Howard M. Shapiro Medical Associates

05/06/2025

We're now offering Galeri multi-cancer early detection screening. Moms are often so busy taking care of everyone else that they neglect their own health. This Mother's Day, let's encourage the important
women in our lives to prioritize their well-being.

Learn more about how the Galleri test can help close the gap on cancers without recommended screening for women: link in bio for more information.

Important Safety Information: http://bit.ly/33m8pFa

The Galleri test should be used in addition to healthcare provider recommended screening tests. The Galleri test does not detect a signal for all cancers and not all cancers can be detected in the blood. False positive and false negative results do occur.

10/24/2024

An oldie but a goodie. Here's a recipe for a delicious pumpkin pie pudding with no added sugar and no fat. Pumpkin is a great source of fiber and beta-carotene.

For more recipes, check out Dr. Shapiro's Eat & Beat Diabetes with Picture Perfect Weight Loss.

10/17/2024

What's in a muffin?
This Fiber One muffin contains just about everything the health-conscious muffin lover looks for. Just read the package: Whole grains! Wild blueberries and oats! 28% of the Daily Value of Fiber! All at 1/4 fewer calories than the leading muffin! So what could be bad about making this muffin the core of your breakfast or an afternoon snack?

How about the 16 grams of sugar in every single muffin? That's 4 teaspoons of sugar, just what you want to avoid if you're trying to maintain a healthy weight and fight diabetes. Especially if you eat two or three.

(Photo from Eat & Beat Diabetes with Picture Perfect Weight Loss)

10/10/2024

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Nothing is as warm and homey as an apple concoction. This traditional tarte Tatin, however, starts with apples cooked in butter, so it's sky high in fat (450 cals & 19 gms fat). The Warm Apple Compote captures the same comforting apple flavor accompanied by brown sugar and nutmeg tapped by the cool sweetness of frozen yogurt, and at half the calories and fat. See recipe below.

Ingredients:
1 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. packed brown sugar
1/8 of a teaspoon ground nutmeg
4 crisp apples such as Fuji, Braeburn, or Gala, peeled, cored, and cut into 3/8"- thick slices
1 cup low-fat vanilla frozen yogurt or soy alternative
1/4 cup chopped toasted pecans

Melt the butter in a large Skillet over medium heat. Add the brown sugar and nutmeg and stir until smooth. Add the apples, cover, and cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 minutes, or until the apples are tender.
Spoon the apples into dessert bowls. Top with the frozen yogurt and pecans.

Makes 4 servings. 230 cals and 9 grams of fat per serving.

(Recipe from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss Cookbook)

09/11/2024

09/11/2024

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Compared to most desserts, a chocolate souffle seems light as air, hardly there at all. Yet it packs a lot of calories and fat. For an equally festive treat, try strawberries dipped in chocolate. They're very nutritious and tasty, and so rich and substantial you're satisfied with just a few.

08/21/2024

The meal on the bottom shows the basic principles of Picture-Perfect Weight Loss in action. The result is more food, healthier food, a feast for the eyes and the palate, and substantially fewer calories than the meal on the left.

(photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)

08/07/2024

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Like appetizers? The smoked salmon choice gives you a far bigger portion, plus diverse tastes and a real health hit. Salmon is an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for heart health, the immune system, & disease fighting.

The salmon's good fat contrasts favorably with the pate & cheese's high concentrations of bad saturated fat. It means the pate and cheese square offer a little bit of food at a high cost of the least healthy kind of calories.

(photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)

08/06/2024

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Just because you're weight-conscious that's no reason to give up the lush taste of a blueberry dessert. But unless you're a karate champ or rugby player, think about getting that lushness from one of the 13 stem glasses pictured on the right. Calorically, it trumps a piece of pie 12 times over.

(Photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)

08/01/2024

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Finger foods lend themselves to after-school snacking, but some choices can carry a high cost in calories. Your kids will have more to munch on--longer--with the snack on the right. And they'll take in some fruit as well!

(Photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)

07/31/2024

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A whole box of these delicious Belgian waffles is the caloric equivalent of not quite one whole bagel. The lesson is clear: Consider light pancakes or waffles as a breakfast choice. They constitute a real calorie bargain and--topped with fruit--make a special breakfast treat.

(Photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)

07/30/2024

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Want to have your muffin and eat it too? You could breakfast on English Muffins 4 days in a row for the cost of a single corn muffin breakfast. Stick to the English muffins for a real bargain in breads.

(Photo from Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss 30 Day Plan)