Healing gardens is so excited to welcome Dr Anneke Arellano!  She will be joining the Healing Gardens team this month and is available to handle urgent care needs and new patients.  Dr. Arellano received her medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska  and completed residency at Scottsdale Healthcare Family Practice in Arizona.  She is board certified in Family Medicine and has been practicing for 15 years.  In 2008 Dr. Arellano spent a year in New Zealand as a Family Medicine physician at Darfield Medical Center.

Upon her return to the United states, Dr. Arellano worked in Urgent Care in Arizona and Colorado until her recent move to Fort Collins, where she continued to work in Family Medicine.  Her special interests are Preventive Care, Urgent Care and Women’s Health.  She enjoys riding her electric bicycle, photographing birds and spending time in nature.

Call 970-472-6789 to schedule an appointment.

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If you are managing T2 Diabetes, this article offers some valuable information on small nutrition tweaks that can help your blood sugar levels!

“In a new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition, scientists compared animal proteins to plant proteins and evaluated their impact on type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk.

While high-protein diets, high-animal protein diets and a diet of processed red meats have been linked to increased diabetes risk in many studies, this was the first time an animal-based protein diet was compared to a plant-based protein diet.

“Using the numbers from this study, if you were to replace just 5 grams of animal protein with 5 grams of a plant-based protein, you would reduce your risk of T2D by 18%.

Plant-based proteins were also associated with lower fasting glucose levels during the study. (1)”  Read more here…