I want to commend Mark Bittman on the underlying message in his recent editorial in the New York Times, "What Causes Weight Gain." Bittman suggests that as much as we need research to "determine precisely what causes diet related chronic illnesses," we also need a program that will get this "single, simple message across: eat real food." While we have yet to isolate what in our diet is ...
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Health behavior change is hard; if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. But running a marathon is also hard, and lately it seems that just about everyone is doing it. The health care industry could learn a lot from the increasing popularity of the marathon about how to design programs that help people make positive health behavior changes.
At its core, running 26.2 miles has much in common with the process of health ...
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