New Ask the Doctor page at Healthwise Exercise, producers of Functional Fitness for PBS.

April 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Healthwise Exercise, producers of Functional Fitness with WDSC TV for PBS TV, offering real life fitness solutions for real life challenges proudly announces an informative addition to their website, Ask The Doctor.  

Reviewed by doctors, Functional Fitness is hosted by occupational therapy professional, Suzanne Andrews and is currently in the closed captioning stage for syndication on the PBS network of stations.

Functional Fitness’s Ask the Doctor section is currently featuring Functional Fitness Nutrition Doctor, Dr. Roy Vartabedian who is a specialist in Chronic Disease Prevention and holds a Doctor of Public Health degree from Loma Linda University, and Master of Public Health degrees in Health Education and Nutrition.

He has worked in the field of health promotion and disease prevention for over 25 years, with patients, managing programs, consulting, and speaking throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
His landmark publication, Nutripoints, a New York Times Best-Seller, has been used in a total of 13 countries in 10 languages worldwide.

Dr. Vartabedian worked as Executive Director of Wellness Programs at the world-renowned Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas. There he worked with Dr. Kenneth Cooper for 6 years to develop the residential lifestyle improvement program on the 30-acre Cooper Aerobics Center facility.
Earlier in his career, he taught Preventive Care in the Family Practice Residency at Florida Hospital in Orlando, where he trained Family Practice physicians how to incorporate Patient Education and Preventive Medicine into their practices, and developed the award-winning Preventive Care Learning Center for patients.

The public is also invited to submit questions to Functional Fitness’s Women’s Health Expert, Dr. Mache Seibel, MD and Dr. Nathan Wei, MD, arthritis expert.

Nutrition questions may be answered by emailing info@healthwiseexercise.com with Functional Fitness Nutrition Question in the subject line.

Women’s Health questions may be answered with Functional Fitness Women’s Health Question and arthritis questions with Functional Fitness Arthritis question in the subject line.

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Healthwise Exercise, producers of doctor reviewed and recommended Functional Fitness approved for nationwide broadcast on the PBS network of stations offers real life fitness solutions for real life challenges. Ask the Doctor page can be viewed at
http://www.healthwiseexercise.com/ask_doctor.php