Nutritional recommendations for losing weight:

• Reduce the size of your regular meal portions and reduce the amount of rice, spaghetti, bread, tortillas, meats, sweets and pastries.
• Eat less of high-fat foods such as sour cream, cream cheese, sweet cream, butter and bacon, and give preference to baked, broiled, steamed or grilled foods.
• Drink enough water to keep your body in balance.  Water activates chemical reactions within the body for desintoxication of organs and loss of all types of fat.
• Exercise frequently. In addition to burning off fat and maintaining muscle mass while losing weight, it helps to speed up your metabolism, making it easier and faster to reach your desired weight.

Ask your nutritionist to help you design an appropriate eating plan.  If you would like an appointment, call 800-911-0800.

Nutritional recommendations for digestive problems:

• Avoid foods that irritate the mucus lining of the digestive system, such as coffee, tea, chocolate, sodas, alcoholic beverages, pepper and other artificial flavorings.
• Break up your eating into 5 or 6 meals and try to stick to schedule.  Try to chew your food well, chewing slowly to crush it as much as possible; remember, your stomach doesn’t have any teeth!
• Assess your tolerance and limit, if necessary, foods that cause flatulence or bothersome gas such as beans, lentils, garbanzos, broccoli, corn, onions, cucumbers, watermelon, apples, cabbage, milk, radishes, leeks, etc.
• Avoid fried foods and very greasy foods; prepare your food by boiling, baking, roasting or broiling, and choose low-fat, skinless meat. 

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Nutritional recommendations for controlling diabetes:

• If you are overweight it is essential that you start a weight-loss plan supplemented by exercise to help stabilize your blood sugar levels.
• Increase the amount of fiber in your diet; this will help you feel fuller for a longer period of time and will also help maintain stable blood sugar levels.
• There are nutrients that help you control diabetes.  One of these is chromium, which is found in foods such as beans, broccoli and garbanzos, among other things. Ask your nutritionist about these options.
• Avoid table sugar, honey, desserts and other foods sweetened with regular sugar.  Remember to use a sugar substitute to sweeten your drinks.

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Nutritional recommendations for high levels of uric acid:

• Avoid eating salted or preserved meats, such as cold cuts (baloney, knockwurst, ham, sausage, salami and pepperoni), since in addition to having a high fat content they are high in sodium and purines.
• Eat salads and vegetables at lunch and dinner; try to use dressings such as lemon juice and salt instead of mayonnaise or creamy dressings.  Limit the amount of tomatoes, asparagus, mushrooms and spinach in your salads, since these foods contain purines.
• Eat 2-3 portions of fruit a day, since these provide vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants that help combat degenerative diseases of the nervous system, cancer, etc.  Be careful with strawberries.

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Nutritional recommendations for high blood pressure:

• Avoid the use of salt and artificial seasonings or condiments when cooking, such as soup cubes, powdered soups, prepared condiments, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, Chinese soy sauce, consommés, etc., because these have a high sodium content.
• Limit your intake of coffee and black tea; the caffeine they contain can raise your blood pressure.  Look for decaffeinated coffee or tea.
• Drink three skim milk portions a day.  The intake of three milk portions provides calcium that not only prevents osteoporosis but also helps counteract the effect of sodium in the diet, thus promoting better, more controlled blood pressure.
• Try to add fresh ingredients to your meals and avoid canned foods, most of which have high salt contents.

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Nutritional recommendations for gallstones:

• Try to maintain a healthy diet and do some type of exercise to help with gradual weight loss if you are overweight or obese.
• Reduce the amount of fat in your diet.  Start by changing the way you cook to a more healthy way – broiling, baking, grilling, parboiling, etc.  In addition, limit dressings and cream sauces, eliminate chicken skins and the visible fat on meat, and eat low-fat milk products.
• Break up your eating into 5 or 6 meals and increase your intake of fruits and vegetables, limiting those that cause you discomfort.
• Drink sufficient water. Urinating more will help clean your body of toxins and keep mineral crystals from grouping together to form stones in the gall bladder or kidneys.

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Nutritional recommendations for high cholesterol and triglycerides:

• Avoid eating aged, processed or yellow cheeses, whole milk, sweet cream, cold cuts, organ meats, butter, butter/margarine hybrids, sour cream, cream cheese, pork lard, pork rinds, and pork tamales since these have a very high fat content.
• Increase the fiber in your diet by eating fruits (3 per day) and vegetables (2 per day); these don’t have any chol esterol and provide fiber, which helps reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood.
• Reduce as much as possible your intake of any alcoholic beverages (beer, rum, whiskey, vodka, etc.) and seafood (shrimp and lobster, especially), and eat at most 2 eggs a week to keep from affecting your cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

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