Chronic Diseases
Change Your Thinking—Improve your Health!
The more your focus on the positive things in your life, the more you can boost your immunity, diminish stress, and feel a sense of happiness. Through positive thinking and commitment, you can move from one health accomplishment to another. Passion, excitement and confidence are important medicines that you need every day. And they can…
Read MoreHealtheGoals a Recipe for Your Heart
HealtheGoals is an Evidence-Based Patient Solution Designed to deliver personalized tools, guidance and information that patients can use to play a greater role in the management of their high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart failure. Simply prescribing medications and lifestyle changes and expecting a patient to comply with these instructions may not be enough. …
Read MoreLetting Go of What Was Once Wonderful
What are some of the things you did in your past that you loved to do that you are no longer able to do? When it became apparent I could no longer go surfing, I accepted it, filling in the time gardening and hiking. During your life, we are the ones who fill our cup…
Read MoreLive Your Best Life
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Read MoreLife is a Succession of Lessons which Must be Lived to be Understood
The words above were written by Helen Keller. Life has often been compared to a game. Unfortunately, we are not given the rules, nor instructions about how to play. We simply begin at “Go” and make our way around the board hoping we play it right. For each of us, our health will play an…
Read MorePhysical Activity Plays a Crucial Role in Chronic Disease Prevention
Almost instantly after your finish your exercise “sweat” session, your blood pressure drops and feelings of anxiety die down. Don’t be surprised if your find your sleep improves too! In addition to stronger bones and muscles, some of the long-term effects of consistent exercise include a lower risk for: Type 2 diabetes Heart disease Stroke…
Read MoreThink Health For a Change—Rethinking your health
This book is the result of many years of counseling patients and friends about their health. The right words at the right time have the power to help improve a person’s health and consequently their life. When the right words come along, they will speak directly to you… they build you up, guide your thinking,…
Read MoreHealtheGoals—Rethinking Your Health
Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a person to comply with these instructions does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders to take a pill, get moving or stop smoking. To address these challenges, our Technology Provider Network created HealtheGoals an evidence-based, technology-enabled Adherence program that…
Read MoreScience Says: MOVE MORE
According to a recent study, short spurts of physical activity can make a big difference. Researchers estimated that more than 110,000 deaths could be prevented each year if US adults ages 40-85 added 10 minutes of exercise to their daily routines. That’s something worth getting off the couch for!
Read MoreAn Energetic Walk is No Silly Workout
Intensifying your fitness routine could come from the simplest change possible: how you put one foot in front of the other. Walking with more “push” can burn as many calories as higher-impact activities such as running or even aerobics classes, experts say. That could mean incorporating weights, hills or a faster pace. You don’t’ have…
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