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Dawn Lipthrott, LCSW
Ethical Health Partnerships
1177 Louisiana Ave. #212
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IMPORTANT:
The information contained in our website and in the links below
does not constitute medical advice. Its purpose is to help educate
and inform you and to help you develop an understanding of your
condition or treatment so that you can ask questions and discuss
what you learn with your physician. This is NOT intended to take
the place of evaluation and discussion with your doctor. Use
this simply to help further the discussion with your healthcare
professionals
Lifestyle Changes for YOUR Health
(ways you can help lower healthcare
costs!)
Weight Management:
Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator An essential starting place to set your
weight and lifestyle goals.
You might be surprised!
2005 Dietary Guidelines released by the USDA and Dept. of Health
and Human Services with recommendations for food groups and amounts
for healthy eating. You can download the recommendations in a
PDF file.
Weight Management Medscape
Patient Eduction Center.
Weight
Management Resource Center of
Medscape aimed at physicians, some good info for patients
too.
Weight
Management and Lifestyle Interventions (lots of articles on diet, exercise,
relationship to disease, etc.)
Nutrition.gov Eating
a balanced diet, losing weight sensibly, dietary supplements
and much more.
Healthier
Us Eating a balanced
diet, losing weight sensibly, dietary supplements and much more.
Patient Education on Weight Loss
Making
Sense of Diets, Part 1
Making
Sense of Diets, Part 2
High
and Low Carb diets
Combination Approaches to Weight
Management aimed at physicians,
some good info for patients too.
Weight
Losss: counseling and Long-Term Management aimed at physicians, some good info for patients
too.
Women, Obesity Throughout Adult
Life May be Linked to Neurodegeneration
More
Than Half of Adult Diabetics are Obese (leads to cardiovascular disease)
Slimmed-Down Health Plan Members
Lower Medical Costs
America on the Move Join for free to become part of a growing number
of people taking responsibility for their health through moderate
exercise and healthy eating.
Exercise:
1995
Consensus Statement of NIH on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular
Health
America on the
Move Join for free to
become part of a growing number of people taking responsibility
for their health through moderate exercise and healthy eating.
Smoking:
Smoking Cessation Medscape
Patient Eduction Center
The
QuitNet On-line interactive
guide to stop smoking, tools, resources for support. (Massachusetts
Tobacco Control Program)
Alcohol and Drug
Info:
National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information Prevention of substance abuse in
schools, families, workplace.
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