone who tells it not to do such a thing is a hoaxer of

More info

TPJ MAG

The Tale of Two Parties

February 8, 2015

By Loren Adams, 02.08.2015

Have American progressives given up on reforming the country before sea levels crush Manhattan and Miami? I have. For several reasons.

The two-party system is the primary, not that I subscribe to the theory “both-sides-do-it.” Because they don’t. The false equivalency may be carried on by marshmallow pundits on Sunday news programs, but in reality one party advocates for the destruction of the middle class and the other tolerates their absurdities. In the sense that the general public and working class are in decline by design, both parties are at fault.

More info

TPJ MAG