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Caramelized Peach Bariatric Recipe

2/25/2021

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Are you not sure what dessert to have after your bariatric surgery? Fruit is a great dessert option as it offers fiber, antioxidants and phytonutrients. However let’s be real, sometimes we need to spice it up. Cinnamon is a tasty spice that makes any food a treat. Greek yogurt on the other hand will help to increase your protein intake, which will help you to meet your post operative needs. Getting enough protein after surgery is important to maintain muscle mass, which will assist with weight loss- using fat for oxidation (fuel). This recipe serves two, however it can be stored in the fridge to be consumed as a treat the next day. 

Recipe: Caramelized Peach Bariatric Recipe 
Recipe Creator: Ava Reichard, RDN
Stage: Regular

Ingredients:
1 peach 
1 tsp olive oil
¼ cup non-fat greek yogurt 
1 tablespoon  chopped pecans
Dash of cinnamon

Instructions:
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 350F

  2. Cut peach in half, removing the pit. Place peach on parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes
  3. Remove and brush with 1 tsp olive oil
  4. Place peach back in the oven, baking for 10 additional minutes
  5. Remove peach from the oven, and top each peach half with 1/4 c greek yogurt, 1.5 tsp  chopped pecans + sprinkle with cinnamon.


Nutrition information- Serving size: _1/2 peach__, Calories: _90_, Carbohydrates: _10g _ , Fiber: __2g__, Protein: _6g___, Total Fat: __3g__.

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Plant based baking subtitutes

2/16/2021

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Plant Based Substitutes

Recently in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, there was a study that compared the vegan diet to the Mediterranean diet. The results might surprise you. When following a low fat, plant based diet for 16 weeks, study participants achieved much higher reductions in fat mass and visceral fat, as well as total and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels compared to those following the Mediterranean diet recommendations. However, the mediterranean diet had ties to greater reductions in blood pressure (1). It is important to keep in mind that there are healthy fats, such as mono and polyunsaturated fats that should be included in our diets in moderation- with studies in the past supporting their correlation with improved HDL cholesterol particularly (2). Below are some plant based substitutes that can be made in place of animal based substitutes in baking.

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​Citations:


  1. Neal D. Barnard, Jihad Alwarith, Emilie Rembert, Liz Brandon, Minh Nguyen, Andrea Goergen, Taylor Horne, Gabriel F. do Nascimento, Kundanika Lakkadi, Andrea Tura, Richard Holubkov & Hana Kahleova (2021) A Mediterranean Diet and Low-Fat Vegan Diet to Improve Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Randomized, Cross-over Trial, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/07315724.2020.1869625

    2. Weisenburger, Jillian. “Heart-Healthy Fats — It’s the Type—Not the Amount—ThatMatters.” Https://Www.Todaysdietitian.Com/Newarchives/090313p14.Shtml, TodaysDietitian,1Sept.2013,www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/090313p14.shtml.
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    Ava is a Registered Dietitian with a BS in Nutritional Science from Penn State University. She completed her postgraduate dietetic internship at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center where she had a critical care concentration. She started her RD career working at a level one trauma center providing Medical Nutrition Therapy to patients in the Greater New York City area. She now resides in South Florida as her hospital's full time outpatient dietitian, overseeing outpatient nutrition for  cardiometabolic, bariatric, and hospital medical nutrition therapy.

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