This is a fun music video called Junk Food Song that explains why it is bad for you. The sugar and trans fats are bad for our hearts and arteries, but people eat them because they are less expensive, easy to get and full of salt and/or sugar that we’ve gotten used to tasting. It’s part of a …
A new study confirms once again that our weight has a lot to do with our health. Not only can obesity shorten your life, but being too thin can, too. Optimum health comes when we keep our weight in a safe middle range. Doctors determine too fat and too thin by a math formula called Body …
Roughly 1 in 6 men will eventually get prostate cancer and 32,000 men die from it each year. That makes it the second leading cause of death in men due to cancer after lung cancer. But who should be treated? Many men will die of other causes unless the tumor is particularly aggressive.Now researchers have …
The new dietary guidelines are out and the verdict is in: the USDA offers US citizens its food intake advice while at the same time trying to not offend its other responsibility – namely the ranchers of America. In other words, can the USDA want us to lose weight by not eating too much cheese …
The Red Hot Mamas did a Sleep Survey that clearly reveal sleep is a major issue for women throughout their peri-postmenopausal years. However, even though sleep disturbances rank highest of all menopausal symptoms, women are often not asked about it by healthcare providers and patients themselves often fail to bring it to their healthcare providers’ …
Evangelos S. GragoudasDuring a routine eye exam, the Opthalmologist found a dark spot in my wife’s right eye and and feared it could be a melanoma. These cancers are very dangerous and are usually found on the skin. But rarely, they can be found in the eye. So for Valentines Day my wife and I …
