Baltimore Cardiologists - Woodholme Cardiovascular Associates
With locations throughout the Greater Baltimore, Maryland area, Woodholme Cardiovascular Associates, and our board-certified cardiologists provide comprehensive cardiovascular services.
Did you know that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women? Many people believe that heart disease affects more men than women, but almost half a million women die each year from the disease. On February 8th, 2018 you can help raise awareness by participating in National Wear Red Day.
In 2003, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute started National Wear Red Day to draw attention to heart disease and women’s health. Now in its fifteenth year, National Wear Red Day and the attention created by the campaign have resulted in significant improvements in women’s heart health.
All of us at Woodholme Cardiovascular Associates encourage you to support these efforts and wear red on February 8th, 2018! You can help even more by participating in the American Heart Association® and Go Red For Women®FUNraise For National Wear Red Day® fund raising event.
How much added sugar do you consume? The typical American consumes enough added sugars to contribute to health problems, including fatty liver, insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Added sugars also provide calories without any nutritional benefit. These empty-calorie foods can contribute to overweight and obesity. Often people think that if they’re not overweight, they can consume as much sugar as they want. However, consuming too much added sugar leads to health problems, even in people at a healthy weight.
There’s an important difference between sugar that occurs naturally in fruit, plain milk, and unsweetened yogurt, and added sugars. Naturally-occurring sugar does not act the same way in our body as added sugars and it does not cause health problems.
The American Heart Association recommends limiting added sugars to no more than 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons) for women, and no more than 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons) for men. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPlate recommend that no more than 10% of daily calories come from added sugars, which is roughly 200 calories per day. This may sound like a lot until you start reading food labels:
Use these 7 strategies to reduce added sugar in your food choices:
Look for these sources of added sugars in foods:
By Lynn Grieger RDN, CDE, CPT, CWC
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Woodholme encourages a healthy diet and proper nutrition as one aspect of maintaining heart health. The nutrition information and recipes are presented for informational purposes only and are not intended take the place of one-on-one advice from your doctor. Please follow your personal physician’s recommendations if any recipes, ingredients, or advice found here conflict with what your doctor has told you.
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Woodholme is proud of our excellent team of physicians. We are particularly proud that our cardiologists have been among the Best Cardiologists in Baltimore, Maryland, for five consecutive years.
Baltimore Magazine polls thousands of physicians in the region each year asking them which doctors are the best of the best in more than 100 specialties for their much-anticipated Baltimore Top Doctors award. The winners, who are selected by their peers, represent fewer than 5 percent of the doctors licensed to practice in the Baltimore region.
Dr. Benjamin DuBois received the Baltimore Top Doc award in 2013 and 2014. Dr. DuBois has been in practice since 1985. He graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in 1975 in St Louis and was Phi Beta Kappa. He completed medical school at the State University of New York Downstate in Brooklyn, NY in 1979, residency at the University of Pittsburgh, in 1982 and Cardiology fellowship at University of Maryland in 1985 when he joined Warren Israel and Sydney Scherlis.
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, General Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology and recertified in Interventional Cardiology in 2009.
Dr. Charles Cummings won the Baltimore Top Doc award in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Additionally, Dr. Cummings was selected by Consumer Checkbook’s Checkbook Health survey of over 375,000 physicians, nationwide, who were asked, “Which doctors would you want to care for a loved one?”
Dr. Cummings received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Long Island University, Southampton College. He completed medical school in 1982 at CETEC in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Cummings did his residency in internal medicine at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in 1986. In 1988 he completed a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Heart Institute, and in 1989 he completed a specialty year in interventional cardiology, also at the Philadelphia Heart Institute.
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