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An Educational Remedy for Healthcare The best medicine for the ailing U.S. healthcare system is consumer education. That’s the message promoted by Dr. David W. Jensen, president and founder of Whole Hearted Health, and professor at Lone Star College – Tomball. Jensen has developed a new educational package to provide urgently needed help for healthcare consumers. It will be presented at the inaugural meeting of the International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society, to be held at the University of California at Berkeley, January 20 – 22, 2011. The title of his talk is “Proactive and Protective Personal Healthcare Systems”. Jensen’s resource package is a remedy for two broken parts of healthcare. One is showing consumers how to interact proactively with their physicians. Using a Lifestyle Toxicity Test, consumers learn how to measure how much their lifestyle habits contribute to their medical complaints. Other helpful aids in the package are: medical-legal documents and forms needed to act as a patient advocate; crucial questions to ask your doctor; how to get prepared for doctors visits; how to construct a medical information network; how to construct a low-tech personal insurance and medical information filing system; and how to check the accuracy of hospital bills for errors. In addition, the resource pack shows consumers how to adjust critical lifestyle practices to enhance wellness and performance. Guidelines show how to adjust key lifestyle areas that regulate genes that make powerful enhancements of health. Included is a unique motivational questionnaire to help folks overcome addictive lifestyle habits that keep folks overweight, unfit, and unhealthy. The International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society is a new organization created to provide an interdisciplinary forum for experts to discuss issues at the intersection of personal physiology and social living. Pivotal ideas and social challenges in health and wellness will be the focus