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Pop Quiz! Save Your Sole

Don’t Let Diabetes Jeopardize Your Foot Health There are many health and wellness concerns for those with diabetes, foot health is one of those that is especially important. That’s because diabetes can cause nerve damage that decreases the chance of feeling pain, heat, and cold. If a person can’t feel their feet, injuries or even…
T1D Team

Meet the Pair Leading the Charge for Type 1 Diabetes Awareness & Support in Polk County by RYAN MILEJCZAK photos by TYLER DIGIOVINE Diabetes is a disease you’re likely already familiar with to some degree. It’s a chronic condition that affects how the body turns food into energy. Type 2 diabetes — the most common…
Addition of Endocrinologist Takes Patient Care to the Next Level

by TERESA SCHIFFER Sponsored by Central Florida Health Care Central Florida Health Care is happy to welcome the newest member of the team, board certified endocrinologist Dr. Jessica Castellanos-Diaz-Diaz. As an endocrinologist, Castellanos-Diaz will be doing a lot of work with patients who are affected by diabetes or thyroid conditions. Castellanos-Diaz is excited to step…

Exercise and its Benefits

Physicians assess patient levels of exercise at least once a year with the adult well examination. All too often, the response “Doc, I’m always on my feet!” is echoed by many. The misconception that regular, daily activity is exercise, will in the long-term prove to be hazardous to health. Exercise is defined as “planned, structured,…
Make a Resolution for a Healthy Mouth

This New Year’s, we want to switch it up a bit and challenge all of our patients to think outside of the box when making their commitment to change for the better. It’s not uncommon for someone to commit to losing weight, resolving to quit smoking, or exercise more. But at our dental office in…
Heart of Florida Adds Plastic Surgeon to Physician Group

Dr. Tutu Cheng Talks About the Rewards of Helping Patients Renew their Confidence Dr. Tutu Cheng was inspired to become a doctor when she was young, possibly after seeing her grandmother, Ma, sick. “That’s one of my earliest memories,” she says. Now a plastic surgeon, Dr. Cheng relocated from Philadelphia to become the first plastic…