My friends and extended family sometimes have issues with falls, including hips, ankles, shoulders, neck, knees and fingers. What can be the matter? Osteoporosis!
First, we need to be careful. Our intuition and our karma can help us avoid accidents and injuries.… Read the rest
Say you are 50, and you’ve got mild Crohn’s Disease, but it’s being treated, and you are otherwise in decent health. Maybe 10 pounds overweight, don’t exercise enough, too much work stress, etc. Pretty common situation in today’s world.
Now you go for your physical, and the doctor informs you that your blood pressure is a bit high.… Read the rest
Winter is coming, and although Panera, Chipotle, Legal Seafoods and Town Pizza serve the same “foods” throughout the year, we need to make adjustments to feel good and keep our health strong.
First eat fewer raw salads. If you must have salad this time of year, please blanch or press more hearty vegetables, and/or use a hot dressing.… Read the rest
Pancreatic cancer is a bummer. Here are some of the people we’ve lost that way:
Did you know that once someone is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, their one-year survival rate is:
Some ideas:
If you don’t bring a healthy lunch to work, then you might have to eat out.
Most restaurants and takeout joints pack their food with tons of salt, sugar, chemicals and animal products, which not only weaken your immunity and promote obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc.,… Read the rest
Sometimes it seems that everything is broken.
In my world, it’s the little things that get me. The kids up the street don’t show up on time to walk with my daughter (so I get to walk her, that’s good), the street sweeper is preceded by the leaf-blower who is spewing gas fumes on kids walking to school, people have not signed up for my cooking class and it may be cancelled, and now my men’s group has scheduled a competing event.… Read the rest
I hear this all the time. The truth is, we should get no more than one cold per year, and we should not have acid reflux, high cholesterol, constipation, backaches, headaches, muscle cramps, rashes, warts, fungus on our toenails, baldness, premature graying, difficult menstruation, mood swings, and depression.… Read the rest
Who do you know that “cannot eat fried food?”
In the old days, we enjoyed fried clams, onion rings, chicken, french fries, fried dough etc. with only minor issues.
Now, we get diarrhea just thinking about it. Why is that? Many reasons really, from portion size, to lack of fiber, to poor chewing.… Read the rest
Went to Zaftig’s in Framingham for the first time on Sunday evening, with my wife.
I grew up in a Jewish family, so delicatessen food appeals to me. Nowadays, however, I choose not to eat certain foods, especially in the massive quantities we see in a typical deli.… Read the rest
We learn about healthy eating from people who don’t know, or corporations who want us to buy their food or drugs. Here are five untruths:
1.… Read the rest