The chatter surrounding Google’s fab tribute to the 30th anniversary of a great game, Pac-Man, is so odd at times. CNN reports that over $120 million had been wasted as visitors to Google’s site played the game.

Really?

This article misses the point of this historic game. The amount of discovery joy engendered by playing the game is beyond calculation. Creativity often comes from this type of play as mental exercise. In a word, Americans need to play a helluva lot more than we are playing now. Play of all kinds: games and social games. Do it for your health, your sanity, taking back your personal power from where-ever-the-hell-you-gave-it-this-week, for generativity. Go play some Pac-Man of whatever variety or persuasion and then share your experience. Is that not part of the fun of social media?

Celebrate the joy of play for daily wellness: do it and share it. @DoctorJames

Vitamin D is required by the human body for proper functioning of numerous systems, to maintain health of both mind and body. After several decades of drumming the message to avoid overexposure to the sun because of the damage ultraviolet rays can do to the skin, including melanomas, clinicians are beginning to offer more balanced advice for sun exposure. Dr. Michael Holick, author of “The UV Advantage“, advocates daily sunlight exposure to avoid numerous diseases caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin” that is actually a hormone. Holick recommends daily sunshine and advocates wider use of proper exposure to the sun, in an effort to counter a pandemic of vitamin D deficiency-linked disorders and diseases that is now prevalent among North Americans. Here is a brief interview and his recommendations.

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