Video: Dr. Mariah Stump's presentation
Video: Dr. Neal Barnard and Joel Erickson's presentation
Edamame corn & black bean salad
Food choices for cancer & survival
Nutrition for health-food plate
Plant-based eating out in Rhode Island
Plant Docs jump start your health flyer
Plant Docs plant-based cooking classes
White Paper/Policy Brief “Triple Threat” Diabetes, CV, & Obesity
Novonordiskworks.com: is a non-branded website that provides resources and information about the importance of chronic weight management and impacts of obesity, on market access stakeholders, and to encourage organizations to take action in providing a comprehensive approach to weight management.
TruthAboutWeight.com: is a website designed for employees/members/patients to learn more about the latest science behind weight loss and management and get answers to questions about how weight affects your health.
Resource library (novonordiskworks.com): Resource Library with educational resources and tools designed to help positive outcomes with weight loss and weight maintenance within your organization.
Other Resources
ObesityAction.org – this website has information on educational tools, obesity treatment and advocacy
Resources focused on addressing weight bias on the Obesity Action Coalition website
Preventing and managing chronic disease not only makes employees, less vulnerable to COVID, it improves over-all health and cuts employee health care costs. The Department of Health provides information and resources the enables people to better prevent and manage the following diseases: arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes( see diabetes webpage), heart disease, and stroke. More information here from the Rhode Island Department of Health Center for Chronic Care and Disease Management.
Persuading employees who are employees with chronic conditions to enroll in the RI Department of Health approved and sponsored management program that fits their situation best will protect health, guard against the worst impacts of COVID, and cut health care costs.
These evidenced based programs run by Community Health Network will substantially improve health outcomes for participating employees and are free or low cost:
Helps lower your risk of getting Type 2 Diabetes by eating healthier, increasing physical activity, and losing weight. The DPP focuses on lasting changes that are manageable for each patient. Participants must have a pre-diabetes diagnosis, be screened in based on the CDC screening tool, or have a history of gestational diabetes. It must also be medically safe for them to lose weight.
Teaches you to manage symptoms of diabetes such as fatigue, pain, hyper/hypoglycemia, stress, depression, anger, fear, and frustration. Participants must have a diagnosis of diabetes or have a family member, friend, or patient with diabetes who they are learning on behalf of.
CDOEs and CVDOEs are registered nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists who can teach you how to manage your glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, medication, and nutrition. Participant must have a diabetes diagnosis and physician referral to participate.
Teaches you how to manage symptoms and medications, communicate with family and doctors, relieve stress, eat well, exercise, and set achievable goals.
Provides you with the tools to manage medications, fatigue, frustration, proper nutrition, and communication skills, and teaches you to evaluate treatments and make an action plan.
Teaches you to safely make physical activity part of your everyday life to reduce pain or be more active.
To enroll, contact:
Diabetes Prevention Program - Kelsea Tucker at Kelsea.Tucker@health.ri.gov
Chronic Disease Prevention Programs - Jasmine Franco at Jasmine.Franco@health.ri.gov
Community Health Networks: by email: Community Health Network at the RI Parent Information Network (communityhealthnetwork@ripin.org) or by phone 401-432-7217
Informational PDF’s for distribution to employees:
Getting a flu shot is the single best step anyone to take to prevent getting the flu and it is safe. As CDC states, “An annual flu vaccine is the best way to reduce your chances of getting the seasonal flu and spreading it to others. CDC recommends that everyone 6 months of age and older receive an annual flu vaccine. For more than 50 years, hundreds of millions of Americans have safely received seasonal flu vaccines.”
