Puvema

12/19/2025

"Working with a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach can help individuals improve their habits and achieve short and long-term health goals. Coaches partner with clients to develop personalized plans based on their unique needs and preferences, providing support, motivation, and accountability along the way."

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/641626958/nbhwc-continues-to-professionalize-the-health-wellness-coaching-industry-by-providing-the-national-board-certification?fbclid=IwAR2l1TFKUYunMkICiUExKSe-tsG2_FeG_JNOwhcI5fbd6XqxSTcj12zqZCE

12/17/2025

"The popular app promises weight loss without dieting. Then it proposes restrictive eating habits."

"The app is essentially a calorie tracker supplemented by lessons on behavior change and a personal coach who messages you. Many nutrition and mental health experts have warned that the way Noom presents itself is misleading."

"On day two, I opened the app and saw, at the top of the screen, a calorie goal for the day: 1,200. Given all of Noom’s talk of psychology, behavior change, and not being a diet, I was surprised that it expected me to track my calories at all. But I was more shocked by the drastically low recommendation."

"These coaches sign nondisclosure agreements and thus couldn’t speak to me on the record, but several Glassdoor reviews say that each coach is assigned to upward of 350 active Noom users at a time."

"Like other diets out there, Noom doesn’t lead to long-term weight loss for most people who download the app."

"Despite its popularity and clever marketing, Noom is simply a calorie-counting app with a chat feature and bite-size lessons on eating and weight loss."

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/nutrition/noom-app-diet-trend/

The popular app promises weight loss without dieting. Then it proposes restrictive eating habits.

12/15/2025

"Gaining even a small amount of weight may not only damage your knees--leading to pain, stiffness and mobility issues--but also increase your odds of needing knee replacement surgery, according to research presented last month at the International Congress on Obesity.

Among study participants, a gain of just 11 pounds made total knee replacement 34 percent more likely for women and 25 percent more likely for men. The finding stems from the researchers’ review of two studies, involving some 264,000 people.

Overall, however, they reviewed data from 23 studies, focusing on the relationship between weight gain and knee osteoarthritis and finding that, as weight increased, participants' symptoms and radiographic scans of their knees indicated worsening osteoarthritis."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/11/01/weight-gain-knee-pain/

Among study participants, a gain of just 11 pounds made total knee replacement 34 percent more likely for women and 25 percent more likely for men.

12/14/2025

If you enjoy our posts and you’re interested in the psychology of lasting behavior improvement and positive habit formation, we invite you to check out our special report:

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How to Form Self-Care Habits That Truly Stick

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This special report describes how to make change go from seemingly impossible to eminently doable.

12/12/2025

In the west, there's a land.

The people there struggle with type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, chronic neuromusculoskeletal pain, anxiety, depression, and related ailments.

Despite knowing what to do and having good intentions, they struggle with their eating habits, exercise habits, and overall self-care habits.

This is the Province of Knowledge and Good Intentions.
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In the east, there's a land.

The people there are thriving.

They consistently maintain their self-care habits.

They adeptly turn knowledge and good intentions into action, habits, and results.

This is the Province of Thriving.
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Between the two lands is a 100-mile-wide gap:

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Implementation Gap

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Each and every day, millions of people try to travel from the Province of Knowledge and Good Intentions to the Province of Thriving, but most don't make it through Implementation Gap.

They get sucked up by quicksand, eaten by dragons, or swept away by tsunamis.
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Some rather benevolent figures also roam these lands:

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Mayo Clinic Certified Wellness Coach Jason Gootman and his team of wellness professionals

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Jason and his team are IMPLEMENTATION SPECIALISTS.

They help people build IMPLEMENTATION BRIDGES that enable them to successfully navigate Implementation Gap.

They provide people with accountability, guidance, and support rooted in the psychology of lasting behavior improvement and positive habit formation and help them get from the Province of Knowledge and Good Intentions to the Province of Thriving.

The end.

12/10/2025

"A beer, glass of wine or cocktail may feel so common place that you don’t even think about pouring another, but a new study suggested it may be important for everyone to be mindful of their alcohol use.

An estimated 1 in 5 deaths of people ages 20 to 49 were attributable to excessive alcohol use in the United States, according to the study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. For people ages 20 to 64, drinking-related deaths accounted for 1 in 8, the study said."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/health/drinking-deaths-us-study-wellness/index.html

Alcohol use may be common, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe. Excessive drinking is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the US, a study found. Experts share how to curb the public health hazard.

12/08/2025

"The authors of the new study sorted participants into low, moderate and high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness--a measure of how well one’s cardiovascular and respiratory systems supply oxygen to the muscles--based on their bike test results. They found that the people with high fitness levels had a 19% lower risk of head and neck cancer and a 20% lower risk of kidney cancer compared to the low-fitness group."

"Onerup said he was particularly surprised by the findings about gastrointestinal cancers: The study showed that the risk for high-fitness participants was nearly 40% lower for cancers in the esophagus, the liver, the bile ducts and the gallbladder and about 20% lower for the stomach and the colon."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/good-fitness-may-reduce-cancer-risk-rcna99853

People at high fitness levels had an especially sizable reduction in their risk of gastrointestinal cancers, the research showed.

12/08/2025

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How Do You Get Your Dope?

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“I was on sales calls, going from office to office. I stopped at Whole Foods to get some macaroons, and I wolfed them down in my car. I wasn’t even hungry. What’s wrong with me?”

12/07/2025

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Lifestyle Medicine Saves Lives

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This special report details the potency of lifestyle medicine.

12/05/2025

"As obesity and diabetes rates skyrocket, health coaches can help."

"Thankfully, in the world of preventing, managing and treating costly chronic illness, there is a relatively new arrow in the quiver: health and wellness coaching.

The well-qualified health coach is an expert in using techniques like active listening and motivational interviewing, which have been proven far more effective than dispensing advice or simply directing people to do something."

https://www.acefitness.org/about-ace/our-efforts/blog/7448/as-obesity-and-diabetes-rates-skyrocket-health-coaches-can-help/

Dr. Cedric Bryant reflects on America’s Health Rankings’ 2019 annual report and highlights health and wellness coaches as a resource to prevent, manage and treat chronic conditions.

12/04/2025

"Mainstream medical advice, quite correctly, pulls our focus onto diet, exercise, and sleep as the central pillars of optimal health."

"Whole foods reign supreme."

"Social connection and support have been shown to improve health outcomes across the board--from decreasing cardiovascular mortality to improved blood glucose control and even cancer survival rates. Unsurprisingly, social integration is associated with overall improved mental health."

https://bigthink.com/health/5-science-backed-ways-to-extend-your-healthspan/

What Greek myths, cold showers, and tomato ketchup reveal about aging well, living longer, and staying healthy.

12/01/2025

"There are so many affordable and highly nutritious foods that are easy to incorporate into your diet and keep you full."

"The fat-free and low-fat trend was pretty big in the 80s and 90s, but unfortunately people are still huge fanatics today. Fat does not make you fat, contrary to what you may have heard before. In fact, fat is crucial for organ protection, cell membrane building, hormone health, and absorbing certain nutrients like vitamins A, D, E and K."

"Fat helps you feel fuller, for longer. Opting for fat-free might end up backfiring if you’re trying to lose weight because you aren’t feeling satiated."

"Egg whites are the favorite for so called 'GymTokers' (TikTok gym rats) trying to shed some fat. They have much less fat and contain fewer calories, while keeping some solid protein content. This is why some people choose them over whole eggs, in order to be able to eat more of them.

However, when you remove the yolk, you also take out so many vitamins and minerals with it. Some also argue that cholesterol in eggs is what raises blood cholesterol and drives heart disease, but this is old news and has since been very thoroughly debunked."

"People are unique. When you start diving into 'this diet is best' territory, things get dicey. Often times these claims come with no consideration for chronic diseases people have, elimination of one or more food group, and/or really definitive language."

https://studyfinds.org/debunking-nutrition-myths/

StudyFinds' dietitian, Shyla Cadogan, breaks down 5 of the biggest nutritional myths you'll find online and why they're wrong.