Answers to FAQs About Plant-Based Eating
Medical 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…
Med Students Learn Food As Medicine
Eating healthy foods can prevent chronic diseases from diabetes to cancer, and UCF medical students are learning how to guide their patients to eat for…
UCF Nutrition Educator Helps Improve Health at KNIGHTS Clinic
Patients 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…
Embrace Health – Celebrate Lifestyle Medicine Week
The 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…
Med Students Teach Health Literacy
As Lake Nona High School eleventh grader Juliana Guerrero studied the nutrition facts on the labels of some of her favorite snacks, she was shocked…
Dr. Pasarica Named Associate Editor Of Nature’s Obesity Journal
Her 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….
Teaching Docs to Tackle Obesity
Obesity 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…
Ensuring Healthy Knights
Understanding 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…
Knights Helping Knights – Med Students Coach Football Team On Healthy Eats
UCF Knights linebacker Shaquem Griffin says recent improvements to his diet have helped him cut 5 percent of his body fat. Fellow linebacker Mark Rucker…
Making Lifestyle Medicine A Classroom Staple
Recent studies show that lifestyle medicine – managing nutrition, stress, and physical activity – is an effective first-line treatment for multiple diseases like diabetes and…