A photo of about 10 cheeseburgers cooking on a grill
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4 Min Read

Foodborne illnesses kill 3,000 a year: What physicians can do

CME for primary care and emergency physicians helps spot and prevent food poisoning that strikes one in six of us each year.

Prevention & Wellness
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2 Min Read

Limit junk-food ads that contribute to childhood obesity

AMA wants legislation to limit such marketing. Physicians also call for language-appropriate sex ed for students who lack English proficiency.

Chronic Diseases
Sugary soda being poured from can into a glass.
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Pennsylvania’s highest court to determine sugary-drink tax’s fate

The AMA says the tax helps lower obesity rates and that ruling against it could also jeopardize nontax initiatives to improve the public’s health.

Judicial Advocacy
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3 Min Read

How to talk with your patients about nutrition

Diet plays a big role in achieving BP control, but many physicians report not having the nutrition knowledge they need to help guide their patients.

Prevention & Wellness
Hands cutting up fresh vegetables.
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4 Min Read

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.

Med Student Health
Bananas, peppers, apples, carrots, and lettuce in a shopping cart
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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?

Prevention & Wellness
The Culinary Medicine Conference™ 2017 in New Orleans
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5 Min Read

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.

Prevention & Wellness
Family gathered around the morning kitchen island.
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3 Min Read

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.

Prevention & Wellness
Robert Carey, MD, Thomas Lee, MD, Karol Watson, MD, Paul Whelton, MD, and Patricia Salber, MD
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7 Min Read

For most, diet and exercise—not meds—key path to lower BP

Lead authors of the new hypertension guideline emphasize the importance of lifestyle changes in patients with high blood pressure.

Prevention & Wellness