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

Center for Family Medicine

This increases the risk of chronic disease or vitamin deficiencies in children and adults. Even when there are opportunities to purchase fresh food, transportation can be limited. Individuals who eat solely nutrient-dense foods are less likely to have chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers.

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

GeriPal

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. It treats diabetes, it prevents progression of chronic kidney disease. Where are we with low salt diet?

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

GeriPal

If you’re in the outpatient setting, Tim, and you’re seeing somebody in clinic and you’re worried that they’re heading towards a path where, you know, their chronic diseases are getting worse, we may have to make some decisions. What do I do? I think it’s.