Health 2.0

New Grand Rounds - Food is Medicine

Dr. John La Puma hosts the Grand Rounds this week. Check it out. And thanks for pointing to my post, Dr. John.

Revolution Health invites Grand Rounds readers

As you can see, I haven't posted to Health 2.0 in a while. I've been working my heart out at Revolution Health, where along with Steve Case and others, we've been striving to change health care. We’re giving people the tools, information and support they need to actively manage and take control of their health and wellness.

We do this by attempting to answer (and solve) seemingly simple questions – Why do I have to fill out the same forms every time I go to a new doctor? Why are my medical records impossible to get a hold of? Why is it easier to find a restaurant than a doctor?

Note on food and nutrition: Given that this week's Grand Rounds focuses on food and nutrition, I'll mention that we're putting robust online tools in the hands of people who want to track their weight, BMI, eating habits, etc to reach their diet and weight goals, and empowering people to easily share and support each other along their way. These tools are just one example of dozens of things we're doing in the food and nutrition area.

Our first step in trying to meet this lofty goal is to launch a web site. Over time, it will have some of the best technologies, communities and resources assembled in one place. We’re in the testing phase right now and although the site is not fully public yet, we're inviting all readers of the Grand Rounds to try it in advance. We need your contributions and feedback to make this site truly great.

Here are a few things you can do:

• Register with Revolution Health by going to this invitation URL: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=ANkBrPNXrI.  (It should be simple to do, but if you are having problems of any kind, call us at 800-990-2892 or e-mail customercare@revolutionhealth.com).

• Rate your doctors. Rate the tools. Rate the stories.

• Try out some of our cool tools

• Launch a Revolution Health blog, or publish your health story

• Post a health question or respond to others

• Complete your profile so that we can further refine our personalization capabilities

Feel free to post this invitation link http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=ANkBrPNXrI on your blog if you'd like to invite your entire audience, or of course feel free to email your friends with the invite-link, and let them know they can in turn pass it on. Of course feel free to speak your mind on your blog and elsewhere about our efforts (keeping in mind we're still in our infancy).

Thanks again for your help!

.... it's a day after I posted the above, and this post made it into the Grand Rounds! This is my first time in, and it's very cool to make the cut. Reading the Grand Rounds, here are a few highlights from others that made it in:

Dr. John La Puma on "Food is medicine". Excerpt:

"Read how Pulitzer Prize winning Wall Street Journal health reporter (and Dr. John LDL cholesterol program patient) Tom Burton lowered LDL cholesterol with food alone, avoiding statins, specifically Crestor and Lipitor."

Suprisingly Health Foods. Dark chocolate is #1on this list. #5 is another surprising notable. Guess red wine doesn't make the cut :)

Drinking Olive Oil That's right, drinking olive oil, like a glass for breakfast, may be healthy. YUM (or maybe yikes). Whatever works.

Something fishy for your thoughts- how eating fish may help cure dementia.

Magic mushroom management-  teenager makes a psychedelic quiche and gets nursed back to sobriety. Quote:

... trying to guess-timate vomitus trajectories is a tricky and risky business and best delegated to new graduate nurses.

Flu = spew

The 60 pound pledge (there's actually a lot more to this particular post than the pledge to lose sixty pounds. Worth the read, and quite a surgery-visual as well)

Save the sharks (btw, this blog has some of the best pics I've seen on a blog anywhere). Snippet:

"Sharks are at the apex of the food chain and thus are not meant to be eaten. They are there for the balance. Humans are also at the apex of the food chain and do we condone eating each other?"

Tags: grand rounds, health, food, nutrition, Revolution Health, wellness, health care