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What to Avoid Eating and Doing When You’re Pregnant
Before you order your favorite Greek pita wrap or freshen up your cat’s litter box, you might want to pause and reconsider. It’s well-known that pregnant women need to avoid alcohol and sushi, but what is not as widely understood is why those items, and others, are off-limits. Knowing what you should avoid can help you prevent serious infections and make healthy, lower-risk choices.
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Orlando Health helps patients understand medical bills
Understanding how to decode and interpret medical bills is akin to learning a new language — or several at once.
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Biohacks for Savvy Girls: Making Self-Care a Daily Deal
#SelfCareSunday hacks the weekend so you can recharge for the week ahead. But why save self-care only for Sunday? Dr. Meredith Watson, an OBGYN with Orlando Health Physician Associates, thinks nurturing body and soul should be a daily deal.
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Concerned About Bone Health? Here Are Essential Nutrients To Keep You Going Strong
Healthy bones and dairy go together like, well, cookies and milk. But if you’re over the age of about 12, that simple equation is unlikely to sustain your skeletal health. Happily, a familiar range of foods — along with vitamins, minerals and weight-bearing exercise — can combine to keep your bones strong.
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5 Ways You Can Support a Loved One Going Through Cancer Treatment
When a friend or family member is diagnosed with cancer, you want to help, but may not know how. The last thing you want to is to say or do the wrong thing. As a result, you may end up avoiding the person. Even if you’re not helping with day-to-day care, or if you’re not in the same state as the person, there are many ways you can provide support.
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Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute and the American Heart Association Transform Kids into All-Star Cooks
Move over, Master Chef Junior. A slew of new kid cooks are in town. But this time, they’re cooking with a purpose.
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Why Our Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval Means Better Care for You
About 7 million Americans have undergone total hip and knee replacement.
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New Test Measures and Tracks Sperm Count From the Comfort of Your Own Home
Too often when it comes to fertility, we focus on women’s reproductive health — not men’s. An estimated 11 million U.S. couples try to conceive yearly with approximately 15% experiencing infertility. Half of these cases are related to the male. Yes, you heard that right – half of all causes of infertility have some male related cause.
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Does swimming cause ear infections?
This blog post was originally published in June 2014
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Love Your Heart: Eat Breakfast
If you’re trying to lose weight and think skipping breakfast is a good start, think again. Breakfast is often considered the most important meal for good reason, and when you skip it, either to reduce calories or because you’re in a rush, you may actually end up gaining more weight.
