The Staggering Costs of Diabetes – HealthCoach
November 12, 2019The American Diabetes Association (Association) released new research on March 22, 2018 estimating the total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $327 billion in 2017 from $245 billion in 2012, when the cost was last examined. This figure represents a 26% increase over a five-year period. The study, Economic Costs of Diabetes in the Read More
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems
October 12, 2019People in almost every region of the world could benefit from rebalancing their diets to eat optimal amounts of various foods and nutrients, according to the Global Burden of Disease study tracking trends in consumption of 15 dietary factors from 1990 to 2017 in 195 countries, published in The Lancet. The study estimates that one Read More
The Mind Body Relationship, Is A Two Way Street: Mind To Body, And Body to Mind – HealthCoach
August 6, 2019HealthCoach “Mens sana in corpore sano” (i.e., “A sound mind in a healthy body”) is possibly one of the phrases in human history with the widest range in meanings. Originally this phrase comes from Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal (~60–127 AD). Juvenal’s intention with this phrase was rather to teach his fellow Roman citizens the Read More
Wearables and Glucose Monitoring – HealthCoach
February 24, 2019More than 29 million people in the US have diabetes, a staggering one in four don’t know they suffer from it and K6 children are developing prediabetes at alarming rates. For those who do, how you regularly track glucose data depends on the type of diabetes one has and the treatment required. Monitoring is commonly Read More
The Next Wave of Fitness Wearables Will Send Data Directly To Doctors – HealthCoach
February 10, 2019HealthCoach 2019 You’re committed to becoming more active and healthy. So you join a gym, find a workout buddy, or hire a personal trainer. And like more and more of us, you might also buy a fitness tracker—a wearable wireless device with built-in sensors that measure your physical activity. According to a Gartner study, 68.1 million Read More
Turning Back The Biological Aging Clock
January 30, 2019Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured human cells, study finds. Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased, yielding large numbers of cells for study. A new procedure can quickly and efficiently increase the length of human telomeres, the protective caps Read More
HealthCoach – Corporate Wellness
January 17, 2019The “Unclogging” of Healthcare Delivery January 2019 HealthCoach- Corporate Wellness A well-crafted Corporate Wellness Program adapts easily to the digital world of smartphone messaging, wearable biometric data, content delivery and modern wellness strategies. As we move deeper into the 21st century of healthcare delivery, it has become readily apparent that the epidemic of chronic disease will remain Read More
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January 12, 2019The Gerald J. Joseph – HealthCoach Prevention Program (HCPP) empowers both doctors, patients and participants to improve treatment outcomes by safely engaging patients in health-behavior change supported by diet, organic nutraceuticals, and walking. HealthCoach communicates with participants on a daily basis, and the patient’s physician reviews the results every 90 days. Participants have the Read More
Alzheimer’s Disease, An Evolutionary Neuroscience Perspective – HealthCoach
October 28, 2018The Coevolution of Man & Food – Nature Got It Right Alzheimer’s Disease – Gerald J. Joseph – The HealthCoach Prevention Program INTRODUCTION Part 1 Alzheimer’s disease is now the third leading cause of death in the United States, following only by cardiovascular disease and cancer [1]. There are approximately 5.2 million Americans with AD, Read More
Biodiversity, The Future of Global Health: HealthCoach
August 19, 2018Biodiversity and Health Gerald J. Joseph, B.S., M.Ed. HealthCoach Getting a cold? Take some echinacea. Feeling stressed? Try a little ginseng. Worried and depressed? Perhaps some St. John’s wort will pick you up? According to Bob Stanley, the growth in popularity of these and hundreds of other herbal remedies in Europe and North America has Read More