A Doctor’s View on Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cable news, your email inbox, the county health department, social media, and even the loud-speaker at your grocery store are…
7 Categories of Health Spending that will make you Healthier Tomorrow
Two hosts on a podcast I heard recently were talking about a high-tech state-of-the-art health evaluation. It included a full-body…
10 Healthy Weight Loss Tips
Healthy weight loss is a big deal. Losing weight – or trying to – is big business. Researchers tell us…
3 Keys to Deal With Stress Better
The research on stress has continued to expand exponentially in the years since Hans Selye first described what he called…
How to Prevent Weight Gain After Forty
Love handles around the middle? Afraid to step on the scales? Putting on extra pounds is not just unpleasant; it’s…
8 Things To Do When You’re Tired
If you’re tired because you are behind on your sleep, that may be the very best thing to do.
But not so fast. Sometimes sleep may work against you.
Often it’s not a medical problem that’s causing fatigue. There are many lifestyle factors in our modern world that just wear you out!
So what can you do when you’re tired?
Number One New Year’s Resolution: Losing Weight
Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions this year? If so, there’s a pretty good chance that losing weight is at the top of your list.
If weight is YOUR challenge, the costs are much more personal. You pay in ways such as decreased energy, self-esteem, or perhaps a sense of discrimination. I see women in my office regularly who break down in tears over their struggle with weight.
But now it’s a new year, and you’ve resolved to do something about it. And before taking any other action, I want you to think FIRST about what’s eating you!
7 Things I Would Say To You As My Patient
You’re tired, you don’t feel well, and you want some help. You come to see me in my office, hoping I will have an answer.
How I wish I could fulfill your hopes! I wish I could fix you. That would make your life, and mine, so much easier. Most of the time it’s a matter of you and me figuring things out together. Here are a few things I’d like to tell you:
7 Benefits of Healthy Living Beyond Being Healthy
For many people, lessening the risk of disease or living longer is a rather boring, un-spectacular motivation for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Understanding more of the “other” benefits of healthy living can help us find more of the motivation necessary to actually make those healthy lifestyle choices. Here are some of those benefits.
What Your Lifestyle Can – and Can’t – Accomplish
Going to extremes is only human, but it’s not healthy. Many people have a difficult time finding a healthy balance in lifestyle choices.
On one extreme are those who throw caution to the wind. On the other extreme are those who wouldn’t eat a piece of bacon or a candy bar if they were starving. And then there are those who jump between those two extremes – with no better results.
