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Nutrition On A Budget: Eating Healthy With Local, Seasonal Produce

Center for Family Medicine

If the food is out of budget, families will struggle to get a healthy supply of vitamins and minerals. This increases the risk of chronic disease or vitamin deficiencies in children and adults. Choosing local and seasonal produce can help families meet simple nutritional needs.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. A pill organizer, having family. It treats diabetes, it prevents progression of chronic kidney disease.