The 'rabbit effect', how to live longer and healthier | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it

Amid the clanging political noise about health insurance and thieving pharmaceutical companies, Kelli Harding stands apart from the horde calling for quick fixes, the simpler the better. She has walked too many miles in the halls of hospitals visiting too many far-gone patients and seeing too many medical mistakes to go along with conventional thinking.

"The rabbit effect," she explains, means that "when it comes to our health, we've been missing some crucial pieces: hidden factors behind what really makes us healthy. Factors like love, friendship, and dignity. The designs of our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.


It wasn't diet or genetics that made a difference in which rabbits got sick and which stayed healthy. It was kindness.