Happier Studies show that those who are financially secure are happier. You don’t need to be a multimillionaire to be financially secure. Financial security has certain benefits. In the first place you sleep better at night knowing your needs are taken care of. Moreover, those who are financial independent have a degree of agency (or …
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Bad Advice I’m a doctor. I am not a financial expert. So you’re right to wonder why you would want to take financial advice from a doctor. Well, it turns out that our health is heavily impacted by our spending (see here). Moreover, the vast majority of financial “experts” will give you bad advice. Even …
As you might imagine, there’s been lots of research on the factors that determine happiness. If you read Health in Flames, you know that the determinants of happiness seem to coincide with those factors that engage the body, the mind, or the soul of the human person in some way. And in the book, I …
How does consumerism (the purchasing of goods and services) lead to the sad state of health in America? The link between our spending habits and our health is not at all obvious at first. It’s natural to be skeptical of the claim that consumerism is in fact the driving force for the rise of chronic …
John Maynard Keynes Predicted Most of us would only Work 15hrs a Week In his essay, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, written in 1930, Keynes predicted that in a hundred years (or by 2030), people would only need to work about 15 hours a week. He predicted the economy would grow nearly 8-fold by that …
That’s a shocking claim from my soon to be published book, Health in Flames. Let me explain. According to a 2016 study by the Mayo Clinic only 2.7% of American adults met well established standards for healthy living. This study looked at four factors: normal weight healthy diet exercise non-smoking Let explore how the researchers …
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Our Health Problem Let me give you an idea what this book is about and how it came to be. I’ll also mention a little about me. I’m a family doc. I work at a multispecialty clinic in the beautiful city of Austin, Texas. I’ve had the privilege of heading and overseeing the population health …
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