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Dean Ornish Talks Lifestyle As Treatment At NYC's Integrative Healthcare Symposium

Posted 02.12.2012

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It's not every day that you hear a medical doctor suggest that lifestyle changes can be a form of treatment that can reverse -- not just help prevent ...

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Ornish Diet Ranked First For Heart Health By U.S. News: Diet Inventor Explains What Makes It So Heart-Healthy

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 01.06.2012

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When it comes to heart health, the No. 1 dietary approach is the Ornish Diet, according to a ranking of 25 diets by U.S. News and World Report release...

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Meatless Monday: Make 2012 The Year Of Eating Vegan

Ellen Kanner | Posted 03.03.2012

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Ellen Kanner

Maybe you want to go vegan to reduce your carbon footprint. Or because you need to reduce your cholesterol. You do it out of a moral choice or because you've decided salmonella and E.coli outbreaks and food recalls mean steak and eggs are now off the menu -- forever.

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The Real Skinny On Nutrition

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.24.2011

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Kathy Freston

I meet so many people these days who want to get healthy, but just don't know where to find easy-to-understand information that will help them make decisions on how or what to eat.

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Aspen, CO: The Nation's First Meatless Monday Community

Chris Elam | Posted 08.06.2011

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Chris Elam

Cities such as San Francisco and Washington D.C. have made symbolic MM proclamations, but Aspen, Colorado is doing something much more exciting and comprehensive.

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Weekly Health Tip: A Big Fat Question

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deepak Chopra

Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com After our recent post about the dangers of trans fats (Weekly Health ...

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The Laurie David Interview, Part I: Dinner is Love

Chris Elam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Elam

Laurie David is fired up about family dinners. She's used her epiphany to write a book that demonstrates how family dinners have the potential -- if we embrace them -- to be so much more than just, "Hey Mom, what's for dinner?"

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Who's Who On AOL Healthy Living: Our Medical Review Board

Posted 08.28.2011

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AOL Healthy Living will bring you articles from the biggest topics in health and medicine today. Our esteemed panel of medical and wellness experts fr...

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Bill Clinton On Plant-Based Diet To Reverse Heart Disease (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 11.17.2011

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Bill Clinton discussed his plant-based diet to lose weight and reverse heart disease with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. WATCH: ...

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Google Health Takes A Big Step Forward

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Dean Ornish

Google Health has taken a big leap forward -- adding a new wellness dashboard that tracks everything from blood pressure to lifestyle aspects like exercise, stress, eating habits, even sleep quality.

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Atkins Diet Increases All-Cause Mortality

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Dean Ornish

This is the first study that examined mortality rates in those consuming an Atkins diet, and it confirms what I've been saying all along: an Atkins diet is not healthful and may shorten your lifespan.

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Medicare Approves Doctor's Holistic Healing Program

sfgate.com | Posted 11.17.2011

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Just this past month, Medicare finally gave approval to Ornish's program of a plant-based diet, meditation, exercise and support groups to treat heart...

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Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish Talk Health And Healing At TEDMED (VIDEO)

YouTube | Posted 11.17.2011

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Two pioneers in the field of and health wellness, Drs. Dean Ornish and Deepak Chopra, came together at the TEDMED conference to discuss their viewpoin...

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Dean Ornish Talks With Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

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Deepak Chopra

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Dr. Dean Ornish On An Alternative To Statins

New York Times | Dr Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

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Re "Plan to Widen Use of Statins Has Skeptics" (front page, March 31): The wrong question is being asked. It's not: "Should Crestor be given to reduce...

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Michelle Obama Steps Up As Health Champion

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

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Alison Rose Levy

I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.

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Rescuing Health Reform: Why Doctors Should Practice Lifestyle Medicine

Huffington Post | Mark Hyman, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, and Mike Roizen, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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We must not only change who is covered but also what is covered to include personalized lifestyle medicine if we are to make current treatments more effective and less costly.

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Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Dean Ornish

Searching for health information on the web can feel overwhelming. The power of the Internet is also its limitation--it provides information, but not guidance on how to sort what is credible and what is not.

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Why Health Care Reform Won't Reform Health

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

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Deepak Chopra

We've become a "sick-care system" that puts all its efforts in developing newer drugs and offering more surgery once a person is ill. Doctors are not trained to keep people healthy.

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Dr. Dean Ornish: Big Hole In The Health Care Debate

msn.com | Posted 11.17.2011

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Like many Americans, I am inspired by President Obama's commitment to health reform. Unfortunately, what was missing from his most recent speech was ...

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Don't Tread on Me: Transcending the Left Wing/Right Wing Health Care Debate

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Dean Ornish

I understand the anger at large insurance companies that drop coverage, or who don't provide coverage for 48 million Americans who are uninsured. Too much power concentrated in too few institutions often leads to abuses of power to the detriment of the American people.

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Resuscitating Health Care Reform

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Dean Ornish

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.

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The Essential Vegetarian Reading List

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Friedrich

I (strongly) suggest that all vegetarians read (and own) all these books, so that you can recommend them articulately and loan them to friends and relatives.

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The Weight Loss Hype: Why Counting Calories Never Works

Kathy Freston | Posted 11.17.2011

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Kathy Freston

There is a diet that works -- consistently -- at helping adherents to lose weight and keep it off, and which has a very high compliance rate.

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Alternative Medicine is Mainstream

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

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Deepak Chopra

It's time to move past the debate of alternative medicine versus traditional medicine, and to focus on what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under which circumstances.

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