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Listen to a recorded presentation from a Kaiser Permanente expert on topics that can help you lose and maintain weight.
We've asked a few of our Kaiser Permanente clinicians to share their expertise on maintaining a healthy weight and lifestyle. If you missed their live presentations, you can click on the link below to watch and listen to a recording. You may need to adjust the volume on your computer in order to hear the recording. See below for information about each speaker.
| Name | Time | Description |
| Healthy Pleasures | 55 minutes | Many people think that to promote health they have to undertake strict weight loss diets, adopt punishing exercise programs, avoid salt, shun cholesterol, and follow all sorts of difficult, pleasure-denying regimens. Fortunately, scientific evidence now suggests that for most people doing what is pleasurable actually pays off in both immediate enjoyment and better health. The healthiest, most robust people seem to indulge in many small daily pleasures and cultivate a positive, optimistic view of their lives. |
| Living SMART | 55 minutes | Meet the dynamic Health Coach KP members rave about. Making changes to your health habits is not easy. In fact, most people know what to do to be healthy but they don’t know how to do it. You need to know more than what to do. And you need more than will power or motivation to do it. Dr. Pruitt will discuss the science behind human behavior change and provide some guidance and tools to help you understand how to make healthy habits stick. |
| Produce to the People | | COMING SOON |
Healthy Pleasures
About Dr. Sobel: David S. Sobel, M.D., M.P.H., is Medical Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion, The Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Permanente Northern California. He practices adult primary care medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices in San Jose. He has coauthored seven books including Healthy Pleasures, The Healing Brain, and The Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook.
Living SMART
About Dr. Pruitt: Sheri D. Pruitt, Ph.D. is a speaker, writer, and consultant in behavioral medicine and health psychology. She is Director of Behavioral Science Integration for The Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento, California, and shares behavioral science expertise with local and national newspapers, radio, and television stations. Dr. Pruitt is the coach behind the successful KP HealthCoach - Healthy Eating program (kp.org/healthcoach).
Produce to the People
About Dr. Maring: Preston Maring, MD is the Associate Physician-in-Chief at the Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center in Oakland. He is responsible for new services planning and development for Oakland and Richmond’s 270,000 health plan members as well as members from around the Northern California region. He maintains a part-time clinical practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and recently published a cookbook that has garnered national recognition.
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