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Hi! I’m Huffington blogger and New York Times best-selling health writer and journalist, Alison Rose Levy, now serving health consumers as Communications Director of the Better Health Campaign. (Read my HuffPo blogs here.)

For the last twenty-five years, I’ve traveled this country reporting on full spectrum health—health care that embraces and includes all options in health practice—because we need all effective approaches to attain good health.

In conversations with leading health experts, top hospital administrators, and world-renowned doctors and scientists, they’ve all told me one thing:

“We’re helpless. Consumers alone have the power to transform our health care system into one that truly serves health.”

The bottom line is: You have the right – and the responsibility to choose your health care. Through the Health Journalist ezine and blog, my goal is to empower, inform, and connect you with the community of consumers and healers who choose Proactive Health.

Proactive Health:

  • Clarifies options to give you, the health consumer, the know-how and authority to make health decisions
  • Includes full spectrum health options, rather than excluding traditional and innovative approaches
  • Goes beyond symptom management to address causative factors
  • Protects the right to consumer health choice
  • Builds connection to a community of consumers and health experts

Proactive health options can tip the balance towards health and away from disease. Join me and leading health experts in our upcoming blog and forum to change the conversation about health care to a proactive and empowered one.

Understanding the Health Process

Both health and disease are connected in a dynamic process of inter-relationship on-going all the time.

We become aware of this process and seek out healing when the body signals a health imbalance and manifests symptoms.

There are four styles of relationship with your health process:

  • Proactive: Actively enacts full spectrum health choices that build and maintain health process before symptoms manifest
  • Responsive: Gets health wake up call and seeks out options to reverse the disease process and regain health process
  • Suppressive: Chooses health options that control symptoms without addressing causative factors and permit (or increase) development of disease process
  • Reactive: Develops advanced disease processes with reduced options for disease management

Without choice and information, people are driven into the Reactive style of health care. When you wake up and become Proactive, you access (and assure) a full spectrum of health care options.

Proactive Health Principles:

  • Consumer rights and authority to make health care choices
  • Addressing multiple factors that contribute to disease process
  • Accessing multiple synergistic approaches that contribute to health process
  • Health programs tailored to the individual
  • Health and disease process are linked to environment (physical, social, societal, and global)
  • Health options are made available through responsive consumer-oriented socio-economic structures and public policy

Proactive Health means joining together to assure societal systems that serve health first.

Your health is too important to leave to chance.It’s vital to make informed choices and guarantee your rights to the best health options for you!


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Tune into Deepak Chopra, a founding member of the Better Health Campaign, in conversation with Rustum Roy, James S. Turner, and Alison Rose Levy. Click Here

What About Insurance Coverage?

As a journalist I attended early screenings of Sicko and spoke with Michael Moore (go to my Sicko blogs) and I whole-heartedly agree that health insurance needs to be made widely available.

But as we transform our system, we also need to look at quality. Many highly effective, lower cost, health-enhancing methods are needlessly excluded from consideration and coverage. The end result is poorer health at higher cost to all.

With so many treatments out there, no practitioner can possibly be expert in them all—but just because your gastro-enterologist doesn’t know yoga doesn’t mean that yoga lacks value. Instead of letting Ford have the say-so over Chevy, we need to include every form of expertise by supporting public policies and insurance plans that assure our right to full spectrum care.


Alison Rose Levy is a much-published writer with 20+ years experience creating communications for major media, focusing on integrative health, lifestyle, yoga, psychology, and spiritual transformation in such publications as... More
Since 1990, I’ve been writing, reporting, and contemplating the manifold dimensions of health in
bestselling books, national magazine articles, blogs, TV and radio programs, and websites. Contact
the Better Health Campaign at Alison@health-journalist.com or visit my Huffington Post blogs here

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