The Ideal Plant-Based Plate — Charmin Ascherbrener, Register Dietitian & Pivio Coaching Operations Manager shares recommendations for building the ideal plant-based plate.
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Sam Smith shares her personal story of how a whole food plant based diet drastically improved her quality of life
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Lifestyle Medicine Institute to Launch Turnkey Solution for Organizations to Reduce Healthcare Costs
LOMA LINDA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Lifestyle Medicine Institute (LMI) is launching an innovative health and wellbeing program aimed to help communities, organizations, and their employees transform their health and decrease risk of chronic disease. Launching in Spring 2022, Pivio – the Complete Health Improvement Program is an enhanced solution that represents a new eraContinue reading “Lifestyle Medicine Institute to Launch Turnkey Solution for Organizations to Reduce Healthcare Costs”
Kids at risk, growing healthy kids
The news is not good. “Heart disease begins in childhood,” reports the National Institutes of Health. A recent examination of 360 randomly selected youngsters, ages 7 to 12, revealed that 98 percent of the children already had two or more risk factors for heart disease. But we keep hearing that people are getting healthier! It’sContinue reading “Kids at risk, growing healthy kids”
Aging, older can be better
Everyone hates getting old. People want to stay young, or at least middle-aged. But time keeps marching. With the 65-and-older segment getting larger in North America what are the prospects for the golden-agers in today’s world? An increasing trend is to date people by their intellectual and social capabilities rather than by chronological age. Health,Continue reading “Aging, older can be better”
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOOD (with guest, Dr. David Katz)
David Katz, MD, one of the world’s leading authorities on lifestyle medicine, health promotion, and the prevention of chronic disease lays out what’s fundamentally and reliably true — while setting us all free from fads, false claims, and distractions by showing how to differentiate truth from the exploitative “lies” that abound.
Chronic inflammation
Chronic inflammation has real detrimental effects on our health, linked to the development of heart disease, diabetes, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and even cancer. So, what can be done about it? Inflammation is one of the body’s natural defense mechanisms. When your body gets attacked by a virus your immune system jumps in to save youContinue reading “Chronic inflammation”
EAT MORE, WEIGH LESS (with guest, Dr. Hans Diehl)
Restrictive eating plans for weight management can set you up for failure. These semi-starvation plans are difficult to follow and often leave you feeling hungry and unsatisfied. They are not a formula for long-term success. Find out the fail-safe formula for successful weight loss. As the founder of the CHIP program with close to 100,000Continue reading “EAT MORE, WEIGH LESS (with guest, Dr. Hans Diehl)”
PLANT-BASED TELEHEALTH (with guest, Laurie Marbas, MD)
Telemedicine became a necessity soon after the pandemic hit last year as patients and doctors needed to meet yet unable to visit face-to-face. How has this worked out? And what can a patient or physician expect out of such online encounters? Laurie Marbas, MD along with Michael Klaper, MD, and other physicians are taking theContinue reading “PLANT-BASED TELEHEALTH (with guest, Laurie Marbas, MD)”