Press Release - "Health and Happiness: YOUR owner's manual for the mind and body"

Hot off the press – the revised, personalized edition of Sean Donovan’s book “Health and Happiness: YOUR owner’s manual for the mind and body” is now available for your life-enhancing, reading pleasure. This newly revised edition combines Sean’s “words of wisdom” with an exciting new personalized printing technology from Daytona Beach based publisher DME.

Written for people who don’t normally read books, this book uses interesting analogies and common sense (yet often forgotten) advice along with a personalized touch to create maximum health and happiness in your life. The unique printing process uses information given during the ordering process to merge your name throughout the text and produce a book unique only to you. The personalized technology even incorporates your name into the book’s title on the cover! Sean and DME create a unique reader experience that even well-read literary enthusiasts have yet to experience.

Regardless of your age, race, religion, sex, political affiliation or national origin - we should all have one common denominator – our health. We only get one shot at life and when our health is gone, nothing else matters. The human mind and body comprise the most sophisticated 'machine' on earth. Our bodies are far more sensitive and complex than any automobile, DVD player or other man-made item; but unlike those products, we don't come with an instruction manual at birth. This Health and Happiness guide offers great technologies to help the average person make better decisions regarding their mind and body.

Health reform in the USA starts with “US” - and the daily choices we make - choosing to read this book is the first step in the right direction. Visit http://www.grassrootsreform.net/ to get your copy today.

Healthy Bytes - Pumping Gas

When pumping gas, stand upwind from not only your gas pump, but all of them - so you don’t breathe harmful vapors. To determine wind direction - look at the flags, trees or use the good 'ol lick the finger and hold it up to the wind trick to determine wind direction. Important note: remain in sight of the pump to prevent spills and overflow. In addition, try to fill up your car at night or when it's cool outside - this minimizes vapors as well as making gas more dense (so you get slightly more for your money)!

Breathing gas vapors has been linked to cancer in laboratory rats (who are accustomed to breathing sewer gas and other nastiness) - so imagine what those vapors can do to a much more sophisticated human body.

Our lungs are a direct pathway into our blood and every cell in our bodies. What we breathe absolutely affects our health!

Healthy Bytes - Driving

When driving in traffic, stay several car lengths behind the car in front of you and stop at least 2 car lengths behind to avoid sucking up exhaust fumes into the cabin of your car. Also roll up the windows and put the heat or a/c on recirculate (I usually advocate fresh air and driving with the window cracked, but recirculated air is better than polluted exhaust air). Clean, oxygen-rich air is critical for good health. Do everything in your power to breathe the best air possible and eliminate as many toxins as you can. Your lungs are a direct pathway into the blood and ultimately every cell in your body.

I hope this "Healthy Byte" will bring you health and happiness. For more healthy lifestyle tips check out Sean Donovan's Life Coaching, Words of Wisdom "WOW" Series, or "Health and Happiness: an owner's manual for the mind and body".

Pursue Happiness

The Constitution only guarantees us the pursuit of happiness - my book guides you down the path.

Read "Health and Happiness: an owner's manual for the mind and body". Available in e-book, hardback and paperback.

Know your Doctor

Too often I hear people express a lack of trust and confidence in their doctors. When I question them about their contempt, I realize the root of the problem. Most people don’t truly know their doctor – and on the flip side, their doctor doesn’t really know them either. A recent study was published on MSN.com which found that the average doctor gives each patient 19 seconds of his undivided attention during an office visit – 19 seconds? – that’s barely enough time to tell someone your name and address!

Think about it – we shop all over town for the best deal on a car or a pair of shoes and most of us will interview multiple professionals and check all credentials and references when it comes to hiring child care or a contractor, but we often settle for a doctor simply because he/she is in the ‘approved network’ of our insurance company. Many people I talk to can’t tell me a thing about their doctor other than their name and the location of their office. I challenge you to interview your doctor as if your life depends on it (because it may). Know where they went to school, when they graduated, how many credit hours of nutritional training they had, do they have any allegiance or affiliation with any pharmaceutical companies, what are their areas of expertise, what are their weaknesses – and most importantly, are they healthy? Would you want an overweight, unhealthy doctor who smokes giving you health advice?

I think a GREAT doctor and a routine yearly physical are essential in maintaining good health, so do everything in your power to make this happen. Make money the last concern when choosing a doctor. A great doctor is worth paying for – after all, how much is your life worth? If your insurance provider won’t cover the doctor of your choosing, choose another insurance carrier. When everyone wakes up and takes charge of their health and demands more from their doctor and insurance provider, then and only then will true health reform start to take place in this country.

Accept a prescription as a last means of treatment, not as a knee-jerk reaction that most doctors default to. Unless your doctor can logically explain the source of your problem and prescribe a treatment that will get to the source rather than cover up the symptoms and create new side effects, then don’t settle for drugs. Let’s face it – we don’t get migraines due to a lack of aspirin in the brain and our acid reflux and digestive problems are not due to a lack of antacid in the stomach. Don’t settle for just one person’s opinion – do your own research, consult specialists, think logically and explore every solution possible.

We only get one life to live and one body to live it in – make the most of it every day and take care of yourself as if you are the most precious thing in the world.

http://www.seandon.com/ for health advice, coaching and speaking.