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Healthy Hospital Food Environment: Policy & Programs in Practice
(2012-05-07)This invited presentation highlights the state of weight at Vidant Health, a health care system serving 29 counties in eastern North Carolina and its innovative Health Food Environment program. A policy, effective in 2012, ... -
Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
(2012-10)This paper documents the steps Vidant Health took from 2003 to 2012 in creating a healthy food environment. It describes criteria for foods to be sold/provided to employees and visitors. It provides a rationale for selecting ... -
The heart healthy lenoir project-an intervention to reduce disparities in hypertension control: study protocol
(2013)Background Racial disparities in blood pressure control are well established; however the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on blood pressure has garnered less attention. Office based interventions that are created with ... -
North Carolina's Plan to Address Obesity: Healthy Weight and Healthy Communities
(2013-02-07)This presentation describes the 2013-2020 NC Obesity Plan. Evidence based core behaviors are described as well as strategies for encouraging the adoption of those behaviors in worksites, health care and colleges and ... -
Generic Medications and Blood Pressure Control in Diabetic Hypertensive Subjects
(2013-03)OBJECTIVE To investigate temporal improvements in blood pressure (BP) control in subjects with diabetes and policy changes regarding generic antihypertensives. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study ... -
Creating Vidant Health's Healthy Food Environment
(2013-04)The paper describes the journey taken by Vidant Health (formerly University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina) to create a healthy eating environmnet on its entire campus. Vidant Health was among the first hospitals in ... -
The Need for Interprofessional Collaborative Ready Nutrition and Dietetics Practitioners
(2014-10-01)This is the full length paper of what turned out to be a published brief after going through peer review. Many of our colleagues have requested the original full length description which is more of a call to action for ... -
How Sweet It Is: Traditional Sweet Iced Tea and the Diabesity Epidemic.
(2015-01)In this paper we present four cases from our medical practice to increase awareness of the role of sweet tea in obesity and diabetes management. We start with a history of Southern style “sweet tea”, and discuss the ... -
Generational differences in practice site selection criteria amongst primary care physicians.
(2016)Background and Objectives: Generational differences are often viewed as shaping the overall attitudes and actions of different age cohorts. It is essential to understand the motivations and generational differences in ... -
Generational differences in practice site selection criteria amongst primary care physicians.
(2016-01-25)Background and Objectives: Generational differences are often viewed as shaping the overall attitudes and actions of different age cohorts. It is essential to understand the motivations and generational differences in ... -
A Pacific Food Guide from the Children's Healthy Living PRogram
(2016-02)The paper describes the development of the Pacific Food Guide. The Food Guide includes fruits, vegetables, fish and animals not typically found in the US Food Guides but are consumed by individuals living int the Pacific. ... -
Special Concerns through an early pregnancy journey
(2016-06)Nutrition and supplementation in the woman of reproductive age can have profound and lasting effects on her child’s health. Preconception planning for all women should include advice to begin folic acid supplementation at ... -
Embracing a plant-based diet. What is it and what's the evidence
(2017-05)In this paper we present a case of a young health professional feeling peer pressure to become vegan. We also present a case of a vegan baby. We discuss nutrient of concerns for individuals restricting or eliminating animal ... -
In-ear hearing test probe devices and methods and systems using same
(2017-11-04)A medical hearing testing method includes: inserting an in-ear test probe that is coupled to a hearing test adapter into an ear of a patient at a patient site; receiving device identification data at a web portal operating ... -
Creating and sustaining a healthy food environment in hospitals with a food service management company
(2018-01)This article updates a 2010 article, Moving Toward Healthier Eating Environments in Hospitals. It provides advocates for healthy food environments in hospitals with suggestions about the roles they can play in initiating ... -
creating and sustaining a healthy food environment in hospitals with a food service management company
(2018-01)This paper describes the successes and challenges in hospitals providing a healthy food environment for employees as well as visitors to the hospital. Based on literature review and interviews of professionals, including ... -
Stress and burnout in nutrition and dietetics
(2018-03)Literature from across multiple health professions points to a budding crisis where current and future health professionals are experiencing stress and burnout at an alarming rate that threatens the vitality of our healthcare ... -
What to do when doctors disagree on diet for women with Gestational Diabetes
(2018-05)Medical nutrition therapy is considered the cornerstone of treatment for gestational diabetes mellitus, even though there is no consensus on the best dietary approach to achieve optimal glycemic control and positive maternal ... -
I want to survive and thrive: diet and physical activity recommendations for Breast Cancer Survivors
(2018-09)In this article, we review current diet and physical activity recommendations for long-time survivors of breast cancer. We also hear the voice of a survivor and her response to the diagnosis of a postmenopausal breast ... -
Eat more family meals at home
(2018-09-05)This is a Q and A newspaper column. The topic, to celebrate Family Meals at Home month encouraged families to eat at least one more meal at home a week. The article describes research findings of the benefit of doing so.