Bianco Primary Healthcare Blog
Sustainable Healthy Eating Strategies That Aren’t Diets
You do not have to diet for the rest of your life to look the way you want to look and feel the way you want to feel. Yep, you read that right. However, I’m acknowledging you can’t eat plates full of processed carbohydrates and drink your teas and diet cokes to your...
What You Need To Know About Inflammation
Inflammation is a hot topic today and seems to show up everywhere when discussing health. We are bombarded by advertisements that tell us to eat certain foods or take certain supplements to “reduce inflammation”, and all this information can be overwhelming. In this...
Certified Nutrition Specialist and Fitness Trainer Joins Bianco Primary Care
In the effort to provide the best health care to its patients, Bianco Primary care has recently brought on board Kathryn Terry, a Certified Nutrition Specialist and Personal Trainer, to be the Bianco Primary Care Nutrition and Fitness Director. Proper nutrition and...
Am I “High Risk” For A Sever Case of COVID-19?
Those individuals that are at higher risk for worsened symptoms, complications or death are those that are age greater than 60 years, those with obesity, high inflammatory markers (CRP or ESR), heart disease, lung disease (including smokers), diabetes and high blood...
How Deadly is COVID-19 And How To Avoid Getting It
The good news here is that the virus is not very deadly from an epidemiological standpoint. The overall death rate (including asymptomatic patients) is certainly less than 1%. That means if you get this virus you have greater than 99% chance of surviving!! I will take...
Do Masks Work To Stop The Spread of COVID-19?
How effective masks are against COVID-19? This question seems to be a major topic these days with a lot of “experts” touting the effectiveness of masks and most major stores now requiring their use. The answer to me is “it depends”. The “evidence” in favor of...
What are IgG antibodies? How does this Covid-19 antibody test work?
When our bodies see a foreign invader (coronavirus in this case), our immune system mounts an acute/immediate reaction through IgM antibodies to eradicate the problem. Once the infection is gone the IgM antibodies are no longer produced and do not linger in the blood....