--- title: Welcome to the Wellness Blog description: Staying on top of medical studies, mental and physical fitness tips, and breaking health news can be time consuming, and often confusing. On TIME.com's Wellness... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2009-07-31T08:59:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-16T11:53:52.120Z article:section: Health og:title: Welcome to the Wellness Blog og:description: Staying on top of medical studies, mental and physical fitness tips, and breaking health news can be time consuming, and often confusing. On TIME.com's Wellness... og:url: https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Welcome to the Wellness Blog twitter:description: Staying on top of medical studies, mental and physical fitness tips, and breaking health news can be time consuming, and often confusing. On TIME.com's Wellness... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) # Welcome to the Wellness Blog by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Jul 31, 2009 8:59 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Jul 31, 2009 8:59 AM UTC Staying on top of medical studies, mental and physical fitness tips, and breaking health news can be time consuming, and often confusing. On TIME.com’s Wellness Blog, health reporters Laura Blue and Tiffany Sharples do that for you — and then some. They make sense of new trends in fitness and diet, keep you up to speed on the medical and health-care innovations relevant to your life, and turn to the experts to answer your questions. Feel free to “Submit a comment” above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/"},"headline":"Welcome to the Wellness Blog","datePublished":"2009-07-31T08:59:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-16T11:53:52.120Z","description":"Staying on top of medical studies, mental and physical fitness tips, and breaking health news can be time consuming, and often confusing. On TIME.com's Wellness...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/","keywords":["flu"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7145231/welcome-to-the-wellness-blog/","name":"Welcome to the Wellness Blog"}}]}] ```