Nov 13, 2013
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....
Aug 19, 2013
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...
Jun 18, 2013
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...
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...
Jan 7, 2013
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! ...
Nov 29, 2012
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...
Oct 30, 2012
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...
Apr 2, 2012
My name is Cyndi Kalbaugh and in 2007 I lost 86 pounds in Kaiser Permanente’s Positive Choice Weight management Program. We all have our stories of how we put the weight on, mine started soon after I married. I was busy with “life” and pressing forward, working on...
Mar 12, 2012
Carlene’s Story 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...
Mar 2, 2012
Get the PDF version of this article By Vicki Pepper, M.S., R.D., Kaiser Permanente, San Diego California 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...
