CARDIOLOGY, PRIMARY CARE AND NUTRITION

All Posts Tagged: lifestyle diseases

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Podcast: Plant based is Best!

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Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  It is heart month!  There is no better way to reverse and prevent heart disease than eating a plant based diet.  Reduce cholesterol, inflammation, and blood pressure all why decreasing your risk for other lifestyle diseases.  Why does it take a heart attack or stroke to get someones attention?  […]
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Podcast: This is the Time to Take Back Your Health

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Welcome and Thank you for listening.  COVID-19 is still on my mind.  It is the first time we have had to confront a significant mortality risk from an infectious disease.  Our ability to fight infection rests with our current state of health.  Diabetes and hypertension as well as other lifestyle diseases are significant risk factors […]
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Half Way Through the Year… Time to Check In!

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A Thursday Thought from Dietitian Addie We check our email, we check how many likes or followers we have on social media, but how often do we truly check in on our health? Typically, we pay attention to our health when something goes wrong or at the first of the year when the hot topic […]
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Blogpost: How TV can Reinforce Misconceptions

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Pharmaceutical advertisements are aimed to sell wellness through medications. They are also aimed at diverting the causation of the illnesses, and taking away any power of the individual to influence their diseases. The overweight kind man wants to spend more time with his grandchildren so he takes a diabetic medication or cholesterol medications to control […]
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Podcast: Sarasota Vegefest and More

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Welcome! and thank you for listening.  Addie Majnaric RDN and I attended the Sarasota Vegefest last weekend. We had an information tent, and I was on the physician’s speaker panel and 2 of our members were on the success story panel.  I discuss our day and the panel discussions on this podcast.  Who goes to […]
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Podcast: Asheville Marathon Recap and How Running is Like Life.

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Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  The Asheville Marathon Backyard to Vineyard Challenge is a half marathon on Saturday and a full Marathon on Sunday on the Biltmore estate grounds.  It is a great tour of the property with a lot of the race taking place on packed trails. I recount the adventure on this […]
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Blogpost: A Celebration of Health

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I had the honor of kicking off the SW Florida Vegfest this past Sunday with a talk on extending health span and life span through plant based nutrition. It was a beautiful sunny day in Florida with temperatures reaching the mid eighties. There were about 20,000 people visiting Riverside Park in Bonita springs which was […]
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Blogpost: Maybe the Chief’s would have won had they had better nutrition.

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Kansus City Chiefs quaterback Patrick Mahomes admitted to local reporters that he puts ketchup on his steak. He also told media he puts ketchup on his macaroni-and-cheese. He tweets he wants a Whataburger franchise to come to Kansus City. Ketchup companies were offering free ketchup to celebrate at local establishments for the Chief’s playoff victory. […]
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Blogpost: Get Ready for the Life Hacks

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Happy New Year, and welcome to the month of quick fixes for all of your problems. If you subscribe to all of the advertisements for quick fixes this week, you can be cured by Valentines day to begin indulging again for 2019. We are all looking for the magic bullet to turn back the clock […]
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