Change your diet, Change your health
How food can maintain our health or cause disease
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Although most of us know that obesity can cause diabetes and heart disease, most of us are unaware that obesity is also related to various types of cancer. The American Institute for Cancer Research reported convincing evidence that the greater the amount of body fat, the greater the cases colorectal, esophageal, endometrial, pancreas, kidney, and breast cancer. (WCRF/AICR. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research. 2007). Possible mechanisms by which obesity can contribute to the development of cancer include: increased circulating levels of hormones, which may increase risk for hormone-driven cancers, decreased physical activity that in turn can result in longer exposures to ingested toxins and chronic low-level inflammation. (Visscher TL, Seidell JC. The public health impact of obesity. Annual review of public health 22355-75 2001).
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"The doctor of the future will prescribe no medicine, but will want to educate their patients in the care of the body, proper diet, and disease prevention." ~ Thomas A. Edison. What was old, is very new again. Food is medicine, and the foods we eat can either help us maintain our health, or be a principal cause of illness. The epidemics of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, digestive disorders, cancers and even Alzheimers disease, have been associated with the increase consumption of nutrition poor, highly processed, inexpensive and easily acquired fast foods and snacks that taste great, but that are loaded with fats and sugars. Food production has become industrialized and utilizes an assortment of chemical additives. Chemical toxins given the name of obesogens are being identified as another contributor to the increased levels of obesity, as well as to obesity related diseases. The increased amounts of food we eat, the lower nutritional quality of the food production and a decrease in levels of physical activity has changed society and has made the United States a country where a third to forty percent of the children are overweight or obese;
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Dr. Jorge Bordenave is a cardiologist in private and managed care practice in South Florida for over 15 years, who enjoys staying current and learning. An accomplished physician he recently completed his 3rd Fellowship, at the world renowned University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine in Tucson where he learned from pioneers in the field of complimentary medicine. Added to his already evidence based background, came the scientifically Throughout his years in practitce he has seen a change and experienced a change in the way medicine is practiced as well as a drastic change in the types of illnesses we treat and patinets to be continued