Why Lifestyle is the BEST Medicine | Meagan L. Grega | TEDxLehighRiver
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The United States spends more per person on healthcare than any other nation in the world, yet our health outcomes are near the bottom of the list when compared to countries with similar education and economic resources. The chronic disease epidemic that has emerged over the last 50 years, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia, can be attributed to the cumulative effect of lifestyle choices we make every day.
Meagan L. Grega, MD, is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (www.kellyn.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice. Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and “Garden as a Classroom”
programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce via the Eat Real Food Mobile Market and Lehigh Valley Corner Store Initiative; engages participants in hands-on, plant-based cooking classes in community settings and offers intensive therapeutic lifestyle change interventions for individuals and families. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
Child/Family health in general, and the obesity epidemic in particular, are issues in which Dr. Grega has had a long-standing interest. She believes the benefits of regular exercise, adequate sleep, supportive social connections, healthy food choices and the art of balance are the keys to improving our children’s future, as well as our own. Towards that end, she is committed to
finding practical solutions that can be implemented by families and communities to strengthen each other physically, emotionally and spiritually. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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2. NO SMOKE
3. EXERCISE 30MIN ADAY
4. PLANT BADED DIET
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Fabulous talk!!!!
The mention of popcorn made me crave popcorn 😨
Thank you Dr. Grega for sharing your thoughts on the
importance of health nutrition. I feel like many people nowadays forget just
how important a balanced diet has on our overall health and this was a perfect
talk to remind us of it.
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I’m very impressed by the evidence based argument for the importance of lifestyle in a populations health. I do think however that we need to consider the large economic barriers that may people have in making healthy choices. While encouraging, I don’t think the speaker emphasized how challenging this can be for people. Even though lifestyle changes can improve outcomes, there are genetic and mental health considerations. Certain populations and people may need more “social nudges” than others to achieve the same result. I love the idea of integrating the community and bringing together farmers, physicians, and others. I wonder how we best integrate this type of model in “food deserts” however. For children I wonder if focusing on school lunch programs might improve the number of people who develop chronic health conditions. In Japan, many school aged children participate in cooking and cleaning up their school meals which are very balanced nutritionally. This model could ensure that all children can learn health eating/cooking skills.
A healthy life is a life of service… if you want to be happy… you should be a giver… selfish people don’t have a good life…
Thank you so much Ma’m for the wonderful information
As an osteopathic medical student, I am appreciative of the fact that Dr. Meagan Gregan is having a talk on lifestyle. One of the osteopathic tenets is that the body is a unit where everything is related and connected to one another. We have to consider all parts of our being like spiritual, emotional and physical when taking care of ourselves. Focusing on preventative medicine and lifestyle is fulfilling the ethical principle of beneficence where we are promoting good, and preventing removing harm that is disease in our patients. I think the biggest role that fits in with this for our patients is patient education. By educating our patients on what could happen if they don’t make lifestyle changes it can show them the risks without having the disease. For example, with type 2 diabetes we want to make sure our patients are at a healthy weight, and consuming a healthy diet which can help reduce their risk of getting T2D.
We can take our Blue Zones along with us! I was born at Loma Linda, one of the Blue Zones identified in the study, and my family embraced the healthy lifestyle even though they later moved elsewhere.
My parents aged gracefully and are now gone, but those who I know, who also embrace basic healthy choices, are still living in that Blue Zone.
It can be done wherever you are, if you want it.
This is fine as far as it goes. At the core, however, is the social message that says "consume": either consume a Big Mac, or consume a pop-science talk or a book that tells you that you can cure disease if you just eat the right things.
This doctor is a true healer! When I realized that I didn’t eat a lot of vegetables….. I also came to terms with the fact that I didn’t really know how to cook them that well. Then a little while later I came to terms with the fact that I needed to buy some books on how to cooked vegetables so that I would enjoy them. However, I believe I need nudging from some new friends. Would love to become involved with her foundation. She has done the research and put together a complete package. Please pass this video along to everybody you know! We citizens have to create our own tsunami to combat Madison avenue’s marketing strategies.
I always make time for the gym like hour and half working on different muscle groups, and focusing on mental health is huge. Thanks for the videos man. Love to be a better version of myself
Highly Valuable Information. Thank You for the depth of this Communication. ❤ We have to be committed to our own health. Making Right and Healthy Choices are Essential. This Resonates so well with me🙏🏾.
glad i dont live in America, too many smart people there, hehe
Wonderful Information..Thanks…
I think Dr. Grega does a fantastic job at explaining the benefits of changing our lifestyle in response to disease. As a current osteopathic medical student, we are taught to incorporate the body, mind, and spirit when treating a patient. Pharmacotherapy is an incredible advancement the science community has made and continues to be one of the best first-line therapies for many conditions; however, it is not the only therapy available. I appreciated the emphasis Dr. Grega placed on living a healthier lifestyle to prevent disease, but I do think it is easy to overlook how difficult this might be for certain individuals. Eating healthy and organic foods might be too expensive for some people; for others, they might not have time in their day to workout for 30 minutes. I think as a society, we need to remember that some people are doing the best they can just to survive, and adding additional pressures such as healthy eating and daily exercise is not always a choice for some. The concept of beneficence in medicine is the obligation to do what is in the best interest for the patient. I think it is important to remember that what physicians might think is best for the patient, may not actually be. Prescribing a healthier diet may not be in the patient’s budget, but prescribing a pill might be covered by their health insurance. It is best for all medical professionals to keep the whole patient in mind when selecting the right treatment for them. For those patients who do have the flexibility of trying lifestyle adjustments, I absolutely think that it should be added on to any necessary prescriptions. Something as simple as time outside in the sunshine could make all the difference to one patient. As technology continues to advance, doctors must remember that while there are dozens of prescription medications and procedures to be performed, sometimes it is better to stick to the basics.
Any diet is better that the SAD diet the Standard American Diet.
Hopeful…
Difficult when work and stress are such difficult things to deal with these days.
Scrapped the carbs and reduced my blood pressure in a few days, corrected my blood lipids in 6 weeks and dropped 17 kg in 3 months. Now health is maintained by mainly animal food, with some cabbage, cauliflower, etc as side dishes. Excess energy from above automatically leads to more physical excersice after a while, to try to force weight loss by more excersise is futile, it only leads to more hunger and more consumption of lousy food.
WRONG ! ! ! ALL DISEASE’S DO
N-O-T HAPPEN BY "CHOICE."👎
A healthy lifestyle will prevent some problems in the future.
In the exposition to her main point, Dr. Grega mentioned four components, when followed, would significantly decrease adverse health outcomes. These included a BMI under 30.0, no smoking, participation in about 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, and following an unprocessed diet. She follows this by stating that an overwhelming minority are unable to attain all four of these components throughout their life. However, she fails to recognize that perhaps some members of the community would rather have a shorter lifespan filled with more of the guilty pleasures than a longer lifespan with none of them included. When I was a scribe several years back, there was one patient who adamantly refused to modify her high carbohydrate diet despite knowing what the implications included further down the road. She explained that she would prefer to “live to eat” rather than “eat to live.” Of course, the mindset of consuming everything in moderation is idealistic and beneficial to prolonging the lifespan. In American culture, the desire for autonomy reigns supreme over other ethical components including beneficence or maleficence.
I do see tremendous value in maintaining a strong sense of purpose and community as it has helped me with my experience during stressful life events, including medical school. As a future physician, I hope to be a fiduciary for my patients and provide them with the information to make informed decisions so that they can live healthy and meaningful, fulfilling lives. At the end of the day, ensuring that a person is happy with the decisions they have made is the most important role of being a physician. Sure, keeping someone alive for as long as possible may also be a factor, but to me, that is not the end-all-be-all. In American longevity I have seen firsthand an emphasis on quantity over quality. Not to condone self-mutilating habits and behaviors, but perhaps a person’s desires and vices should be factored into the equation of a healthy life instead of being marginalized and vilified.
Being Healthy is more cheaper than ill, choice is yours.
Dr. Grega, please take a good look at the work of Dr. Gabrielle Lyon and her mentor, Dr. Donald K. Layman.
Excellent talk!
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Easier said than done. Reduce stress? A challenge. I agree with her…lifestyle is more important than anything a doctor does. Most doctors don’t want to hear about those options. They’re seeing patients for 7 minutes. Blue zone? You’ve got a gene pool, not just a common lifestyle and food pattern.
Insightful video. I did all 4 of those points you said for many years & I practise self control in choosing what I eat.. exercise 5-6 times a week. Indeed it is true, one’s lifestyle contributes greatly to their general health. Sadly many people are unable to practice self control and indulgences..until the disease hit them.
I like it. Thank you.
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Unfortunately, the fast lifestyle, working long hours to pay bills won’t give you room for exercise, and cooking healthy meals. The system is the root of the problem, but can be achieved with tremendous efforts.