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Dean Ornish

Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

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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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Rescuing Health Reform: Why Doctors Should Practice Lifestyle Medicine

Huffington Post | Mark Hyman, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, and Mike Roizen, MD | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

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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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Why Health Care Reform Won't Reform Health

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

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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 11.12.2009 | Living

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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 09.28.2009 | Home

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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 09.09.2009 | Living

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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 06.08.2009 | Media

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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 04.25.2009 | Living

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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 02.09.2009 | Living

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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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Study: Changing Diet, Exercise Will Lengthen Lives

San Francisco Chronicle | David Perlman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living

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A carefully limited pilot study of 30 prostate cancer patients by scientists and doctors at UCSF and a Sausalito research institute indicates for the ...

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