Timothy S. Harlan, M.D., aswell accepted as Dr. Gourmet, today appear the accession of Spanish-language advice about bistro advantageous while on Coumadin (warfarin) and managing one's vitamin K intake.
Coumadin® (generic name: warfarin) is a decree medication acclimated primarily to anticipate claret clots. Each year, bags of humans with altitude such as stroke, pulmonary or abysmal attitude thrombosis, affection attacks or artificial affection valves are put on Coumadin for periods abiding from six months to life. This medication is a lot of able if its levels in the bloodstream abide adequately constant, acute approved claret tests and abutting ecology for those demography the drug. However, warfarin's capability is calmly afflicted by the aggregate of Vitamin K in the body: artlessly bistro too abundant of a aliment absolute top levels of Vitamin K can decidedly abate its effectiveness.
This is the claiming faced by all Coumadin users: a normal, assorted diet can aftereffect in broadly capricious levels of Coumadin (warfarin) in the bloodstream. For decades doctors accept been administration the affair of the aggregate of Vitamin K in a patient's diet by cogent their patients to abstain all foods absolute Vitamin K. Their patients are accustomed a account of foods to avoid, such as broccoli, spinach, cabbages and greens, but little added guidance, abrogation their patients abashed about what they can and can't eat.
Previously the invaluable advice about diet and Coumadin use - accessible at no allegation on DrGourmet.com - has alone been accessible in English. With the adaptation of this capital advice into Spanish, these assets are now even added advantageous to the fastest-growing boyhood citizenry in the United States: built-in Spanish speakers.
Find these assets at DrGourmet.com/warfarin.
About Dr. Gourmet
Timothy S. Harlan, M.D. is a practicing internist, Medical Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. Raised in the restaurant business, he is aswell an able chef who endemic his aboriginal restaurant at the age of twenty-two. He is the columnist of cookbooks as able-bodied as accommodating apprenticeship materials, and is the architect of Emmy-winning television programming that helps admirers bigger accept how to eat healthy.
DrGourmet.com is durably ashore in evidence-based anesthetic and its diets and recipes are based on the Mediterranean Diet, the alone diet clinically accurate to advice anticipate affection disease. It includes hundreds of recipes for low sodium diets, lactose bent and for patients who use warfarin (Coumadin®), as able-bodied as those with gastroesophageal abatement ache (GERD) and gluten sensitivity.
For added information: acquaintance Timothy S. Harlan, M.D., at (504) 931-2929, drgourmet@drgourmet.com
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Timothy S. Harlan, M.D.
Dr. Gourmet
New Orleans, LA
504.400.7573
drgourmet@drgourmet.com http://www.drgourmet.com
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