Health and Wellness

The best health insurance a family can have is to become knowledgeable about how to prevent illness through positive lifestyle.  This is not to diminish the importance of a good traditional health insurance program but rather to foster living in ways that will make it so that the regular health insurance is more likely to be used for preventive measures rather than treating chronic illness. Knowledge is very important to developing a healthy lifestyle as well as intelligently participating with your physicians in preventing and/or treating illness. 

The purposes of this section are to:  (1).  Inform and inspire people in ways that motivate them to participate in a more healthy lifestyle (2)   Inform and motivate people to become more intelligent consumers of health services and products.

Initially these purposes will be facilitated (in the wellness section) by bibliographies and providing links to web sites which have valuable information about wellness, healthy lifestyle strategies, as well as disease prevention and and contemporary treatments.  FamilySOS does not specifically endorse the information provided by the materials included in the bibliography or in the web sites, however the materials and sites have been chosen because for the most part the information provided comes from reputable sources and is research based.  It is always important to compare information on a topic from multiple sources in evaluating what approaches seem best for a particular individual or family situations.

In the future this section will contain articles about specific health and positive lifestyle information and strategies concerning how to search out and intelligently  use health information and services.