A study was completed from 2005 to 2007 that has been analyzed and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine this week. It pertained ...
Move for Health
Today's post regards physical activity. In order to achieve maximum health and reduce the chance of being diagnosed with a chronic dise...
Swimming with the Pathogens
Let us take a break from food and exercise, obesity, over medication and sun damage... let's go to the BEACH. I love the ocean. It is ca...
Let the Comparison Begin
I am actually torn about tonight's post. Yesterday I received an article in the mail from a dear friend in Maine. I did not read it cl...
Quitting Smoking and Weight Gain
Today's post isn't only about quitting smoking and weight gain, but also about how people (and doctors are people too) think to mana...
Odds and Ends
Odds and Ends for the week's end: Seen and heard : At the store today, a couple was reading out loud the ingredients of a dog chew. You ...
Do You Have Cankles?
Well, I cannot believe that I am doing this post, but alas I am. Cankles are ankles that lack definition. They are firstly caused by obesity...
What Works Best?
I have already blogged a time or two about the concept of Comparative Effectiveness Research, which is abbreviated in the press as CER. Th...
Teaching Moments
We have a new employee where I work and she is only now getting to know me. I say this because what she said was so funny being said to ME....
The Three Faces of Prevention
With regard to health promotion and prevention of disease there are basically three tiers. Health care debate often develops around these t...
All Sun is Harmful?
This is an important post. My title is a little play on words associated with tobacco smoke. We, as health care professionals, are very clea...
all produce is not equal
For this post I want to share with you the calorie count of some fruits and vegetables. The information was obtained from the USDA nutrient...
A New Flu Vaccine
There has been news recently regarding the 2009 swine flu (oops, that is Influenza A H1N1) and how we can best prepare for the second wave o...
Lose the Juice
Today's post is a video PSA, if you receive the daily blog in your email, you will need to click on the yourhealtheducator link at the b...
Sugary Drinks
The chart to the right can be seen much better at it's source, the Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source website. It i...
Heart Disease odds and ends
I may have said this before, but I get weekly updates from Web MD's Medscape. I will just quote their own description to explain. "...
Is the treatment the problem?
In March I wrote about gastroesophageal reflux disease because someone I care about has it. Since then I am more likely to take note of arti...
Alzheimer's Disease Risk
I am going to posit that the two most dreaded diseases are any type of cancer and dementia, esp. Alzheimer's type. Most of the news that...
the high cost of eating well
Every blog post does not have to be a research paper and so tonight I will just express opinion and grave concern about the state of disease...
Keeping Your Fruit Safe
A recent discussion with a friend prompted a bit of investigation and this blog post. We were talking about food safety and picnicking, when...
Per Chance To Dream
With great interest, pride (I was born not far from Troy) and excitement I learned of a research study being conducted out of Rensselaer Pol...
The Great Calorie Debate
oops I forgot to post this last night... sorry.... As I reported when I returned from my Cooper Institute training, the most effective means...
Are YOU at risk for VTE?
True to the nature of this blog, I am reporting beyond the headlines. Only yesterday a study on Venous Thromboembolism was reported in the p...
How to Stop Eating Too Much
We made a joke at work today. It had to do with something I learned along the way in my quest for a healthy ME weight. I want to share what ...