By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Raise your hand if you want to eat healthy. Healthy eating isn’t just good for cinching your waistline; it’s great for overall health. From glowing skin, to heart health, to maintaining healthy teeth and bones; eating foods packed with certain nutrients can also protect your immune system and fight infections. It can boost your libido and decrease that lousy (LDL) cholesterol and boost your good (HDL) cholesterol. Healthy eating…
Read More...Healthy Eating: A Mediterranean Fish Dish That’s Quick and Simple
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Last week, I returned from Italy, Florence (Firenze) to be exact, a magical city in Tuscany, only to to realize how much I miss the delicious Mediterranean food. The little Trattorias (a little informal restaurant) can be found along the cobblestone streets through the narrow alleyways. Actually, the alleyways are very much active streets. You quickly realize that when you’re almost knocked over from speeding Vespa scooters or tiny…
Read More...Mediterranean Diet Can Help Improve Sexual Health in Men
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Mediterranean Diet is a healthful diet for men with and without metabolic syndrome, and with or without sexual dysfunction. The Mediterranean diet has been in the headlines recently because a new study shows that the diet is beneficial to help avoid strokes. Recognized for its ability to help improve heart health, the Mediterranean Diet also can help kick-start a flagging libido in men with metabolic syndrome. I asked John…
Read More...What Do You Eat for That?
By John La Puma, MD, FACP (John La Puma, MD ChefMD was a guest on the Health in 30 Radio Show on April 25th! Click here to listen)! Culinary medicine answers the question” “What do you eat for that?” As the art of cooking blended with the science of medicine, culinary medicine aims to prevent and control common health conditions with what you eat, with restaurant quality flavor, meals and recipes. I’m trained as both…
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