Dr. Hans Diehl is a Lifestyle Medicine genius
Is Western medicine making progress when it comes to tackling heart disease and diabetes or is the current system contributing to the chronic disease epidemic? Dr. Hans Diehl was chosen as “One of America’s 20 Super-Heroes of the Health Movement,” and on this episode of the Eat Real to Heal podcast, Dr. Diehl takes you through decades of research and explains why the current health care system isn't the answer to you chronic health issues. He then spells out exactly what you need to do - starting with your next bite of food - to prevent, treat and ultimately reverse heart disease, Type II diabetes, and a whole host of other lifestyle chronic diseases.
“Medical schools teach to the test, so they want to make sure that the students pass the national board examination, then they are full fledged physicians and so if its not a question that appears in the national board, medical schools sometimes dont seem to think that they have the time to teach nutrition as an example.”
Dr. Hans Diehl directs the Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda and lectures at the College of Medicine at the University of Illinoisat Rockford and at the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA. Offering more than 25 years of leadership in the emerging field of Lifestyle Medicine his pioneering efforts as an epidemiologically trained lifestyle interventionist with the Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP) have shown how simple lifestyle changes can prevent, arrest, and facilitate the reversal of many of our largely lifestyle related diseases. With more than 50,000 graduates, the results of the Randomized Clinical CHIP Trial have been published in 17 peer reviewed medical journals. His books, Health Power, and Dynamic Health, and Dynamic Living book & workbook (co-authored with Aileen Ludington), have over two million copies in 17 languages in circulation. As an invited guest, he recently addressed, for the second year in a row, the World Congress on Weight Management in Chicago. He earned his doctorate in Health Science and an MPH in Public Health Nutrition from Loma Linda University. He has been married to Dr. Lily Pan for 40 years. Together they have two children: Byron, an orthodontist and Carmen, a clinical psychologist.