Health for life

With the dawn of 2011, there’s been a pretty neat uptick in traffic here at Cheap Healthy Good. If you’re visiting the blog for the first time, welcome! We’re so happy to have you. Bathroom’s on the left. If you’re a longtime reader, we love you! We’re not kidding. Its a little scary.

To get an idea of what CHG is all about, our FAQ and mission statement are good places to begin. To go a little deeper, these six posts give a pretty solid overview of what we do here:

1. Spend Less, Eat Healthier: The Five Most Important Things You Can Do
2. Dr. Veg-Love, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Seasonal Produce
3. The Circular Game: Decoding Your Supermarket Weekly
4. How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just by Looking at it
5. Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People
6. Relax, Frugal Eater: A Measured Approach to Lifestyle Changes

Our master article directory of over 150 similar pieces can be found here. We also post one or two frugal, healthy, and delicious recipes per week, which are compiled here. There are over 400 right now, and we’re always adding to the list. Here are ten fairly simple favorites to get you started:

• Asparagus, Mushroom, and Parmesan Frittata
• Baked Apples
• Egg Drop Soup
• Honey-glazed Roasted Carrots
• Indonesian Curried Bean Stew
• Light(er) Macaroni and Cheese
• Pumpkin Orzo with Sage
• Roast Chicken with Two Lemons
• Sweet Lassi
• Wacky (Chocolate) Cake

Hope you’re enjoying the blog so far. We’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions, and best of luck with your resolutions!

With the dawn of 2010, there’s been a pretty neat uptick in traffic here at Cheap Healthy Good. If you’re visiting the blog for the first time, welcome! We’re so happy to have you. Bathroom’s on the left. If you’re a longtime reader, we love you! We’re not kidding. Its a little scary.

To get an idea of what CHG is all about, our FAQ and mission statement are good places to begin. To go a little deeper, these six posts give a pretty solid overview of what we do here:

1. Spend Less, Eat Healthier: The Five Most Important Things You Can Do
2. Dr. Veg-Love, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Seasonal Produce
3. The Circular Game: Decoding Your Supermarket Weekly
4. How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just by Looking at it
5. Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People
6. Relax, Frugal Eater: A Measured Approach to Lifestyle Changes

Our master article directory of over 135 similar pieces can be found here. We also post one or two frugal, healthy, and delicious recipes per week, which are compiled here. Theres something like 300 right now, and we’re always adding to the list. Here are ten fairly simple favorites to get you started:

• Asparagus, Mushroom, and Parmesan Frittata
• Baked Apples
• Egg Drop Soup
• Honey-glazed Roasted Carrots
• Indonesian Curried Bean Stew
• Light(er) Macaroni and Cheese
• Pumpkin Orzo with Sage
• Roast Chicken with Two Lemons
• Sweet Lassi
• Wacky (Chocolate) Cake

Hope you’re enjoying the blog so far. We’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions, and best of luck with your resolutions!

With the dawn of 2012, comes the dawn of many a resolution. If you’re visiting the blog for the first time, welcome! We’re so happy to have you. Bathroom’s on the left. If you’re a longtime reader, we love you! We’re not kidding. Its a little scary.

To get an idea of what CHG is all about, our FAQ and mission statement are good places to begin. To go a little deeper, these six posts give a pretty solid overview of what we do here:

1. Spend Less, Eat Healthier: The Five Most Important Things You Can Do
2. Dr. Veg-Love, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Seasonal Produce
3. The Circular Game: Decoding Your Supermarket Weekly
4. How to Tell if a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just by Looking at it
5. Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People
6. Relax, Frugal Eater: A Measured Approach to Lifestyle Changes

Our master article directory of over 150 similar pieces can be found here. We also post one or two frugal, healthy, and delicious recipes per week, which are compiled here. There are over 400 right now, and we’re always adding to the list. Here are ten fairly simple favorites to get you started:

• Asparagus, Mushroom, and Parmesan Frittata
• Baked Apples
• Egg Drop Soup
• Honey-glazed Roasted Carrots
• Indonesian Curried Bean Stew
• Light(er) Macaroni and Cheese
• Pumpkin Orzo with Sage
• Roast Chicken with Two Lemons
• Sweet Lassi
• Wacky (Chocolate) Cake

Hope you’re enjoying the blog so far. We’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions, and best of luck with your resolutions!

That term wasnt immediately familiar to the Disease Management Care Blog either, but then it was reminded that it was a fixture in the book The House of God.  More on that in a second, but the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has created a new blog by that name. Called Wing of Zock, its an eclectic mix of writings on the intersections between health policy, society, medical education and patient care.  The DMCB says "Bravo!" and has added it to its Google reader and blog roll.

The DMCB is doubly intrigued because The House of God has come a long way.  When it was first published, its unflattering and darkly humorous portrayal of medical internships was condemned by many senior academicians as an insult to the profession.  While its fellow housestaff were freely quoting from it during patient rounds, the DMCB remembers attendings who were proud that they hadnt read it.  The disdain spilled over into the medical science journals, which treated the book with the same kind of vitriol recently directed by physicians at the television series, House.

Lessons?

In a delicious bit of irony, the staid AAMC has shown it has a sense of humor while launching its excellent blog.

Social media-based writing is increasingly becoming a fixture in the academic medical landscape. Deans and Chairs ignore that at their peril.

The DMCB will need to reexamine its attitudes about House. What inspiration will todays medical interns draw from the "Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" and how will that play out in the coming decades when theyre the ones leading the health care system?