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Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work?

submitted by: admin on 11/08/2017
An article published in the January 2014 issue of Health Affairs reported on cost effectiveness of PepsiCo's workplace wellness program and reported that it had no significant value when it came to financial benefit or for cutting absenteeism, quitting smoking, or reducing weight. They went on to state that regular screening for early detection of diseases...

DoctorSaputo.com Wellness Assessments for self-health monitoring

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Here at DoctorSaputo.com we hold the philosophy that each of us has the potential to improve and maintain our mind/body health at an optimal level. This is what we refer to as "self empowerment."   We believe it is time for what Len Saputo, M.D. calls in his medical practice "patient centered care" ...and what we refer to here online...

Excessive Usage of Health Care

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Health care costs are no longer affordable. We have a model based on getting sick rather than on staying well. This is a failed system: half of us have a chronic disease, the system is not safe, and we cannot afford to sustain it.

Food for Thought with Cindy Geshon

submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Dr. Len interviews the founder of the Wellness City Challenge in Contra Costa County that is revolutionizing the diets of school children. Her leadership in hands on "eat and learn" classes and promotion of what a healthy diet is is making grass roots changes in the community.      

Gaya Bhatnagar, Lac, MS, CAP

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Gaya Bhatnagar, Lac, MS, CAP Acupuncturist and Herbalist Credentials Gaya Bhatnagar is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist. She is also a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, as well as holding certificates in Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture, Shiatsu and Reiki. Gaya has studied with the top Acupuncturist, Ayurvedic Practitioners and Naturopathic...

General Wellness and Prevention Protocol

submitted by: admin on 06/09/2014
  We cannot be healthy if we don't live a healthy lifestyle. If all of our cells are healthy, infact, it is impossible to be sick! So, our job is to keep our cells healthy by living a healthy lifestyle that includes diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, proper weight, and having meaningful purpose in our lives. If we follow these principles,...

General Wellness Health Assessment

submitted by: admin on 04/18/2015
Dr. Saputo's General Wellness Health Assessment asks questions about your lifestyle and its deficiencies, what physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges you are faced, and what you can do to deal with them using mainsteam and CAM approaches.   We cannot be healthy if we don't live a healthy lifestyle. If all of our cells are healthy it...

Get Active in Health Care Reform

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
                      A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and The Future of Medicine  

Health Care Costs Cause 50% of Bankruptcies

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Health care costs cause half of all bankruptcies in the US and 94% are threatened by them. Even major corporations cannot compete with foreign businesses because of the cost of health insurance. We need health care reform to control costs. This likely means a new paradigm based on wellness and prevention are necessary.

Health Care Reform or Not?

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
2009-10 was designated as the time when Americans would see Health Care reform. However, what we got was insurance reform, and not a whole lot of it. This was necessary but insufficient...we must shift from disease thinking to health thinking.

Health Care Reform: A Physician's Point of View

submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Dr. Lonnie Bristow and Dr. Len held a town hall meeting on health care reform with the two MDs from different perspectives. The issues discussed include the insurance industry, big pharma, hospitals, universal health care, and solutions we support. We need a health care reform that includes wellness and prevention as well as health care for all.

How Do We Diagnose Your Health with Dr. Richard Kunin

submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
People need to work on being healthy rather than waiting until they get sick. How Do We Diagnose Your Health? In medicine they diagnose disease, but what do you do to diagnose health?  What is this thing called the wellness buffer? How do we put space between ourselves and when our bodies start to malfunction? Dr. Len and Dr. Kunin discuss taking the...

How Healthy Can You Be? With Richard Kunin

submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
We all too often focus on how sick we are, but it also makes sense to focus on how healthy can we be. Lifestyle is the most powerful medicine. Orthomolecular medicine uses naturally occuring substances to support health and wellness and prevent disease. "Naturology" or natural medicine, or naturopathy puts nutrition first...that comes before drugs but...

Hypertension: Using Lifestyle to Manage It

submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
Hypertension does not have to be permanent. It is related to the style in which we live our lives and we can modify that. Underlying causes and tools for treatment are described.            

Insurance Company Thinking

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Insurance companies depend on our being sick to make a profit. Physicians released the purse strings of medicine to the insurance industry. Now they control the practice of medicine. MDs need to take back this financial authority..

Integrative Cancer Strategies

submitted by: admin on 06/18/2016
  When you have a diagnosis of cancer, choosing a treatment is very challenging. We cannot go to a single practitioner most of the time because they know either mainstream or CAM approaches. The major mainstream approach is to fight the cancer, to kill it. The major approach of CAM practitioners is to strengthen the body so it can deal with cancer itself....

Is a Lack of Exercise a Medical Condition?

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk for many diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, hypertension and much more. Should lack of exercise be considered a medical condition. A researcher from the Mayo Clinic published an article in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Physiology stating that a lack of exercise should be considered...

It's Time For Health Care Efficiency

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The government has taken the position that health care reform will lead to cost savings by being more proficient. However, we're adding 30 million more people to the system and are still trying to save costs...where's the logic? The problem is that the economy cannot stand to reduce health care costs because it is an economic stimulus in itself.

Lifestyle Health Assessment

submitted by: admin on 02/20/2015
  Lifestyle is our most powerful medicine, is safe, and within our control to use. Even our genetic code, DNA, is clearly modifyable through lifestyle practices. Our belief system also has a powerful effect on our health; examples are provided. Phamacological drugs can be lifesaving, but compared to lifestyle medicine they are usually minor players.   Dr....

Managing DCIS

submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
  DCIS accounts for 22% of breast cancers but only 2% develop into lethal cancer. The remaining 98% are overtreated with unnecessary surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. We need a better screening test.            
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