Topic in Focus: Nutrition & Diet

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The recipe for success: How to eat right in med school

Improving your energy and outlook begins with monitoring your intake. Here are five tips for maintaining a balanced diet during med school.

Medical Student Health
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Why nutrition matters to your patients with hypertension

How much and how quickly can diet really help? And what kind is best for patients to pursue as they try to reduce their blood pressure with lifestyle changes alone?

Hypertension
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These tips on the little things can ease the big stressors

Creating life balance and identifying mechanisms to cope with stress is integral for those hoping to thrive in and out of the med school environment.

Medical Student Health
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Schools push lifestyle medicine to boost chronic-disease prevention

The AMA seeks more help for lifestyle medicine across the educational continuum. One medical school pursuing this direction is the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville.

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AMA offers 6 tips to improve heart health, prevent heart attack

AMA is offering tips to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in the millions of Americans currently living with high blood pressure.

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These med students learn to motivate lifestyle changes

Too many physicians are ill-equipped to help patients to do the hard work of changing harmful health behaviors. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is working to change that.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Turning up the heat in the kitchen to lower BP in practice

Patients who prepare their own healthful meals are likelier to make progress in blood-pressure control. Tulane’s medical school is training med students to help make that goal reality.

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Family gathered around the morning kitchen island.
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Don’t get stumped when patients ask for nutrition advice

With the new year, patients resolving to eat more healthfully will be asking for physicians’ help. New training gives you tools to help them succeed.

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10 New Year’s resolutions for your health and your family’s

The new date on the calendar offers everyone another opportunity to follow this advice to improve and maintain health.

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