Social Networking  101 – wellness36 Style

I am simply amazed by the number of new members every day both joining the wellness360 Community and more importantly, taking advantage of our suite of free services:

• Diet diary
• Exercise Diary
• Health Risk Analysis
• Personal Health Record
• Long-term Paper Medical Records Storage, and
• er360 – wellness360’s free “Emergency Medical Record”

The flood of comments and encouragement are greatly appreciated.  This evening, however, I wanted to take a moment to stress the importance of the wellness360 Community Social Network.
 

Today, people across the globe are demonstrating the desire to expand their social connections through the growing options of online social network.  I certainly applaud every vendor of these services.  However, I feel compelled to ensure that each of our existing members and future members understand that not only is wellness360 Community a network for social interaction, it is a vehicle that enables you do so based on an amazing collection of characteristics.

Unlike other networks that attempt to derive relationships by prying into your writings and the music you enjoy, wellness360 Community allows connections to be made based on detailed, YET PRIVIATE, medical, diet, exercise and family information that makes up your wellness360 Personal Health Record.  As I mentioned, this information is kept private and we guarantee it with our $1 Million guarantee.

So, what’s the value of the wellness360 Community?  The answer is simple.  You will be allowed to define the types of individuals with whom you desire to establish a connection literally based on an infinite number of personal data and characteristics contained within an individual’s personal profile and personal Health Record.  PLEASE REMEMBER, ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION IS KEPT PRIVATE AND SECURE UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO SHARE IT.

Let’s look at a simple example.
Assumptions: For the sake of this example, let's assume that you are (1) a female, (2) over 45 that is diabetic, (3) 50 pounds overweight, (4) have children under the age of 15, (5) work a full-time job, and (6) live in Costa Mesa California. 

Your Objectives: Your goal is to find a group of woman that are similar to you so that you can develop an exercise support group of women that share common challenges, and even need to solve a child-care problem to enable all of you the time to exercise and support one another with your medical and dietary issues.  Additionally, you would like to interact with these people online to discuss challenges, physicians and even just build friendships.  Oh, and you want them to be no more than 10 miles away for convenience. 

The Solution: wellness360 Community enables you to define this group of people and at your discretion, make not just online connections but possibly “real-world” friendships to help each other.  I assure you, to develop this level of networking on myspace.com, facebook.com, and linkedin.com would not be easy.  But, with wellness360 Community it is part of our fundamental design.

The Bonus: Oh, least we forget, that as a part of wellness360, you are paid for developing and maintaining your social network.  Additionally, your friends that view your pages and read your blogs also enjoy the wellness360 cash rewards. 

Please don't forget, a great benefit of wellness360 is our "Invite a Friend" program.  For each friend you invite that joins wellness360 you share in the money they earn – TOTALLY RISK FREE!  To earn money as a wellness360 member you never have to pay one penny or purchase any products.  Our advertisers happily carry this burden to enable you to have the best experience possible and encourage you to be healthy.

Thank you for taking the time to read this evenings thoughts and l hope you ook for my next entry:

Next Entry: Social Networking 102 – Health Issues

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Thomas Banks, Chairman / CEO
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 Introduction to wellness360 and Aperture Health, Inc.

I am Thomas Banks, the CEO and founder of Aperture Health. I am honored that you have chosen to join us here at wellness360 Community and more specifically, my inaugural blog. 

• Personal Health Record: a comprehensive personal medical record which allows a member to track relevant data such as blood cholesterol, blood glucose as well as historical and family specific medical information.
• Health Risk Assessment: We at Aperture Health believe that members should not simply jump into a wellness strategy without information. Toward this end, each member is encouraged to take a simple 40 question Health Risk Assessment evaluating medical, social, lifestyle and genetic risks they face. In turn, members are encouraged to consult with their healthcare professional to plan a viable strategy toward a healthy and enjoyable future.
• Diet: wellness360 includes a comprehensive diet management and journaling system enabling a member to easily employ and track his or her diet activities.
• Fitness: Like diet, members may avail themselves of the wellness360 fitness service allowing easy tracking and planning of a member’s fitness activities and strategy. The results of diet and fitness are integrated providing members net calorie intake based on intake and exercise.
• Emergency Medical Record: One of the most valuable features of wellness360 is the Emergency Medical Record (“EMR”). wellness360’s EMR is an on-demand abbreviated medical record made available to Emergency Rooms. The record can be accessed online or via the wellness360 Interactive Voice Response system from an ambulance via cell phone. Aperture Health has a validated database of every emergency room in the US. As such, only valid hospitals may receive the faxed report ensuring privacy.
• Medical News and Research: One of the most sought after information on the Internet is medical and health information. wellness360 incorporates current news feeds, and one of the most comprehensive health databases available for its members benefit.
• Paper Medical Records Storage: In addition to dynamic medical and health information, a member may store his or her paper documents free of charge. At anytime, a member may initiate a “Medical Records” request from wellness360 and enable their doctor to fax in the member’s records. Or, the records may be uploaded directly by the member. This feature is provided as a public service for everyone should keep their paper medical records in their possession.
• Social Network: The social networking concept is certainly in vogue for 2008 and very likely beyond. The wellness360 social network strategy is more than just personal pages, it is designed to provide anonymous conduits to members with similar profiles – diet activity, fitness activities, medications, diseases, health risks, genetic propensities, etc.. With this unique mechanism for connectivity, members will be able to create an infinite number of possible channels specific to their unique needs.

Well my last blog asked for ideas on exercising when I have trouble just standing, let alone walking.  Ok, since then I had my first fall, just fell right over onto the concrete porch so, since then, I've been too intimidated to exercise.  I didn't get hurt, just wrenched my ankle and got some bumps and bruises.  The worst thing that happened is the blow to my, not sure how to phrase this, my ooph or the blow to my desire to exercise.  Falling has always scared me, I weigh a lot and any falls mean really big pain generally so I try not to fall as much as possible.  I'm not even entirely sure how I fell.  I dont' know if I tripped or if my ankle/leg gave out on me.  So now I have to work on getting brave enough to try exercising again.  I was trying the walking thing, short distances, sit, rest, short distance, sit, rest, etc.  I felt pretty good about it but, well, now I'm not doing that.   So, here I am searching for my courage like the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz.

Getting back on the treadmill.  Now that winter has arrived I cannot put it off any longer.

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Dear Diary,

Has anyone heard of Paltalk? It's an online chat place with hundreds of rooms. I'm not one for chat per se, but, I like these rooms because you can use a microphone in most of them and actually talk with everyone. I've joined a few rooms for mentally disabled and I find that I've been playing the roll of encourager and helping people find resources in their state. I'm so glad I can help people in some way. Right now I'm encouraging this young man to start speaking up and asking questions to get things done for him in his life. I'm trying impress upon him the importance of being assertive and aggresive, especially being disabled, because in today's society when you are disabled you are pretty much invisible and the only way to get things done and start the ball rolling is by speaking up and making yourself heard. I told him that he will eventually find his voice and use it when he sees how bad things are getting for him. It's that way with everyone, though. When you are finally sick and tired of being sick and tired that's when most people start getting more proactive.
I have a tentative appt with the vet tomorrow (Thursday) at 9:30 am. When Rachel, my housekeeper, comes by today at 1pm I'll ask her if that's a good time for her and if it is......................
Right now Rachel is living in Tijuana. Their family has a house down there. The only problem is I can't reach her by cell phone in Tijuana. So she gave me her husband's number. I don't know why his # would work and not hers. As it stands now I can leave messages on her cell phone, but, the only way she can retrieve them is when she drives near the border to get a signal. It's so crazy right now. If she had a computer we could at least e-mail or IM each other. Tijuana is only 40 minutes away, so, it's not that much of a commute. Well, if I'm going to the vet tomorrow I need to either shampoo my hair or at the very least comb it. I'm so bad about that.
Have a great day everyone and an even better one tomorrow!
Purrs,
Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

I discovered a BBQ bean dish that my family loves.  I used turkey bacon in place of fatty bacon. I have not been weighing myself and will try to get back on track now.

Staying fit over the holiday season is a challenge for most of us. Our routine is generally disturbed and keeping up with our healthy goals very much challenged.
 

• Before attending any social event, consider to eat a small snack such as a fruit bowl, a small salad made with vegetables, or a healthy smoothie. This will cut down your appetite considerably and make up for the lack of vegetables and fruits (fibers) usually lacking around holiday goodies.

• Keep drinking lots of water throughout the day. It will help eliminate and to avoid eating and drinking too much.

• Go easy on alcohol and never drink on an empty stomach. Choose wine or beer over hard liquors. Try to stay away from mixed drinks; they are often loaded of calories due to high sugars in the mixes used to make them. Drink a glass of water before you start drinking alcohol. Sip on one glass of wine for a long time, don’t just gobble up. Limit yourself to one or two drinks per event. Once you reach the limit, drink water or unsweetened sparkling water.

• Choose the healthiest possible types of food such as salads (with little dressing), grilled fish and white meat, steamed vegetables, fruits or vegetables with dip, whole wheat bread instead of crackers with a small amount of cheese or spreads, nuts (walnut, pistachio, and cashew), seafood (a couple of shrimp with cocktail sauce), and low sugar/fat style foods. If you must have that real rich creamy dish that you love so much, just take half of what you would normally do and add steamed vegetables and greens.

• Pleasure yourself by choosing something that you will really enjoy and that stimulate your taste buds while offering exquisite flavors. If you know it is not your best healthy choice, just take a smaller amount and savor every bite of it. If you can’t resist those delicious little cakes that are calling for you, have one but not three or four. Ok, I admit, this is where my weakness is. So I am going to give you my secret to overcome such problem. Generally, I limit myself to three or four things. Yes I know, I just told you not to do that, but you will understand soon how this can work. I take one or two small bit of each savoring slowly before swallowing in order to get the full flavor and texture. Very satisfying experience and not so calorific (equivalent to one dessert), but you must have a strong will to stay under control. If you know you can’t control yourself, then just choose your very favorite dessert or one you never tried to experience something new.

• Do not stand next to the buffet table; this is too much temptation. Try to make no more than two trips to the buffet, one for appetizer/entrée and one for dessert. Even better, avoid dessert once in awhile, particularly if you see nothing really tempting or go for a fruit.

• Use a smaller plate (if available) rather than a large plate. Do not pile the food on the plate. Take half the amount you thing you want. Be reasonable and think if you really need to eat what you are about to take. I cannot emphasize enough portion control!

Dear Diary,

I finally got up at 4pm today and made dinner. What I did was put a little oil in a pan, put in two medium sized pork chops, seasoned both sides with salt, put it on simmer and put the lid on it. I let each side simmer for about 20 minutes. Then I diced up a tomato and added the tomato for the last 10 minutes with the pork chops. This is so good because the pork chops come out so tender and juicy just like steak and the tomatoes were a nice touch too. I kind of played it by ear this time with the tomatoes. Try it sometime. The pork chops really do come out like steaks. I'm not kidding! My housekeeper said that's how she does her pork chops. Delish!!
I popped over to the MSN group and left Bonnie a message about the possibility of creating another account altogether. Maybe that would help. I don't know. I sure do miss her, though, and I hope she gets the problem fixed very soon. Hurry Bonnie! We miss you!
Yuku is such a lovely site. I really enjoy coming into the group because of it. There are so many advantages to it that MSN doesn't have. So far three of my other MSN groups are going to Yuku also and I'm so excited about that! Some of my MSN groups have gone to Multiply. Multiply is so stark and ugly. The homepage looks so generic and plain. It has no personality at all. I don't know what these people are thinking. Even though I also joined Multiply I don't think I'll make a habit of visiting those MSN groups that went with Multiply. There is no way you can link to Photobucket at all, at least that I can see. I feel so bad about that because there were a lot of great groups that I belonged to that now use Multiply. Then I got to thinking that there will be a lot of PSP groups that are in Yuku as well, so, all is not lost.
 

Purrs,

Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

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Hi,

Don't forget to turn the clocks back an hour, as daylight savings time ends. This is a part of the year that I don't look forward to and I sure wish we could stay on it for the entire year.

Our cats DO however, stay on daylight savings time, no idea why, but they still want to be fed at the time they're used to, which is 5am daylight savings time, so I ought to be woken up at 4am this morning by one or another of them, wanting to know where their food is! Ack.

I wish the time would stay the the hour ahead as it's already getting dark in the early evening and this makes it that much earlier. Days are shorter, nights are longer, seems like we ought to enjoy the daylight as late as we can, doesn't it?

Maybe there's a reason for turning the clocks back, (or turning them ahead in the first place), but I don't know what it is. If anyone does, please tell me.

Marilyn - sad to see daylight savings time go...