Whole Health Partners’ Blog
With Dietitians and Doctors, Collaboration is Key
When a patient comes to Whole Health Partners, one of the first things we ask them is whether we can coordinate our care with their primary care physician.
There’s a reason for that.
How Technology Can Transform Your Wellness Journey
Does your body respond differently to a snack you eat at 10pm, versus if you eat that same thing for lunch?
What does stress do to your blood sugar levels?
How can you easily adapt your meal plan, and still stick to your dietary prescription, when plans for the week change?
These are just a few of the questions that might come up when examining how your behaviors and environment impact your wellbeing. Fortunately, there’s a new breed of interactive wellness technologies that can help to provide some answers.
Putting Mindful Eating at the Heart of the Holidays
As the holidays approach, it’s not uncommon for our patients to start worrying about the impact that work parties, family celebrations and other holiday indulgences may have on their progress toward long-term health goals.
Fortunately, there are plenty of strategies that we can
Beyond 'Exercise': Rediscovering the Joy of Movement
Our culture loves to put things in boxes. That's why we so often think of 'exercise' as being specifically confined to activities like going to the gym, or participating in organized sports. Yet the truth is that your quads don't care if you're doing squats, or if you're crouching down to weed your garden. That's why it can be helpful to think beyond activities traditionally thought of as 'exercise,' and instead start thinking about ways that you can get more active throughout the course of living your normal life.
Why Improved Sleep Means Better Health
The quality and quantity of our sleep often decreases as a natural consequence of getting older. Yet a lack of adequate sleep can hit at any age, In fact, according to the Sleep Foundation, 35% of U.S. adults report getting less than 7 hours of sleep each night.
From “Weight” to “Wellness”: Five Tips for Managing Your Weight, Without Obsessing Over It
Our culture loves to talk about weight loss as a shorthand for being healthy. Yet each of us has different metabolisms, different body types, and different health goals too. So at Whole Health Partners, we are very careful to remind people that your ideal weight—just like many aspects of your health—is personal, and it should be strongly influenced by what makes you feel best within your body.
Practical Ways to Boost Your Energy: 4 Areas of Focus
The world, and America in particular, is not short of diet philosophies, approaches and plans. And many of these can be a terrific framework for improving your health. Often, however, the focus is mostly on depriving ourselves of the things that we consider ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy.’
Dieting vs. Behavior Change: Why We Always Focus on the Latter
The world, and America in particular, is not short of diet philosophies, approaches and plans. And many of these can be a terrific framework for improving your health. Often, however, the focus is mostly on depriving ourselves of the things that we consider ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy.’
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
The wider medical profession has long understood that lifestyle and behavior plays a critical role in overall health. What’s sometimes been less well understood, however, is how to make behavior change actually stick.
Whole Health Method: What Is It, and How Can It Help You?
There are no silver bullets when taking care of your health. Yet there are countless decisions that each of us make every single day which can impact our wellbeing in both positive and negative ways. When we are in the thick of our day-to-day lives, however, it can be hard to stick to a plan.