Insights from the Editor
Navigating the Road to Wellness
Living a healthful lifestyle can certainly be a challenge. It requires an ongoing effort, not to mention an ability to resist the temptations we face at every turn to eat too much and move too little. It also requires information. Yet it seems the more information and advice we get about staying healthy - and there's now more than ever - the harder it is to know what to believe and to do.
That's where this blog comes in. Relying on my 20 years of experience as a health journalist and my academic training in public health, I'll sort through the information for you, directing you to trustworthy sources - Web sites, books, articles, and research studies - that I think you'll find useful and interesting. I'll also try to provide some perspective on health issues in the news and on the minds of consumers.
I don't want this to be a one-way street, however. I invite you to let me know about resources that you've found helpful and to share your reactions to what you read here. It's my hope that by taking this journey together, we'll all be able to navigate with greater ease the twists, turns, and forks in the road to wellness.
About the Author
Robert J. Davis, PhD is President and Editor-in-Chief of Everwell.
An award-winning health journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, PBS, WebMD and in The Wall Street Journal, he is the author of The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype About Your Health. He also teaches at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Davis holds a PhD in health policy from Brandeis University, where he was a Pew Fellow, a master’s degree in public health from Emory, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
