Lara AL Dandachi

Lara Al-Dandachi is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Certified Diabetes Educator who provides care to patients in UCLA Health’s Gonda Diabetes Center in Westwood and Santa Monica, and coordinates the UCLA Gonda Diabetes Prevention Program, which was awarded full CDC recognition. She has 16 years of experience providing medical nutrition therapy as a RDN, and holds two board certifications in diabetes education: CDE and an advanced diabetes management certification, BC-ADM. She is fluent in Arabic and French.

Lara AL Dandachi

What about we add Purple to our Salad ?

Should we call it, Lara’s Purple Salad ?? I should admit it ,  it was delicious, the combination of ingredients was savory!! • 1-2 c

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Lara’s Simple Chicken Breast Salad

What’s for dinner? Just a colorful salad with whatever vegetables I found in our fridge. Added some left over chicken Kebab (chicken taouk), aka grilled

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Pomegranate Spinach Salad

What about some sweetness in our Salads? To get our beautiful colors ??. Try Lara’s Salmon pomegranate spinach Salad super high in omega-3 Fatty Acids.

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Lara’s Power Protein Healing Soup

Try this superpowerful immune booster soup to help alleviate your cold symptoms. As I was coming down with a cold last night, i had to

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Lara’s Colorful Greek Salad.

My type of Greek Salad. Try to choose different kind of colorful vegetables, in order to get a variety of phytochemicals for a better gut