Resources for a Healthy Lifestyle
Here you will find a collection of my articles and favourite talks, websites, podcasts and books on the topics of lifestyle medicine, health coaching and mindfulness. I hope you will find them beneficial and inspiring!
Latest Articles on the Blog
Could You Have A Fatty Liver?
I’m sure that most of you reading this article will have heard of the term “fatty liver”. You may immediately relate it to an excessive consumption of alcohol and you wouldn’t be wrong. But there is another type of fatty liver that is becoming increasingly more common even in children.
What Facebook can teach us about creating new habits that last!
Learn about three essential elements that can help you create new habits that stick from Behaviour Scientist, BJ Fogg PhD, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.
Take the 50 Food Challenge!
How many colours do you eat every week? And why does it matter? Discover why food diversity is crucial for both our physical and mental health and how you can bring more awareness to the variety and colour on your plate by taking the “50 Food Challenge.”
Find more articles about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle on my blog.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine
Dean Ornish, MD.
@TEDxSF. (7 Billion Well)
This is a must-watch talk, providing you with the evidence that comprehensive lifestyle changes may reverse coronary heart disease, diabetes and prostate cancer without drugs or surgery.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
The Exam Room
(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
The Doctor of the Future: Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine.
Mark Rowe
TEDxUCD
Why Lifestyle is the BEST Medicine.
Meagan L. Grega.
TedxLeighRiver
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness.
Robert Waldinger.
Websites
Podcasts
Books
Michael Greger, MD. How not to Die. 2017
Michael Greger, MD. How not to Diet. 2021
Dean Ornish, MD. Anne Ornish. Undo It!:
How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases. 2019.
Health Coaching
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Health coaches guide journey to well-being
Books
BJ Fogg. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything. 2021
Mindfulness
The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion
Kristin Neff
TEDxCentennialParkWomen
How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains.
Richard J. Davidson.
TEDxSanFrancisco
Books
Kristin Neff, PhD. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. 2011.
Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life. 2016.