Tag Archives:Lifestyle

Lifestyle changes for Diabetes Prevention – Long term results

October 29, 2009

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.

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Lifestyle – Show and Tell

September 1, 2008

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.
What tools have you found useful?
In the interests of ‘Sharing Generously and Stealing Shamelessly’, here is a preliminary list of some [...]

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Walking the Great Wall

August 12, 2008
Walking the Great Wall

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 contribution of 16,900 steps (Rebecca our exercise physiologist has 74,000, and Alison [...]

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FancyName gets a Fancy Name – stepUp Coming Soon

December 19, 2007

Addendum : stepUp.org.au now online.
In a previous post we forshadowed an open-source GP-based collaborative lifestyle project for patients to improve their fitness and lose weight.
Thanks for all the feedback I have received.
The project is based on what we have learned about system change.
Improvements are best made in incremental steps, measuring as we go [...]

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FancyName® – The GP Collaborative Guide to Health

October 17, 2007

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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