Nutrition and Food Service | VA Orlando Health Care

Services provided by our outstanding team include but are not limited to:

  • Weight Management
  • Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders
  • Integrative and Functional Nutrition
  • Diabetes Management
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum Nutrition
  • Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Support
  • Cardiovascular and Heart Health
  • Oncology Nutrition

Several of our dietitians have advanced practice certifications in specialty nutrition. These specialty providers have at least 2000 hours of expertise practice and successfully completed board examination. They work diligently to guarantee our departments nutritional practice continues to be innovative and evidence-based. These advanced certifications include:

Board Certified Specialist in Oncology Nutrition (CSO): Nutrition is essential to ensure Veterans with cancer remain strong and healthy. A specialist in oncology nutrition can help you create approachable strategies to maintain excellent nutrition throughout your cancer treatment.

Board Certified Specialist in Diabetes Care and Education (CDCES): The Orlando VAMC serves around 40,000 Veterans with diabetes. We have developed and

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Study suggests adding this easily available health food could impact how you age

While aging is inevitable but age-related diseases do not have to be. And as far as aging goes, diet has a huge role to play when it comes to long term impact on health. In a new study, researchers who reviewed 20 years of diet history and 30 years of physical and clinical measurements have found participants who ate walnuts early on in life showed a greater likelihood for being more physically active, having a higher quality diet, and experiencing a better heart disease risk profile as they aged into middle adulthood.

What makes walnuts so special?

Walnuts are the only tree nut that is an excellent source of plant-based omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (2.5 grams/28g), which research shows may play a role in heart health, brain health and healthy aging, as per the report .

Walnuts are considered so nutritious that just one serving of walnuts (28g), or about a

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Cincinnati Bengals DE Sam Hubbard Foundation Gives Grant to UC Health to Address Food Insecurity

The Sam Hubbard Foundation has teamed up with UC Health and The Freestore Foodbank to support more individuals and families in the community who are suffering from food insecurity.

The Foundation has pledged and initial gift of $10,000 to UC Health’s Food is Medicine program as well as recurring annual support to help sustain and expand the program to serve even more in need.

UC Health’s Food is Medicine program has benefitted more than 2,000 people in Greater Cincinnati this year. In partnership with The Freestore Foodbank, the program supports individuals and families affected by food insecurity by providing free food, hygiene items and produce vouchers during visits to their primary care providers.

“As a native Cincinnatian and a Cincinnati Bengal, I have a deep love for my family, football and this community. I started the Sam Hubbard Foundation to serve and give back to a city that has done

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The #RawCarrotSalad TikTok Trend That ‘Balances Your Hormones’

Everybody loves a health food trend, from milk alternatives to a plant-based diet. The raw food movement goes way back, with historians suggesting that the first recorded mention of the diet goes back to the 1800s when Swiss-born Maximillian Oskar Bircher-Benner recommended eating raw apples to help with jaundice.

One of the latest food trends is the raw carrot salad, with the corresponding hashtag #rawcarrotsalad being viewed 8.1 million times on TikTok.

TikTok user Paige Nicole26, currently a student on a Holistic Hormone Specialty Program, explains in her video with over half a million views: “This [salad] has become a staple in my diet for balancing the excess estrogen that can peak at different times in my cycle.”

Paige Wilhite @_paige.nicole_

Speaking to Newsweek, Paige tells us: “The fibers in raw carrots help promote a healthy gut and intestinal function by how they are digested, which in turn, can

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Nutritionist Lovneet Batra Lists Healthy Food Habits For Good Health

Healthy Eating Habits: Adding these habits to your routine might help improve your lifestyle as well as your health.


Healthy Lifestyle: Nutritionist Lovneet Batra Lists Healthy Food Habits For Good Health

Living Healthy: Nutritionist Lovneet encourages consuming a diet rich in protein

In her recent Instagram reel, nutritionist Lovneet Batra discusses healthy food habits that can potentially help improve our well-being and promote good health. Adding these habits to your routine might help improve your lifestyle as well as health.

Through her Instagram handle @nutrition.by.lovneet, Nutritionist Batra elaborates:

“Its NATIONAL NUTRITION WEEK

Fulfilling your nutritional requirements also requires cultivating health food habits. Here are some healthy habits you can try incorporating in your routine:

1. Nutrient density

Even though calories are important, your primary concern should be nutrients, that’s what your body needs to thrive. So it’s important to make the most out of the foods we do eat. One way is by choosing more nutrient-dense foods, which provide more

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