Category: Health
9 Tips for Making Healthy Eating Choices a Lifestyle Keto. Weight Watchers. Whole30. Zone. Adkins. Carbs are great. Carbs are poison. Eat as many whole grains as you can. Grains are dangerous. Eat low fat. Fat is where it’s at. We can receive any of these messages (and more!) about diet on any given day […]
We all live one day at a time, and we start each day not knowing what kind of adventures the next 24 hours have in store. How should we structure the day that lies ahead? Aside from the schedules that may be put upon us, does it matter what order in which we do things […]
Tired of politics? Fear not! What you’re about to read is not a politically divisive article. Actually, I mean to tickle your funny bone and get you thinking a bit about lifestyles and habits we’ve largely adopted as a culture. But, these ideas just might in fact be the thing that will inspire our nation […]
The reality is that life in this world is vulnerable and risky. Think about it. We are inadvertently exposed to infections as we interact with others in this world. We suffer accidental injury whether by tripping, falling from a ladder or being struck by a drunk driver. More insidiously, our cells mutate within us awakening […]
In the hit movie “The Sixth Sense,” 9-year-old Cole is gifted with the ability to “see dead people,” who do not know they are dead. As he deals with the terror these insights invoke, he is ostracized for his oddities. He ultimately discovers that this gift enables him to free these lost souls from their aimless […]
“You… look… MAH-ve-lous!” Billy Crystal would claim in his parody of Fernando Lamas years ago on Saturday Night Live. People began saying it everywhere! I sometimes quip with my patients similarly with “it’s more important to look good than to feel good.” This tongue-in-cheek commentary typically follows a discussion with a woman about the woes of fashionable, but uncomfortable, […]
Every summer we hear the tragic news that another athlete or outdoor worker has suddenly died while training or working in the heat and humidity of the late August summer. This strikes fear in the hearts of parents, coaches, athletes and laborers alike. But how does this happen? How can it be anticipated or prevented? […]
My work as a physician affords me the great privilege of being invited into the most intimate emotional spaces of people’s lives. Often, that invitation is inadvertently extended to me in the course of a conversation. Something honest is stirred and in direct betrayal of the will’s intent, the eyes shift downward, tears well up […]
A recent statistic was released claiming that 20 percent of children and 40 percent of adults in the US can now be classified as obese. “Oh, please,” you say, “Not another article on the obesity epidemic.” Before you’re tempted to stop reading, this is NOT another how-to article about diet. It’s an article about being — a plea to pause and […]