Diets

Diets: Diets can be defined as the sum of food consumed by any living organism. The word diet is the use of a specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management. Food provides people with the necessary energy and nutrients to be healthy. By eating a variety of healthy foods, including good quality vegetables, fruits, whole-grain products and lean meats, the body can replenish itself with the essential proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals to function effectively. Having a healthy diet is one of the best things you can do to prevent and control various health problems i.e. types of cancers, heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Alex Jimenez offers nutritional examples, along with health coaching, to describe the importance of a balanced nutrition throughout this series of articles. Dr. Jimenez emphasizes how a proper diet combined with physical activity can help individuals reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce their risk of developing chronic diseases like heart disease, and ultimately promote overall health and wellness.

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Strawberry & Blueberry Inflammation Fighting Smoothie

Inflammation Fighting Smoothie

Dark leafy greens as well as certain fruits are a great way to help the body naturally fight off inflammation. We’ve put together a simple smoothie that can be consumed every morning to fuel your body and help reduce inflammation.

¾ cup orange juice
½ cup ice
½ spinach
1 cup strawberries, sliced
½ cup blueberries
2 tbsp flax seed

Additionally, it is great to add powder pre and probiotics to smoothies. This ensures we are feeding the microbiome the healthy bacteria it needs to flourish.

For additional protein, add in 1 scoop protein powder or 5oz of greek yogurt

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Ketosis and Microbiota: Healthy Symbiosis

  The link between microbiota and different factors such as exercise, genetics, disease, body composition, and nutritional intake is undeniable. However, this means that the…

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Sulforaphane’s Protection against CVD

Oxidative stress is a critical factor in cardiometabolic conditions. As previously demonstrated by the PREDIMED study, high-risk CVD patients have low antioxidant enzymatic activity and…

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Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic disease

Patients’ dietary patterns are important triggers or modulators when it comes to cardiometabolic disease risk assessment. It has been stated that cardiovascular disease is the…

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Dyslipidemia: The Proactive Therapy

The “pill for every ill” therapeutic approach is not enough to ensure its health improvement. In fact, ACC/AHA clinical guidelines are more interested in the…

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Cardiometabolic disease
Cardiometabolic Risk: How to Manage it

Coronavirus definitely took us all by surprise. With an uncontrollable infection rate, the medical world seemed to forget about the chronic and metabolic diseases. Yes,…

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2020’s Topics: Intermittent Fasting.

The term intermittent fasting is used in a variety of eating settings. In fact, intermittent fasting can be used when describing a prolonged time in…

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Diet and Cardiometabolic Disease

Dietary changes, physical activity, and overall lifestyle modification have become cornerstone interventions to improve cardiometabolic disease outcomes. Despite the outstanding diffusion of treatment guidelines to…

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Testing for Wheat Sensitivities

Gluten related diseases are a global phenomenon. The numbers are outstanding; 10% of the global population reports having wheat sensitivity, and 1% is diagnosed with…

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Gluten-Associated Conditions

Gluten-associated diseases have been on the rise in recent years. There are several types of symptoms that patients notice when gluten is consumed. Nevertheless, the…

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Adverse Food Reactions

We’ve said it before, we all have reactions to food and food disturbances. Adverse food reactions had become one of the most common doctor’s office…

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irritable bowel syndrome

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Food Allergy

Allergies have been around for what it seems like forever. Most of our patients suffer from environmental or seasonal allergy. Most of the patients with…

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