My name is Kathy Summers and I write about health topics for all kinds of markets — mostly magazines, but also books, blogs, web sites, corporations, and associations. My credits include Natural Health, Health, Prevention, Reader’s Digest, Shape, Fit Pregnancy, Pilates Style, Oxygen, American Profile, HarperCollins, and Rodale Books.

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Getting Healthy Together
Natural Health (cover story)
We’re connected to our families by more than just our genes. We breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat the same meals. All that sharing means we have enormous influence, for better or for worse, on each others health.

The Green Pregnancy: 5 Steps to Going Green
Fit Pregnancy (cover story)
When you’re pregnant, living a green lifestyle takes on a new importance. It’s not about following trends to ease eco-guilt. It’s about creating a world your baby can grow and thrive in. Your body is your child’s first environment. Here’s how to make it safe …

Tired? Try Some Sushi
Health
A common thyroid gland disorder can pile on pounds, sap your energy, and leave you achy, bloated, and moody. the problem: hypothyroidism, or when you’re low on thyroid hormones. Experts now think lifestyle changes–even a little sushi …

The Path to Endurance
Experience Life (cover story)
Jim Vranas isn’t the kind of guy who just sits around. The 82-year-old World War II veteran and scientific glassblower (he made the first glass model of the DNA molecule) has always been on the go. That is, until about a month after …

Lost in Translation
Alternative Medicine (cover story)
In Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric,” and he was right about one thing: The body’s electrical messages to the brain-not the brain itself-color our world. But what if your body’s messages misfire …