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SeekWellness Wins Best Of Web Award
Diet Channel's review of our website:
Seek Wellness focuses on a person's overall health and wellness by providing information about mental health and physical diseases, such as arthritis and eating disorders, as well as fitness, nutrition, and weight control. Even sexual happiness and well-being is addressed for both men and women. The articles Seek Wellness provides are written by Diane Newman, RNC, MSN, CRNP, FAAN and Dr. Chris Steidle, MD, along with a column updated daily by Don Ardell, PhD. These highly qualified contributors, along with featured books, a wellness store, and a scrolling news bar all coalesce to create an extremely informative and useful site for anyone interested in their own wellness.

Don Ardell has just won our first official award! On Speakwell.com, owner Martin Collis has completed a review of Health and Wellness Webzines, Magazines and Newsletters. From the field of ten such publications, Martin chose Don's newsletter as the one he finds most informative, useful and stimulating. In his words:

1. Ardell Wellness Report
Not for everybody, and not always for me. Don Ardell is a prolific, relentless promoter of high level wellness. He is opinionated, provocative, and his rants make him the Dennis Miller of wellness. Don practices what he preaches (or maybe preaches what he practices, it doesn't matter) and is a world champion in the over 60 (Methuselah) age group of triathlons.
What I like about Don's writing is that he doesn't play favorites and, when appropriate will be critical of big business, the Surgeon General, vitamins, politics, religion, and even wellness conferences. The latter two get the full Ardell treatment in issue 113 of his on-line Wellness Report.
Don is a disciple of Halbert Dunn who first gave us the term 'high level wellness' in the 1950's. He has an extensive web site which actually does carry ads. But his weekly electronic Ardell Wellness Report is ad-free, thought provoking and often fun. He actually writes a daily wellness focused essay which can be accessed on the web at: www.seekwellness.com/wellness/. When you write an essay a day, they can't all be great, but even Shakespeare and Bob Dylan have come up with a few clunkers. Don makes us think, he makes us laugh, he's not afraid to offend, he does not have a 'political correctness' checker built into his computer or his brain. In a 'play it safe', economically driven world we need Don's irreverence, his sense of fun and his healthy skepticism of gurus who drive Cadillacs (or even ride bicycles). I think what sets the EAWR apart from other wellness journals and webzines is that Don has mastered the informality and immediacy of electronic communication. It's not just another journal that's reproduced online.
There's an old saying, 'Better write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self.' Don writes for himself but manages to keep a strong public following. The Speakwell Oscar goes to the Electronic Ardell Wellness Report.
Here's the list of other contenders:
2. Nutrition Action
3. Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter
4. Berkeley Wellness Letter
5. Consumer Reports on Health
Honorable Mentions: American Fitness Magazine, Employee Health and Productivity, Wellness Options, Canadian Health Care Manager, Johns Hopkins Health After 50

Our hats are off to our colleague, Don Ardell!