Big Food Is Going Vegan You know consumer health is making progress when Big Food is going vegan. Health Warrior is a seven-year-old, high-growth and plant-based superfood company based in the Bay Area that might be best known for popularizing chia seeds in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space. Cofounded by college roommates Shane Emmett […]
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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Green Tea Extract Appetite Control As the obesity epidemic continues in the US and other nations, there is continued focus on how to lose weight. While there is no magic pill or secret exercise there is some additional benefit from green tea extract for appetite control. Sometimes all we need is just a gently nudge
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Health Care Marketing Tips Among the anti-septic smell and scrub uniforms, we sometimes forget that 80% or more of our health is determined outside clinical practice. For those physicians, nurses, dentists, optometrists, home health agencies, physical therapists, nutritionists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, yoga studios and hundreds more who want to be more involved in patient /
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Rural Obesity The fat hillbilly sitting on the front porch with a shotgun across his lap is becoming less funny as rural obesity continues to climb. With rural obesity comes the growing costs of chronic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes as well as the effects of comorbidities. As the US sick care system grows
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Social Determinants of Health Data As healthcare organization increase focus on social determinants of health like housing, education, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. there is growing need for social determinants of health data. While interoperability among Electronic Healthcare Record systems (EHRs) remains largely a mess, now is the time to reimagine Health Information Management. Rather than working
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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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Lymphatic System Outside of a biology or anatomy class, we really don’t get much exposure to the lymphatic system. It is obviously critical for a healthy body but so often overlooked. This article from mindbodygreen.com gives a nice overview of the lymphatic system and a range of ways to help keep it healthy, from proper nutrition to
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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
How Can I Help? NBC’s newest medical drama, New Amsterdam, will debut tonight (Sept 25, 2018) at 10:00 PM (9:00 Central). It is about a doctor who is forcing a hospital to treat people instead of treating health insurance companies or playing to the media. This supposedly radical change in healthcare is saddening and frustrating. For
