10 Stress Tips To Reduce Stress

General Health, Stress, Weight Control

The holidays are wonderful; and wonderfully stressful. Families get together and reconnect, and sometimes things get a bit stressful. With all the food and stress around, it’s no small wonder that many people have a tendency to eat….and eat. And often it’s...

Santa's 5 Healthy Changes To Fit Down Chimneys

Diabetes, General Health, Menopause, Weight Control

Santa’s recent inablility to fit down the chimney has resulted in him trading in his perennial request for cookies by the chimney to wanting a small fruit and veggie platter. His decision came just hours after the red clad, ruby cheeked Christmas icon received...

7 Fast Food Facts to Get Healthy Fast Food

Diabetes, General Health, Menopause, Weight Control

Health fast food doesn’t exactly go together, even if the menu suggests you’re making a “healthy” choice. For instance, a McDonald’s Fruit & Maple Oatmeal contains more sugar than a Snickers bar. That’s why it’s so...

Overweight men with diabetes who lose weight gain erections and libido

Diabetes, Weight Control

Overweight men often have health problems. But now overweight men with type 2 diabetes have another reason to lose weight – it improves erectile dysfunction. A study from Singapore published over the past few months in the Journal of Sexual Medicine showed that losing...

Healthy Halloween: How to Turn Trick or Treat into Healthy Eats to Fight Obesity

Weight Control

It’s Halloween, and according to the US Census Bureau, 41 million trick-or-treaters between ages 5 and 14 will be flooding neighborhoods across America. Costumed children will joyously fill their coiffures with “Halloween gold.” Of course I’m...

1 in 6 Americans are Hungry

Weight Control

1 in 6 Americans don’t have enough to eat. Doctor Mache explains the health issues associated with too little food and the impact it has on healthcare and the finances of the United States. Filmed at a Feeding America and Connecticut Food Bank event in...