David S. Murphy, ND, CWC

Wellness coaching to help you reach your full potential

What is Wellness?

Wellness results from the establishment and maintenance of optimum health and balance or homeostasis. Wellness is a state of being healthy, characterized by positive emotion, thought and action. Wellness is inherent in everyone, no matter what dis-ease(s) an individual might experience. If wellness is truly recognized and nurtured within that individual, he/she will more quickly heal, as compared to their healing with direct treatment of the dis-ease alone.

Why Wellness Coaching?


66% of Americans are overweight. (CDC, 2009)

28% of American men 34% of American women were classified as obese in 2002, up from 11% and 16% in 1962  (American Heart Association, 2005) and the annual medical costs for an obese person are about 37.7 percent more than the costs for a person of normal weight.   (Mercola, 2003)

The total prevalence of diabetes increased 13.5% from 2005 to 2007.  (American Diabetes Association, 2009).

The health care industry lavished $237 million lobbying congress in 2000; more than any other industry.  The pharmaceutical companies were the biggest spenders in the group, lobbying Congress to the tune of $96 million.  (Mercola, 2004).  According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, the health sector reported spending $127 million in lobbying during the first three months of 2009, more than any other area.  (INDYSTAR.com, 2009)

 Over 250,000 Americans are killed each year by physician induced causes including:

·   106,000 die from the adverse effects of medication,

· 80,000 die from infections they got while in hospital,

· 20,000 die from other hospital errors,

· 12,000 die from unnecessary surgeries, and

· 7,000 die from medication errors in hospital. (JAMA, 7/00)

 Americans use twice as many drugs as do Canadians and Europeans. (CBS News 6/21/00)

 Health care (really disease care) has been described as the most successful failing business in America.  (Holford, 1999)

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