Cancer, Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Health Song, Menopause, Music and Medicine, Music Composer
You wouldn’t think the World Series and colonoscopy had anything to do with each other. But for me it did. When my doctor suggested I have a colonoscopy, I said I’d do it when the Red Sox won the World Series. At the time, they hadn’t done it in 86 years and I thought...
Diet & Nutrition, Estrogens, General Health, healthy eating, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, perimenopause, Stroke
Every year about 715,000 Americans have heart attack. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and for the first time, more women are dying of heart disease than men. Having a heart attack can have a very...
Diet & Nutrition, Exercise, General Health, Menopause
Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic and often disabling disease. What makes it so challenging for people is that it attacks the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. For some people, the symptoms can be mild, and...
Diabetes, Diet & Nutrition, General Health, healthy eating, Nutrition, Weight Control
It seems there is less and less time for home cooked meals so there is lots of eating on the run as work days compress lengthen and free time seems to disappear in our 24/7 world. And we all know that the holiday season we’ve just passed through is notorious...
Diabetes, Diet & Nutrition, General Health, healthy eating, Memory, Menopause, Nutrition, Weight Control
We know too much sugar is bad for our waistline. Now a new study from Mayo Clinic and reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has shown that the people over 70 who ate the most carbohydrates relative to protein and fat approached being 4 times greater...
Diabetes, Diet & Nutrition, Health Song, healthy eating
It Halloween and soon the streets will be filled with small ghosts and goblins looking for a candy delight at their neighbors doors. But it’s also a huge sugar load that can last for weeks if the bountiful Trick or Treat haul is large enough. A little candy is...
