Lifestyle Is Medicine It sounds simple but lifestyle is medicine. Unfortunately, much of our daily lifestyle decisions have been removed from 10-15 minute window we have with a physician in the US “sick care” or “disease management” model. While an epidemic of chronic illnesses continues to inflict harm and drain financial resources, there has been little […]
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Ohio University’s Heritage College Supports Lifestyle Medicine It is wonderful to know that OU Heritage College supports lifestyle medicine through continued evidence-based research. So much has come out about the impact of lifestyle on our health, leading to many preventable chronic illnesses and deaths. Researchers at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine are
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European Health European health and wellbeing have seen improvements in a number of areas such as increased life expectancy and lower maternal mortality. However, they struggle overall with some lifestyle choices like tobacco and alcohol. During a trip to Iceland and Germany in June we noticed that while supermarkets carried only a fraction of a
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Integrating Health Coaches Lifestyle is widely recognized as the most critical factor in many chronic illnesses like hypertension or diabetes. In the current clinic-centric model for sick care, it is unfair to ask clinicians to treat conditions with pharmaceuticals or procedures alone. Today’s clinicians and their patients need additional help which can come from integrating
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Dietary Lifestyle In some ways we think the announcement about dietary lifestyle from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine is visionary, promoting whole foods not only to treat but even reverse many of the chronic illnesses that reduce the quality of life for many Americans and raid personal savings as well as US Gross Domestic
Social Determinants Impede Care Social determinants in healthcare are those things like employment, education, housing, nutrition, etc. that impact health. We have known for years that social determinants impede care. Unfortunately, to paraphrase author Charles Dudley Warner, everybody knows that social determinants impact health, but nobody does anything about it. However, that may be changing. Nearly 90% of
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Element3 Health We hope more companies unveil products and services like Element3 Health! Healthcare systems around the world need to help break down the silos. Health is not just physical. There are many determinants for health. Some, like genetics, are less controllable. Some, like loneliness and nutrition, are much more controllable. People will benefit more
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True Happiness At HealthCare Too we have always considered financial health as part of the holistic approach to health. After all, finances are a leading cause of stress among all generations. We thought we may well be the only ones who thought this way… until a Transamerica commercial about True Happiness caught our eyes. https://youtu.be/JcOmOSuGZOA
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Timing may not be everything but a recent small study shows that timing when you eat may have an impact. While no one at HealthCare Too is a devotee of fasting, we do appreciate that eating just before bedtime is a bad idea. Putting dinner well before bedtime and delaying breakfast (not skipping) really don’t
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Bellevue Hospital’s Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program Bite by bite we are integrating a more holistic lifestyle medicine into our conventional sick care system. As more people realize the benefits of a plant-based diet in their health, like Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, there will be more opportunity to integrate lifestyle medicine approaches. The $400,000 investment
