UBC Okanagan well being specialists will clarify easy methods to embrace easy train and eating regimen methods to age properly and forestall persistent illnesses.
what: The Southern Medical Program presents MEDTalks: Well being methods to optimize ageing and high quality of life.
who: UBC Scientific Teacher and Household Doctor Dr. Janet Evans and UBC Professor Dr. Jonathan Little.
when: Wednesday, December 7, 7 to eight p.m.
Venues: UBC Scientific Educational Campus in Kelowna Basic Hospital, 2312 Pandosy Avenue. Digital choices are additionally out there.
As we get older, adjustments in our physique’s metabolism influence how we course of the meals we eat. Our metabolic well being influences every thing from train efficiency to weight fluctuations to the danger of creating Sort 2 diabetes.
Adopting a wholesome life-style and eating regimen can vastly influence metabolic well being and improve vitality. Nevertheless, with the overwhelming quantity of knowledge prepared on the click on of a mouse, the problem is usually figuring out what’s related and easy methods to even get began.
Be taught from UBC Okanagan well being specialists on easy methods to embrace easy train and eating regimen methods into your every day life to age properly and forestall persistent illnesses.
Dr. Janet Evans is the Medical Director of CGB Medical and a household doctor in Kelowna. She can be a Scientific Teacher with the UBC School of Drugs and an Affiliate Clinician with the UBC Heart for Persistent Illness Prevention and Administration. In her follow, she repeatedly seems to be for methods to enhance well being, in addition to forestall and reverse illness in her sufferers. In partnership with a registered nurse, her interdisciplinary crew developed a primary-care-based dietary program to handle persistent illnesses with out remedy. Collectively, they work with group companions to enhance bodily functioning and enhance well being span (how properly one lives) versus life span (how lengthy does one stay).
Dr. Jonathan Little is a Professor with UBC Okanagan’s School of Well being and Social Improvement and an Investigator with the UBC Heart for Persistent Illness Prevention and Administration. After pursuing his grasp’s diploma on the College of Saskatchewan targeted on sports activities vitamin, Dr. Little accomplished his doctorate at McMaster College specializing in muscle metabolic diversifications to train in wholesome people and people with Sort 2 diabetes.
Dr. Little’s analysis at UBC Okanagan focuses on optimizing eating regimen and train methods to stop, deal with and reverse persistent illness with a concentrate on Sort 2 diabetes.
MEDTalks is a well being training lecture sequence exploring present and rising developments in drugs. Hosted by the Southern Medical Program at UBC Okanagan, researchers and well being professionals share their insights and experience on easy methods to improve your total well being.
The occasion is free and open to the general public with in-person and digital choices out there.
To register, or discover out extra, go to: smp.med.ubc.ca/community-engagement/medtalks