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Laurie Anderson, MSN, RNP, CDOE

Joined: 02/05/2010

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Laurie Anderson is a certified family nurse practitioner and is the Director of Wellness for Fitness4Diabetics, LLC, a web based fitness and nutrition coaching program for individuals with all types of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Fit4D coaches are nurses, registered dietitians, and exercise specialists who utilize motivational interviewing, webinars, and telehealth methods to assist individuals to meet their goals. Laurie works with individuals with diabetes and related conditions in emergency medicine, an endocrinology specialty practice, and in a primary care setting with Native Americans; she has practical experience with exercise prescription in the cardiac and pulmonary rehab setting. Her area of special interest is motivational interviewing for health behavior change and she has presented on this topic for other health professionals.

She has been affiliated with WebMD for many years, previously hosting the heart disease and devices message board and more recently affiliated with the diabetes boards. "It is my pleasure to once again be associated with WebMD and it's evidence-based resources for patient education. I believe in the combination of expert advice and individual to individual support to empower health behavior change, and the WebMD community is powerful example of those resources in action."

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Hi, I agree with the posters who suggested that you ask about...

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Hi, I went to this web site and read a bit (I didn't go through...

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Hi,

I went to this web site and read a bit (I didn't go through all the pages, nor did I look at the 6 week program you are referring to in your post), however, it concerns me when anyone writes an article that supports the sale of a particular product that they are profiting from. So as an example, the doctor writes that we are all so "stressed" by our lives that we don't eat well and don't get all the nutrients that we need for optimum health. He supports this with some research articles about nutritional supplements and lack of adequate nutrition in the foods we consume. There is certainly a lot of information to support his ideas in the scientific and lay literature, so I don't question that he is correct about the diets of many people. That said, there is also information available to all of us about how to improve the nutritional quality of our meals without paying too much for that information and without taking a lot of (potentially expensive) supplements. In fact there is information available to suggest that we don't absorb vital nutrients when we take them in pill form in the same way that we do by eating proper foods. So it is my belief that we are better off improving our diets by eating better, not by eating foods in certain combinations or by taking supplements. I recommend that my patients eat real food and skip on the processed stuff as much as possible. This means fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, fish/chicken/beef and dairy if they tolerate it. It means shopping the outside isles in the grocery store, the middle of the shelves on the inner isles for things like cereal, grains, and canned veggies and fruit. It means shopping local at farmer's markets when you can, because you will eat seasonally and local foods in season that haven't traveled a million miles to get to you have a greater nutritional value.

The program that you are looking at appears to have some links to great recipies and to bloggers who are supportive of others desire to eat in a healthier manner. There is nothing wrong with those things and if you find support and guidance from these sources that helps you to improve your health, then that's great! I think that it's wonderful that you are keeping your health care provider "in the loop" of your plans and that you are making an effort to keep yourself safe in this process. This is a very thoughtful way to approach this plan and I wish you well in your efforts. Please let us know how it goes! LaurieView Thread

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