Health Web Notes is a casual research resource for anyone interested in health and wellness from a traditional or alternative approach. We hope this site will help you make informed choices when it comes to using supplements, changing your diet for health and working to increase your general well being.
This site looks at health and wellness from multiple perspectives, embodied in the related but distinct terms of “health” and “wellness” themselves.
People define Health in many different ways, but at the core is represents the absence of infirmity and disease. Modern medicine concentrates on curing and preventing illness. Many medical innovations have moved from the professional sphere to everyday use. Examples include vitamins and mineral supplements. The scientific approach
to health emphasizes consistent, reliable results that can be proven in an objective setting.
The definition of health continues to change and expand as we learn more about the human body. Wellness is a common word for this expanded vision.
Wellness represents positive health, beyond just maintaining the body’s vital functions, free from pain. Wellness includes fitness, energy, mental health and spiritual satisfaction. A high degree of wellness protects people from disease. Alternative medicine practitioners often speak of wellness as a balanced lifestyle that meets physical, intellectual and spiritual needs.
People promote wellness with both traditional and alternative therapies. These include herbal supplements and non-Western treatments such as acupuncture. Beyond basic health wellness is a personal, subjective matter, so the broad effectiveness of a method is less important than whether it does no harm and the person using it feels some benefit.