Meet the Experts - Health Channel

Meet the Experts

Meet the Experts

In partnership with Baptist Health South Florida, the Health Channel, features medical specialists who discuss important health issues and answer live audience questions. Meet some of our contributors:

Our experts in Nutrition

Yazmany Rodriguez, RD

Registered Dietician with Homestead Hospital

Michelle Routhenstein

Cardiology Dietitian and Preventive Heart Health Nutritionist Michelle Routhenstein is a Preventive Cardiology Nutritionist, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Cardiology Dietitian. Michelle’s goal is to inspire people to take an active role in their health by raising knowledge of heart disease and its risks. She has more than a decade of experience working […]

Thi Squire

Are you consuming high quality food? Thi Squire, Community Garden Project Manager of the Grow2Heal Garden at Homestead Hospital, explains how you can determine the quality of your food by paying attention to the growing technique, freshness, and additives, for example. Portion size is a great way to start cutting down on sugar. Thi Squire, […]

Dominique Symonette

Registered Dietician with Miami Cancer Institute

Lucette Talamas

Vegetarian, lacto-ovo, lacto vegetarian and vegan are some of the types of plant-based diets. Lucette Talamas, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, says when you eliminate eggs and dairy from your diet, which is what lacto and ovo mean, you have the vegan diet. Talamas points out your diet is up to your preferences […]

Drew Thomason

Are you a fan of mustard? Drew Thomason, Executive Chef at Homestead Hospital, shows how to prepare a healthy and delicious recipe with mustard, garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and olive oil. You can avoid high sodium content in your food while cooking. Drew Thomason, Executive Chef at Homestead Hospital, gives you some healthy tips […]

Stacey Whitelocke

Clinical Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida

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