Answers to FAQs About Plant-Based Eating
06/08/2023Medical experts gathered at lunch Wednesday to answer FAQs about the health benefits of switching to a plant-based diet as part Lake Nona’s Lifestyle Medicine...
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Med Students Learn Food As Medicine
03/06/2023Eating healthy foods can prevent chronic diseases from diabetes to cancer, and UCF medical students are learning how to guide their patients to eat for...
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UCF Nutrition Educator Helps Improve Health at KNIGHTS Clinic
01/13/2023Patients at a free College of Medicine clinic for Orlando’s disadvantaged are getting nutritional counseling, thanks to the expertise of registered dietitian/nutritionist Steven Burroughs, a...
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Embrace Health – Celebrate Lifestyle Medicine Week
08/15/2022The Lake Nona community is celebrating Lifestyle Medicine Week August 22-27 because what you do, day in and day out, matters for your health. Many...
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Med Students Teach Health Literacy
10/28/2019As Lake Nona High School eleventh grader Juliana Guerrero studied the nutrition facts on the labels of some of her favorite snacks, she was shocked...
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Dr. Pasarica Named Associate Editor Of Nature’s Obesity Journal
11/20/2017Her dedication to healthy eating has earned her the moniker of “obesity warrior” and now a role editing one of the world’s top nutrition journals....
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Teaching Docs to Tackle Obesity
05/01/2017Obesity affects more than one-third of U.S. adults, contributing chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and even some cancers. But when it comes...
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Ensuring Healthy Knights
12/09/2016Understanding they need to stay healthy to keep their patient well, more than 100 UCF M.D. students attended the Healthy Knights Expo recently to learn...
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Knights Helping Knights – Med Students Coach Football Team On Healthy Eats
07/22/2016UCF Knights linebacker Shaquem Griffin says recent improvements to his diet have helped him cut 5 percent of his body fat. Fellow linebacker Mark Rucker...
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Making Lifestyle Medicine A Classroom Staple
06/27/2016Recent studies show that lifestyle medicine – managing nutrition, stress, and physical activity – is an effective first-line treatment for multiple diseases like diabetes and...
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