Projects

Rush University Medical Center
The ELM Program: Eat Well, Love Better, Move More

The ELM Program is an innovative lifestyle change program created by a multidisciplinary team of practitioners at Rush. The program was designed to help improve the health of patients aiming to prevent diabetes and heart disease. Participants of the program lost weight, improved blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduced stress in their daily lives. Healthy living is not about deprivation; it's about enjoying life.

The MIND Diet Intervention to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
The MIND Diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets. Researchers have found that the two older diets provide protection against dementia as well. The MIND Trial is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years.
First Study of Diet's Impact on Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease begins in January (2017)