Category Archives:Lifestyle

Mediterranean Diet wins again!

Mediterranean Diet wins again!

Diabetes Care. 2014 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print] The Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Need for Diabetes Drugs and Remission of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial – Esposito K1, Maiorino MI, Petrizzo M, Bellastella G, Giugliano D. There can now be little doubt that we all need to […]

Lifestyle changes for Diabetes Prevention – Long term results

Retin-A online Online Xenical buy 10-year follow-up of diabetes incidence and weight loss in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study : The Lancet: Lifestyle interventions for diabetes prevention continue to have benefits for patients 10 years down the track, according to recently published data from the Diabetes Prevention Program.

Lifestyle – Show and Tell

We do the real work in chronic disease management when we assist our patients to make lasting changes to their lifestyle. We can benefit from better tools and teams to support us in this task. buy Indocin What tools have you found useful? In the interests of ‘Sharing Generously and Stealing Shamelessly’, here is a […]

Walking the Great Wall

Order Disulfiram online buy Levitra Xenical 120 mg How would you like to walk the full 3200km of the Great Wall of China? That’s a mere 4 million steps. Our clinic began our virtual journey last Friday. We are well on our way to the first checkpoint, Zhangye. There has been little thanks for my […]

Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet

NEJM — Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet:
Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) Group, N Engl J Med 2008 359: 229-241
Norman Swan on Radio National’s Health Report this week reports on the above fascinating study, comparing three commonly recommended diets
Low-Fat Diet
The low-fat, restricted-calorie diet was based on American Heart Association20 guidelines. […]

Eat Your Breakfast – It’s official

The results of Project EAT (Eating among Teens) has been published in the journral ‘Pediatrics’. It confirms what our grandmothers told us – breakfast is the most important meal of the day.The conclusions – there is an inverse relationship between frequency of breakfast and BMI. The more often you have breakfast, the lower your BMI is […]

Rethinking Thin and Mindless Eating

Reason magazine online has a review of two new books on weight loss that are relevant to our stepUp program.
In Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata, a veteran New York Times science reporter uses case studies to illustrate her general point that “very few people lose substantial amounts of weight and keep it off” because genetic factors […]

stepUp – the GP Collaborative Guide to Health

The year before last, my patient Kevin had a heart attack. Last year, he lost 18kg using the products of ‘A Big Weight Loss Franchise®.’ But last week, he was 5kg heavier than when he started!
I seem to be having a lot of conversations with patients about weight loss. We really want them to think […]

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FancyName® – The GP Collaborative Guide to Health

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