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How Does Stress Affect Your Physical Health? How to Reduce Stress
Stress! Don't Let It Make You Sick New research reveals the links between stress and disease... "We are just beginning to understand the ways that stress influences a wide range of diseases of aging, including heart disease, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and...
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Why Eating Processed Foods Might Make You Fat – 10 Processed Foods to Avoid
Why Eating Processed Foods Might Make You Fat People who followed a diet of ultra-processed foods ate about 500 more calories a day compared to when they ate a whole foods diet. In recent years, many nutrition experts have linked the obesity epidemic to the spread of...
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Classes & Events – Can the Right Foods Keep Us Healthy?
Can the Right Foods Keep Us Healthy? - Classes & Events Join Dr. Hillel Harris for a discussion about how the right foods can help keep us healthy. Wednesday, May 22 2019 at 10:00AM Can the Right Foods Keep Us Healthy? The best treatment for illness is prevention....
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Healthy Living – Your Weekly Exercise Workout Plan – Personalized Lifestyle Medicine
How to Start Exercising and Stick to It Making Exercise an Enjoyable Part of Your Everyday Life You already know there are many great reasons to exercise—from improving energy, mood, sleep, and health to reducing anxiety, stress, and depression. And detailed exercise...
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Nutrition – Plant vs Animal Protein
PLANT PROTEIN VS. ANIMAL PROTEIN The average adult person consumes 80 grams of protein per day – far more than is necessary! Excess protein is stored as fat and can lead to weight gain or prevent weight loss. Our bodies benefit from consuming mostly fruits,...
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Exercise Can be Considered Medicine
Exercise vs. Drugs to Treat High Blood Pressure and Reduce Fat Exercise can lower blood pressure and reduce visceral body fat at least as effectively as many common prescription drugs, two new reviews report. Exercise can lower blood pressure and reduce visceral body...
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Low-Carb Diets
Low-Carb Diets Linked to Higher Odds for A-Fib People who regularly got fewer than 45 percent of their calories from carbohydrates were 18 percent more likely to develop a-fib than people who ate a moderate amount of carbohydrates (about 45 percent to 52 percent of...
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Lifestyle Medicine
How Lifestyle Medicine Physicians Treat Patients By focusing on lifestyle interventions, physicians seek to improve their patients’ health and prevent future illnesses. Lifestyle medicine uses three main modalities to promote wellness: 1. Nutrition 2. Physical...
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What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine?
What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine? Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a new frontier for healthcare combining genomics, big data analytics, and population health. WHAT IS PRECISION MEDICINE? According to the Precision...
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What Really Causes Addiction? – Addiction Recovery Journey
A Navigation Guide To Self-Discovery During Your Addiction Recovery Journey For many people in recovery, the road to a substance-free life is long and paved with difficult challenges. The physical, emotional, and mental toll recovery can bring sometimes makes it seem...
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Local Physician Among the Second-Ever U.S. Cohort Earning Board Certification in the Field of Lifestyle Medicine
Local Physician Among the Second-Ever U.S. Cohort Earning Board Certification in the Field of Lifestyle Medicine Delray Beach, FL – The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) has announced that Hillel Z. Harris, MD is among the 219 physicians and 93...
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Mind Over DNA in Exercise and Eating Habits
Mind May Trump DNA in Exercise and Eating Habits If you tell people they have a genetic predisposition to a low capacity for exercise or a tendency to overeat, their bodies start to respond accordingly... The study raises provocative questions about the extent to...
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