News and Articles from Positive Choice Integrative Wellness Center
Smart Shopping
Fill your cart with healthy options! When you make healthy choices at the grocery store, it's easier to keep making them every day at home. Arm yourself with these smart shopping tricks to avoid supermarket temptations. Before you go Plan your meals first. List what...
Exercise Band Total Body Workout
View Positive Choice’s new 10-minute total-body, strength band exercise video . Look under the fitness tab on this site. Exercise Physiologists, Chris Heslin and Nicole Meichtry lead you through a quick strength training session that you can do on the road, at your...
Positive Choice Nominated for Best Weight Loss Program
The Positive Choice Wellness Weight Programs are on the ballot for the San Diego Union Tribune’s BEST READER’S POLL, 2013. We could use your vote! We are listed under the Healthy Living/Weight Loss Clinic. You can vote once a day until July 7th. Click on the link below to cast your votes! www.sdbestpoll.com
WEIGHT of the Nation for Kids May 7, 2013
Kaiser Permanente is sponsoring the launch of a three-part documentary film series, The Weight of the Nation for Kids, on HBO. As part of the organization’s continued efforts to promote a national conversation about obesity, Kaiser Permanente is sponsoring the launch of a three-part film series, The Weight of the Nation for Kids, which premieres
Solutions to Insomnia
Sleeping Less in San Diego Can it Make You Sick, Fat, or Worse? By Vicki Pepper MS, RD If you are lucky, you will spend one-third of your life sleeping… and the other two-thirds of your life will be profoundly influenced by the quality and quantity of that sleep! ...
Wellness Coaching by Phone for Kaiser Permanente Members
Kaiser Permanente provides FREE Wellness Coaching by Phone; this personalized service assists you in reaching your lifestyle and wellness goals. Coaching is provided on five topics: Quit Tobacco; Get Active; Eat Healthy; Manage Weight; or Reduce Stress. Wellness...
Are Organic Foods Better?
That Flawed Stanford Study By MARK BITTMAN I tried to ignore the month-old “Stanford study.” I really did. It made so little sense that I thought it would have little impact. That was dumb of me, and I’m sorry. The study, which suggested — incredibly — that there is no “strong evidence that organic foods…
Cyndi: Lost 86 lbs.
My name is Cyndi Kalbaugh and in 2007 I lost 86 pounds in Kaiser Permanente’s Positive Choice Weight management Program. I’m a 45 year old mother of two fantastic boys and a full time business trainer. Although we all have our stories of how we put the weight on mine started as an adult. Looking back I married young to my best friend without the maturity of understanding what we both really needed from marriage. However when you’re busy in “life” you just press forward, focus on being married, plan a career, help aging parents, and start your own family.
Carlene: Weight Loss Success
I wanted to lose weight for health reasons. It was getting harder to manage my blood pressure even on medication, I was pre-diabetic, my blood cholesterol was high, my knee hurt so much I wasn’t exercising, and I had other disturbing health problems. I am a Grandmother to 5 beautiful grandchildren and I wanted to be around to enjoy and have fun with them. After discussing options with my doctor, she recommended Kaiser Permanente’s Positive Choice Weight Management Programs.
Sugar: A Sweet Deception
When Emperor Darius invaded India in 510 B.C. he called it, “the reed which gives honey without bees.” The Crusaders called it sweet salt when they brought it to the European continent, and white gold is what the British called it in 1750 when it became the most valuable crop produced in all of Europe. Today we call it sugar and it is considered a basic food staple of the American diet. Sugar even rates a spot on the government food pyramids. Most Americans rarely go a day without consuming one form of sugar or another. We add it to just about everything—even ketchup, medicines, and baby food.
Germina: Weight Loss Success
I was classified as obese for 25 years, and could never stick to a weight loss program for very long. I was a compulsive overeater and was embarrassed by my weight, as well as the inability to control my eating. Every year I attended a banquet of runners with my husband, and each year I dreaded going because I was the only fat girl in the room. My self-esteem was low and I was not living the life I had always dreamed of. I could only dream of living a life free from food addiction.
The Trouble with Fat
If only you would lose some weight. You’ve heard that phrase a million times and then you hear things like…your knees or back wouldn’t hurt so much…your blood cholesterol would come down…you could go off blood pressure medication…avoid diabetes…get pregnant…get healthy…get a date…be happy…whatever! You know these things are true, but the idea of losing all your extra weight can be overwhelming, making it easier to give up and do nothing at all.
Never Underestimate the Power of a Few Small Choices
Never underestimate the power of a few small changes. Think of the ripple effect of throwing something so tiny it would seem unnoticeable into a pond. Seems like it wouldn’t matter much, but we know that it doesn’t take a lot to disturb the delicate ecological balance of a pond. Our bodies are very similar to environmental systems. Small changes in behaviors can and do lead to dramatic changes in our health and wellbeing.