Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. That doesn't have to be the case.
Preventive Medicine: What one thing makes a diet 'good'?
A dietary pattern is good if it represents the balanced array of nutrients from an...
Using food as preventive medicine
A plant-based diet can help tackle chronic diseases.
Preventive Medicine Battles Rising Obesity Rates
Around the globe, obesity and its contributing factors toward disease are becoming more prevalent in industrialized nations. The need for preventive healthcare is becoming more necessary than ever before due to the rising rates of obesity, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. However, a focus on wellness and preventive medicine could go a long way toward …
Preventive medicine expert advocates a plant-based diet
In a letter to JAMA, the preventive-medicine expert addresses the failure of the newest USDA Dietary Guidelines to articulate the health and climate benefits of a low-meat diet.
Preventive Medicine: Protein: Everything you think you know is wrong
Sequential, societal trends in which first dietary fat and then dietary carbohydrate were vilified during recent decades have left dietary protein under an implied halo. The resulting infatuation is naïve, over-simplified, misguided, and misleading. Other than that - it's perfect<br>Everything you think you know about protein, in other words, if you think of it as most people do, is wrong<br>Colleagues and I just published…
What is Preventive Medicine and Wellness?
Healthcare is an ever changing system, the days of seeing a physician only when you are feeling under the weather are over. Preventive medicine and wellness have taken the forefront within the healthcare system. So, what is preventive health and wellness? Preventive medicine is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as, “a branch of medical science …
20 Health Mistakes to Stop Making Before You Turn 40
18 Signs Your Elderly Parent Needs Help
Whether mail is stacking up, food is spoiled or something just seems off, it's important know the signs that your aging parents need help.
The 7 Worst Foods for Your Skin
Athletes face challenges every day, but the one thing they shouldn’t have to worry about is their skin. Avoid these foods, so you can put your game face on.
13 Healthy High-Fat Foods You Should Eat More
Low fat is officially over! Here are more than a dozen high-fat superstars you can and should enjoy as part of your healthy diet.
Why are there still so many hungry people in the world?
The world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people. Poverty and hunger prevail because of economics, not scarcity
What happens when a family runs out of food stamps
Donating food to the hungry should be easy — why isn’t it?
Food service firms thwarted in donating excess food to the hungry by lack of nationwide standards. Varying state to state regulations frustrate donors.
9 Diet Tips to Help You Fight Inflammation
You Must Remove These Foods To Fight Inflammation!
There are so many foods out there linked to inflammation. Remove these ones from your diet to fight this chronic illness.
The Truth About Coconut Oil: 10 Facts You Should Know
There are so many food claims out there and it's difficult to determine what's healthy and what's not anymore. The mega-food companies jumping on the healthy bandwagon and making it even more confusing.
One-Third of Food Is Lost or Wasted: What Can Be Done
From our farms to grocery stores to dinner tables, one-third of the food we grow is lost or wasted. We can do better.
Food as Medicine: Why Doctors Are Choosing Local, Sustainable Food
While food directly impacts health, the US healthcare system fails to address the importance of food as a preventative tool in personal and public health. Dr. Robert Graham spoke with us about his work to bring a more sustainable approach to medicine, and explained why sustainable food can play a big role in keeping people healthy.
Food as Medicine: How to Practice Intuitive Eating
Bastyr University adheres to a whole-food philosophy that guides all of its nutrition programs, emphasizing the consumption of a variety of foods in their least-processed forms. When assessing health and wellness, the university integrates mind, body, and spirit by drawing connections between whole food, exercise science and health psychology.
