Are You Getting Necessary Nutrients?
As National Nutrition Month, March is the perfect opportunity to evaluate eating habits to make sure you are getting all the necessary nutrients to stay healthy. But what do nutrition and nutrients really mean? How do you know if you are eating the right amount of nutrients? What nutrients should ...
4 Workout Ideas You Can Easily Do at Home
Now that January has come to an end, it is easy to lose momentum in the dreary February months and to stay committed to a New Year’s resolution – especially when that resolution involves going to the gym. Nobody wants to leave the comfort of their homes and face a ...
5 Ways to Prevent Heart Disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. As February is American Heart Month, we’re providing you with some tools and tips to help protect your heart ...
A Heart Healthy Dinner for Your Sweetheart
Valentine’s Day is all about hearts. Stores are filled with heart shaped cards and candy, bears holding hearts that say ‘I Love You’, and heart covered clothing. Not even pizza is immune from the being turned into a heart on Valentine’s Day. With all this joy and celebration around the ...
New Year, New Healthy You
[avatar user=”doller” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”http://www.acppps.org/who-we-are/denisse-oller”]By: Denisse Oller[/avatar] In many cultures, the Holiday Season – revolves around the three Fs: fun, family and food. Whether it’s coquito or fried dumplings, holiday treats are delicious and pay homage to our cultures, but they are not always healthy. That’s why the holidays have ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: A bright look at those “Winter Blues”
[avatar user=”dponieman” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”http://www.acppps.org/who-we-are/diego-a-ponieman/”]By: Diego Ponieman, M.D. M.P.H.[/avatar] Have you noticed you’re more anxious or moody in the winter months? Do you find you have lower energy, a bigger appetite, or tend to pack on a couple of extra pounds around this time of year? As we just recently ...
Clean Hands for a Healthy Body
[avatar user=”dponieman” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”http://www.acppps.org/who-we-are/diego-a-ponieman/”]By: Diego Ponieman, M.D. M.P.H.[/avatar] Hand washing – a simple, everyday task – is perhaps one of the most overlooked ways we can protect ourselves from getting sick. Startlingly, a recent Michigan State University study found a shocking 95 percent of people do not wash their ...
Is Chamomile Tea a Real Tea?
By Carlos Amaya-Cubides “May I have a chamomile tea?” I overheard Ms. Maria, a Latino woman, request from her waiter one day recently. I was at the next table, having lunch with an associate of Asian descent. He apparently overheard her request too because he bent over next to my ...
Thanksgiving
[avatar user=”doller” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”http://www.acppps.org/who-we-are/denisse-oller”]By: Denisse Oller[/avatar] Dear friends, November is synonymous of Thanksgiving, a cornerstone Holiday for all Americans. It is a day in which together with our dearest ones and in the warmth of our dinner table, we give thanks. Every Thanksgiving at home is a family feast ...
Diabetes Dialogue: Risk Factors for Type 1, 2
[avatar user=”dponieman” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”http://www.acppps.org/who-we-are/diego-a-ponieman/”]By: Diego Ponieman, M.D. M.P.H.[/avatar] Diabetes can be a complicated disease. It is not just the well-known Type 1 and Type 2 that I am talking about. There is also MODY, 3c or pancreatogenic just to name a few; these are types that we are still ...
