Movement as Medicine

Yumlish: Diabetes and Multicultural Nutrition

Is exercise what makes us lose weight? How can we balance it with our eating habits so we can be healthy? Being healthy also means losing weight, and if necessary, having good mental health. In this episode, Dr. Tinka Barnes teaches us how we can use exercise to improve our health properly even during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can use movement as medicine.

Dr. Barnes is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who relishes working in the underserved community. She is passionate about educating her patients on how to live a healthier life through nutrition and movement as medicine.

"I don't think that we as a population focus so much on our physical activity can really help us from a mental health standpoint. And so movement as medicine is really a phrase to say you can use these activities that you're doing to improve your cardiovascular fitness, but you can also use these activities to improve your mental health."

In this episode, you will learn about:

Dr. Barnes trajectory in her career

The importance of exercise

The link between mental health and exercise

How to use movement as medicine

COVID-19: exercise at home – tools

Setting goals according to how much exercise you can do

Diet in diabetes and the link between illness, diet, and activity

Keynotes:

[01:24] What led Tinka to become a Family Medicine physician and how did this focus on food

[03:01] Movement as medicine

[05:49] How Tinka uses movement as medicine in her career

[06:42] Tools we can use at home to exercise

[08:52] Specific exercise guides for each patient

[10:04] Set goals for your exercise

[11:41] Diet for Dr. Barnes’ diabetes patients

[13:46] Functional medicine

[14:56] Illness, diet, and activity

[17:20] Exercise ideas – dancing

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