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VOLUME THREE ISSUE FOUR
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Happy New Years and Old Times’ Sakes
… and other clichés. We are past the New Year; at the advent of a new Administration; and summing up the old, variously cheerful or fearful of the future. Are these usual January thoughts? Not this year.
It is more than the usual annoyance of remembering to stop writing“ 2016” on checks and letters. And even more than correcting ourselves when we refer to the latest host of“ The Tonight Show” or call the President by name. There are changes afoot in American society. We have the feeling that a mere strange election was not a blip on the screen; that political discourse, debate, amity, and respect are becoming extinct. That dissatisfactions once endured are now unbearable.
Remember the character in the 1970s movie Network, the newsman Howard Beale who started a national revolution by yelling,“ I’ m mad as hell and I’ m not going to take it any more”? Decades have passed, but I wonder whether America has reached that boiling-point.
Surely things will be changing in Washington, in Michigan, in our towns. If you haven’ t noticed by now, Innovative Health Magazine is a magazine not only for your sickroom or kitchen or gym or vets’ organizations or rehab clinics. We are in those places – in local editions, Florida edition, and exciting national online edition – but also at the barricades, as it were.
The issues affecting your health and wellness are more than the new devices we highlight, the brilliant doctors and technicians among us, the innovating on the cutting edges of health and wellness. We cover those categories like bloodhounds on the scent. And issues affecting our veterans; and our seniors. And specific crises at hand, like the Flint Water Crisis.
But. We realize that times, they are a-changin’. As the year turns, as profound impulses for change and reform have overtaken the nation, so IHM will follow them for you, our readers. We will continue to be your guide through increasingly troubled waters.
Most magazines’ Letters from Editors or Publishers usually tell you what is in the issue you hold in your hands. A Table of Contents with more hot air. I try to avoid that … but here I would like to tell you what’ s ahead in Innovative Health Magazine in the subsequent issue, and for 2017.
We will keep an eye on the Flint Water Crisis, even as the nation and the world do. I recently attended a protest meeting of self-proclaimed policy experts who all agreed the“ System” sourced the“ polluted Flint River” to precipitate
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the health crisis. In fact IHM showed, last issue, how the River is cleaner than average; it was pipes and infrastructure that brought contaminants. Education is one of our goals as we address difficult issues.
We have obtained an exclusive interview with Dr Bennet Omalu, the scientist who diagnosed and exposed sports injuries that is turning the worlds of football and competitive sports upsidedown. Dr Omalu’ s autobiography Concussion was the basis of the movie starring Will Smith. We proudly will share his story – insightful and inspiring – next issue.
Will TrumpCare follow ObamaCare? How much will change? Will anything of importance change? What will it mean for you? Doctors, insurance executives, average patients, regulators speak out in our next issue … and as long as this debate is unsettled.
No Fault Automobile Insurance. Michigan’ s model is admired nationwide, and being studied for other states, for instance Florida. Yet Michigan’ s success means that Big and Vested Interests are gunning for it. To end it; gut it;“ reform” it to death … its continued operation is in as much jeopardy as ever. Innovative Health Magazine will be on the job, explaining issues, holding truth to power, and forecasting the battles ahead.
Our national online issue innovativehealthmag. com will spotlight all these topics and much more – videos … news … interviews … events … check us out daily!
And you will follow, with us, our groundbreaking coverage of veterans’ issues; seniors; and the challenges of the neuro-trauma and disabled communities. And remember that our definition of“ health and wellness” encompasses all aspects of a positive lifestyle – recipes, exercises, therapies, healthy foods, alternative innovations in approaching your physical and emotional wellbeing!
Yes, let’ s make it a healthy and Happy New Year!
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