Insights

<p>Here's the final batch of my favorite health stories from 2011. Happy New Year!</p>

<p>The December issue of Wired Mag&shy;azine pro&shy;files David Kirchhoff, CEO of Weight Watchers, in a story on new ways to measure calories and food. It’s an inter&shy;esting piece, with several points worth con&shy;tem&shy;plating at the start of the year.</p>

<p>Only 31 percent of public school students in California who took the 2011 statewide Physical Fitness Test received healthy scores on all six different measurements of fitness the test scores. Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it?&nbsp;</p>

<p>It’s important for journalists and consumers to understand that not all claims they hear about supposed benefits of medical interventions have been proven to impact things that really matter in peoples’ lives.</p>

<p>Here's the second batch of my favorite health stories of 2011. In all, it’s been another tremendous year for health journalism.</p>

<p>Goldberg shares the lessons and joys of blogging at CommonHealth.</p>

<p>As 2012 approaches, here is some of my favorite health journalism of the past year, with hopes that it will inform and inspire.</p>

<p>What is health? How does it impact my neighborhood? What can we do about it? What is a healthy community?</p>

<p>It was difficult to narrow <em>Antidote’s</em> list of favorite health stories from 2011 down to just 10. Here is the first batch.</p>