The 10 Health Lessons of 2009

Lessons We Learned About Health in 2009

By Holly Lebowitz Rossi and Valerie Reiss

Among the many ways to measure a year is through the lens of health. Not only how healthy we kept ourselves, or how we coped with the health challenges that cropped up in our own lives, but how we processed and learned from the health news, trends, scares, triumphs, and insights that we encountered over the past 365 days.

What did you learn in 2009? Click to see the first of our 10 picks for the top health lessons of the year.

Holly Lebowitz Rossi and Valerie Reiss, Beliefnet's Health and Holistic Living editors, respectively, co-author the natural health blog Fresh Living.