8:00 am - 8:15 am
Welcome and Introduction
8:15 am - 9:15 am
The Cause and Cure of Modern Killer Diseases - Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN
Dr. Hans Diehl will briefly discuss the epidemiology, pathology and the risk factor concept underlying the circulation-related diseases. He will show how these chronic diseases, once rare, have now become a global epidemic largely affected by our Western lifestyle. The overriding driver of these diseases are the risk factors that are largely diet related, such as blood cholesterol levels, hypertension, obesity, diabetes. But they are also influenced by smoking, sedentary living, and unresolved stress.
He will show how our Western diet has undergone some dramatic changes in the 1970s when whole foods (high in fiber and nutritional density) became largely industrialized products (low in fiber and nutritional density, yet high in salt, sugar and fats), and animal products (made available as fast foods) became the staple of the masses.
Studies have shown that a comprehensive educational approach that will motivate and inspire, coupled with effective public policy, can support and facilitate choices towards a healthier lifestyle that is characterized by simple foods, daily exercise, sufficient sleep and abstinence from risky substances. He will show studies that have clinically demonstrated that this lifestyle medicine approach can slow down, arrest and even reverse many of these modern killer diseases.
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Review the epidemiology, pathology and risk factors of circulation-related chronic diseases
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Understand the primacy of diet in driving these risk factors.
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Be able to describe the major dietary changes of the 1970s.
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Review the clinical evidence of regression of atherosclerotic plaques that have facilitated the arrest and reversal of many of these chronic killer diseases.
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Break
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Lifestyle Medicine: The Common Sense Solution to the Chronic Disease Epidemic - Saray Stancic, MD
Dr. Stancic will describe her experience as a patient and physician over more than 20 years, and the scientific evidence which irrevocably changed her approach as a practicing Infectious disease specialist to one that is focused on the clinical practice of Lifestyle medicine. In sharing both personal and professional experiences she will review pertinent peer reviewed medical literature supporting and substantiating the power of lifestyle medicine in preventing, managing and reversing chronic illness. She will present the obstacles to a shift in the culture of current day clinical medicine from disease management to health promotion and prevention. Finally, offering a solution with the ushering in of a new medical education model for physicians in training.
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Discuss the origins of scientific evidence supporting diet and lifestyle choices playing a role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.
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Describe the science of epigenetics, and its possible role in chronic disease outcomes.
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Discuss the leading causes of death in the US, and the scientific evidence substantiating the role lifestyle modification plays in reducing risk of non-communicable illness.
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Discuss obstacles to correcting a failing healthcare system which focuses primarily on disease management rather than health promotion and prevention.
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Introduce a new era in clinical medicine which seeks to emphasize preventive/ lifestyle medicine as the solution to the healthcare crisis, the central theme of code blue.
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Lifestyle Medicine for Women: Bridging the Gap - David Kroska, MD, FACOG, diplomat ACLM
Women's healthcare across the lifespan encompasses not only the prevention in and management of the "usual suspects" of chronic disease, but many unique gender- specific disorders. Even the " usual suspects" such as heart disease have gender differences in symptoms and risk factors. A number of chronic diseases are either unique to women or occur with greater incidence such as PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), osteoporosis, breast cancer and increased rates of auto- immune disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease. The incidence of and morbidity of most of these chronic disorders is greatest in those countries consuming the western diet, and as orders of magnitude lower in areas where whole food plant- based diets are the norm under-pinning the role of lifestyle medicine, i.e." treating the cause", for women. In this overview presentation, the following topics will be addressed: PCOS, (it's not just infertility); bone health, (it's not a calcium deficiency disorder); women and heart disease; breast cancer, (it's time to talk about prevention), and more.
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The participant will gain a greater appreciation of the epidemiology of health issues unique to women
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Updating our awareness of women's healthcare needs across the lifespan
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Emphasizing the role of healthcare providers in educating patients on preventative care in women's health
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A number of specific disease/ disorders with elevated female gender-specific incidence/risk will be reviewed
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Lifestyle medicine in the community: the challenges and rewards of educating the public, experiences from 15 years of the LIFE program in St Cloud, MN
11:45 am - 12: pm
Lunch Break
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
Lunch and Learn: The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) and Results in the Community - Mei Liu, Certified CHIP Facilitator
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Overcoming Food Addiction and Sustaining Weight Loss - Chuck Carroll
Chuck Carroll will share his fierce struggle with food addiction and the extreme measures he had to resort to in order to overcome it. Chuck is 5 feet 5 inches tall and at his heaviest, his morbidly obese frame weighed 420 pounds. He was eating a daily diet of nearly 10,000 calories and was unable to go a day without eating the fast food fix that was akin to a cocaine. On the occasions that he would attempt to diet and eliminate the high fat, ultra-processed food from his diet he would experience wild mood swings that culminated in rage and also began feeling physically ill. The cycle trapped him in a deep depression which only fueled his desire to continue the unhealthy eating habits.
He will discuss the lengths he resorted to in order to break the addiction, how he has managed to maintain the weight loss, and the struggles and urges he still faces a decade after taking his last bite of fast food.
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For practitioners to gain a better understanding of food addiction
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To demonstrate the addictive properties of high-fat, high-salt fast food
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To demonstrate the link between poor nutrition and poor mental health
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To demonstrate best practices for overcoming food addiction from a patient perspective
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To demonstrate why certain foods should be viewed in the same light as narcotics, nicotine, and alcohol, which are widely accepted as unhealthy and potentially deadly substances among addicts
Food Addiction - Thomas Harman, MD
Picking up from Chuck Carroll’s presentation, Dr. Harman will discuss additional information about the role of addiction in our nutritional choices.
Behavioral Change and Health Coaching - Malia Ray, MD, Health Coach
We all know that we need to eat fruits and vegetables, and remain physically active. Why, then, do only one out of three adults get the recommended amount of physical activity each week, and only 1 in 10 eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables? Behavior change is difficult, but there are steps we can take to set ourselves up for success.
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Preventing and Reversing Diabetes - Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN; Stephen Turner, MD
This multimedia presentation will review some of the successful dietary therapies for preventing and reversing T2 diabetes.
Dr. Hans Diehl will briefly discuss the epidemiology of diabetes, its pathophysiology, and its current treatment approaches. Taking his cue from population studies, he will highlight the cultural changes accompanied by Westernization that most often precede the development and expansion of diabetes, especially in the context of an obesogenic lifestyle and diet.
Results from research efforts will be reviewed that show the efficacy of a whole food/plant-based diet coupled with a consistent daily activity program. Such a lifestyle, associated with its ability to reverse pre- and full-blown diabetes, will feature more natural diet that is high in fiber and phytonutrient content and low in cholesterol, saturated fat and obviously low in refined carbohydrates. The clinical results show efficacy in that medication requirements (oral drugs and insulin) usually come down in response to fasting glucose levels that usually begin to drop even within days. And quite consistently, over time, the medications often have to be withdrawn as the Fasting Blood Sugar and HbA1c levels move towards normal levels. At the same time, cardiovascular risk factors drop markedly, such as the levels of elevated lipids and blood pressure, depression and excess weight.
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Review the epidemiology and pathophysiology of diabetes
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Review the role of medication in treating and effecting the course of T2 diabetes
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Be able to describe the role of therapeutic diet in disarming diabetes
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Clearly understand the difference between refined and unrefined carbohydrates and the role of fiber
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Be able to differentiate the glycogenic vs lipogenic (intramyocellular lipids) concepts of T2 diabetes
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (45 min + 15 Q&A)
How Diabetes Impairs the Multiorgan System and the Role of Diet in Prevention and Treatment - Stephen Turner, MD
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Dinner Break
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Walk With a DOC - Malia Ray, MD
Join us for this energizing walk. Dr. Ray will give a brief presentation on a health topic followed by a walk in the skyway and subway tunnels to for a small tour of Rochester.
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Networking
Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester: