Sharing health information with friends and family

Sometimes I have to bite my tongue.

Recently a friend of mine told me he’d begun taking a multi-vitamin. When he told me the brand name, I knew two things: 1) His new multi was a hard tablet, as opposed to a capsule or gelcap, so he probably wasn’t absorbing very many additional vitamins or minerals at all, and, 2) his multi didn’t contain sufficient amounts of several essential vitamins.

This came up during a casual conversation at a party, so I didn’t want to put on my HSI Director hat (well, tiara, actually) and tell him why he would be better off choosing another more reliable multi-vitamin brand. And this sort of thing happens a lot.

While it’s easy for me to share important health information with over 250,000 of you every day through this e-Alert, it can be hard to talk about some of these issues with my friends and family (especially controversial ones like mammography).

Sometimes they just don’t want to hear it and look at me like I’m a relentless “health nut.” Other times, I may not even know what health problems they’re facing. So while I could send information that would absolutely help them, I wouldn’t necessarily know what to send.

So I take the easy way out. I usually end up signing everyone I know up for the e-Alert and just ask them to read it for a few weeks.

Now our manager of e-Alert services has figured out a way that you can do the same thing for your family and friends. Simply use the link below and you’ll be able to send a short note to anyone you think would benefit from getting the e-Alerts. (And don’t worry, if they don’t sign up, they’ll never hear from us. In fact, using this new method, we won’t even know their e-mail address.)

So if you know someone you think should be getting the e-Alert, this is an easy way to send it without having to forward it every day – or risk becoming as relentless as I am.

Share this HSI e-Alert with a friend.

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute