Behavioral researchers at MicroMass Communications have identified a metabolic mindset that could be the key to helping physicians, nurses and other healthcare educators successfully influence patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol to adopt healthier lifestyle changes such as losing weight, eating better, getting more exercise, and giving up cigarettes. Jessica ...

Behavioral researchers at MicroMass Communications have identified a metabolic mindset�� that could be the key to helping physicians, nurses and other healthcare educators successfully influence patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol to adopt healthier lifestyle changes such as losing weight, eating better, getting more exercise, and giving up cigarettes. �

How you would you rate your health status right now? Now, think of the rest of your family - how healthy are they?

It is hard keeping up a regular exercise schedule when you're rising before dawn and returning late in the evening. Commuting can be more stressful and grueling than our actual jobs. Some of us spend the time equivalent of a part-time job just getting to and from the office every day.

The sugary-sweet scent of morning pastries pervades the air among the boisterous morning patrons in the tiny, single room of Scurlocks Donut Shop and Eatery near the corner of South Congress and Pearl streets.