May 20, 2022

Medication Non-Adherence: Unlocking Key Barriers for Lasting Behavior Change

Medication Adherence

Convincing patients with chronic diseases to take their medication correctly and consistently can be difficult. Medication non-adherence creates a variety of maladaptations ranging from treatment failure to dangerous pharmacological interactions, all negatively impacting the patient’s health. The financial costs are also staggering. Hospitalizations caused by non-adherence costs upwards of $100 billion (about $310 per person in the US) annually. Since non-adherence can have many triggers, it is necessary to tackle the problem from both the individual …

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April 1, 2021

Widespread use of fruit and vegetable prescription programs may be way off, but here’s what dieticians and physicians can do today to help their patients

Healthy Meals

The recent blog post by Garry Welch, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Silver Fern, focused on ways to improve Americans’ fruit and vegetable intake. Dr. Welch discussed the rationale for society to invest in programs that allowed and encouraged medical personnel to prescribe food as opposed to, or in combination with medicine, to treat chronic …

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March 19, 2021

Can we transform our nation’s health if clinicians strongly promote fruits and vegetables with patients?

Healthy Meals

This post explores the healing power of fruits and vegetables and the need for clinicians to become more involved in national strategies that encourage Americans to eat more of them. Research shows that eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and seeds as part of a broader lifestyle medicine strategy – especially combined with weight loss …

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