Health

So, over at Aleteia this weekend I spent some time with Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain. Ultimately there were a few things which kept me from completely liking it, but I have to give the film its due. Bay has…

I weigh less now, at 29 years old, than I did in 7th grade, when my nickname was “Sarah the Whale”. My weight has been a battle for most of my life. I was a cute, chubby kid when I…

Ah, Christmastime. No matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, we always try to make this time of year as pleasant as humanly possible for our children don’t we? Why, I bet if the zombie apocalypse were to ever actually…

In order to give the reader a sense of the environment that I faced in the early 1980s when I was just beginning to explore the relationship between religion and health, it will help to have a little background on…

Medicine and Religion: Twin Healing Traditions

by Harold G. Koenig, MD January 9, 2012

Many today might think that religion and medicine are two very different endeavors, that the mere suggestion that religion is relevant to health and healthcare is something new and different. However, this is not true.  What is new and different…

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Big Fat Believers and the Expanding Bottom Line

by Harold G. Koenig, MD December 27, 2011

Interestingly, of all the health behaviors, weight and weight-loss is the one that is worse among those who are more religious. Research has repeatedly shown that religious people weigh more than atheists and the non-religious. Could this be because eating…

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Are You Saved?

by Cheryl Dickow December 8, 2011

December 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
“Have you been saved?” Maybe you have been asked that by one of our Protestant brothers or sisters. If our Blessed Mother had been asked, she could have given the loudest ”Yes!” the…

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