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  • Portfolio Diet: Lower Your Cholesterol One Bite at a Time with Plant-Based Eating

    What if you could lower your cholesterol without remaking your entire approach to eating by simply incorporating more plants and fewer animal products in your diet? A long-term study of nearly 200,000 people interviewed every four years suggests it’s possible. 

  • Orlando Health Center for Health Improvement - Winter Garden

    A physician-led team provides health improvement consultations, education, workshops and health coaching for a variety of areas, including:

  • Why Eating a Low-Cholesterol Diet is Important for Prostate Cancer

    Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among men and more than 220,000 of them will be diagnosed with the disease this year.

  • How the MIND Diet Could Improve Brain Health

    In recent years, several studies have shown that diet may play an important role in brain function and protecting the body against certain diseases.

  • Improve Your Health by Going Nuts!

    Many people have heard that nuts can be a powerhouse of nutrition providing protein, healthy fat, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Nuts are a smart choice to incorporate into our daily meals and snacks, not to mention nuts are easy to take with us for the busy “on-the-run” type of days. Different types of nuts provide different nutritional benefits, eating a wide variety is the best option. Many healthy eating plans recommend incorporating nuts, including the Mediterranean diet.

  • CareSpot Urgent Care, in Partnership with Orlando Health, Announces New East Kissimmee Center Opening February 2026.

    KISSIMMEE, FL — February 2, 2026. CareSpot Urgent Care, in partnership with Orlando Health, is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of its newest center at 2306 East Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, FL 34744. Opening February 2, 2026, this expansion marks CareSpot’s growth to 46 urgent care centers statewide and represents the second location serving the Kissimmee community.

  • Break Your Salt Craving and Make Smart Food Choices for Optimal Blood Pressure Control

    For many of us, salt is a common food craving. Many people routinely add table salt (approximately 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride) to their food before they even taste it, in many cases adding extra salt to foods that already are loaded with sodium. However, most of the sodium in our diets comes from food bought at a grocery store or restaurant. More than 75 percent of the sodium Americans consume comes from a processed, prepackaged or restaurant food, not from the salt shaker. Processed meats, cheeses, salty snacks, pastas, breads and many other products contain sodium, even if they don’t taste salty.

  • Reducing The Sodium in Your Diet is Easier Than You Think

    As I discussed in my previous blog, “The Decline of Salt? A Look at America’s Eating Habits,” consuming too much sodium in your diet can increase the risk of developing or worsen several health issues, especially high blood pressure or hypertension. Sodium is a mineral essential for life, and needed in the right amounts for different functions in our bodies. In general however, most people will benefit from decreasing the total milligrams of sodium they consume daily. Always check with your doctor or registered dietitian nutritionist to know the amount that is right for you.

  • Dietary Health In the News

    Dietitian Lauren Popeck discusses the importance of eating right.

  • Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy: Advantages of the DIEP Flap Procedure

    The past decade has ushered in major technical advancements in autologous breast reconstruction, which is done using a patient’s own tissue. The most common techniques include the use of skin, muscle, fat, or artificial implants to reconstruct the breast. The use of abdominal skin and fat has gained in popularity, offering patients a more natural look and feel, similar to that of the natural breast. Other advantages of using a patient’s own tissue in reconstruction includes: the avoidance of artificial breast implants, the body contouring that comes with removal of excess abdominal fat, and the possibility of restoring sensation to the new breasts.