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We are coming to the end of the holiday season and many of our patients are starting to think about what they will do for their health in the new year. Some of them have asked for exercise equipment or gadgets as a holiday gift, and others have decided to sign up for a weight loss program. A quick scan of TV advertising shows only a small amount of "diet and exercise" commercials but you can bet that on December 26th the number of those ads will increase dramatically.
This week we have some information that you will want to share with your patients so that they can achieve long term success. Item #8, Extending Patients' Lives by Five Years, shows that engaging in at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity each week can extend life up to five years longer. Item #11, Insulin the Cause of Obesity, looks at how high levels of insulin may be responsible for obesity rather than the other way around, and Item #4, Maintaining Weight Loss as Important as Losing, looks at reasons that keeping the weight off is valuable.
Most importantly, our own Dr. Sheri Colberg, has prepared a feature that you will want to give to each and every one of your patients. Losing Weight Is the Easy Part: How to Keep It Off for Good puts everything in perspective and ties in to each of the ideas mentioned in the items above.
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Newsflash
FDA Launches Next Stage of "Bad Ad Program" to Detect Misleading Drug Ads. The program is designed to educate healthcare providers about their role in ensuring that prescription drug advertising and promotion is truthful, and not misleading. For more information visit www.fda.gov/badad.
New Next-generation OmniPod® Approved by FDA. The new OmniPod insulin pump is more than one-third smaller and one-quarter lighter than the original model, while maintaining the same 200-unit insulin reservoir capacity.
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Tool for your Practice
One Step Change Begins with Just One Step
The start of a new year is the perfect time to have your patients think about the lifestyle changes they want to make to be healthier. Small changes -- such as losing a small amount of weight and becoming more active -- can go a long way toward improving their health. But even if they know what to do, figuring out how to do it and fitting it into their daily routine can be a challenge. This tool will help your patients break down their goals for making modest but important lifestyle changes into small, achievable steps. This New Year, help your patients make their resolution the first step toward a healthier life. The NDEP's Just One Step tool will help them take the first of many small steps that can lead to big rewards. Take just one step toward better health today! One Step tool |
Product of the Week
AliveCor iPhone Heart Monitor
AliveCor's iPhone-compatible single-channel ECG monitor will be available in the US on January 1. The FDAhas cleared the 510(k) for the device. The AliveCor monitor is in a thin case with two electrodes that snaps onto the back of an iPhone 4 or 5. To obtain an ECG recording, the patient just holds the device while pressing fingers from each hand onto the electrodes. The device can also obtain an ECG from the patient's chest. The AliveCor ECG iPhone app can record rhythm strips of any duration to be stored on the phone and uploaded securely to the cloud for later analysis, sharing, or printing through AliveCor's website. (See this wek's Item #5.) |
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MOBILE APP OF THE WEEK
HeartWise Blood Pressure Tracker
 Patients can use this app to help keep track of their blood pressure, resting heart rate, and weight. HeartWise for iPad has bult-in visualization that shows trends over time, and detailed analysis and statistics can show how blood pressure fluctuates on a daily basis. Click here for more information and how to download.
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