Diet and Glaucoma
ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS (UPFs) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH a higher risk for glaucoma. Today, we explore the relationship between diet and this eye disease. I have previously written about the negative health... Read More
Reduce Your Kidney Disease Risk
I AM GOING TO BEGIN WITH A QUIZ ABOUT the exercise amount you need to do weekly to shield against kidney disease and neuropathy. Today, I’ll show you a relatively... Read More
Herbal Medicines to Fight Diabetes
WHILE MY BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS ARE in the high normal range, I wondered how to bring them down a bit. I began to look for research regarding the use of herbal... Read More
Coffee To Fight Colon Cancer
I AM A TEA PERSON, MORE SPECIFICALLY, EARL GREY. But I also enjoy an occasional cafe latte. As a cancer doctor, I was delighted to learn that in the battle... Read More
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A New Cancer Screening Test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a study to see if the Galleri blood test can reduce late-stage cancer diagnoses for cancers that don’t have traditional screening approaches. Today,... Read More
7 Exercise Snacks
DO YOU FIND IT CHALLENGING TO SET ASIDE dedicated time for extensive exercise routines? Today, I want to explore exercise snacks: 7 tiny workouts for big results. The world seems... Read More
Long COVID-19 and Vaccines
Long COVID-19 syndrome involves a variety of new, returning, or ongoing symptoms that individuals experience more than four weeks after getting an infection. For some, post-COVID-19 syndrome lasts months or years or causes disability.... Read More
How to Make Your Bones Strong
Bone is living tissue, one that constantly breaks down and replaces itself. Osteoporosis happens when the new bone formation does not keep up with the bone loss.... Read More
3 Breast Cancer Myths You Should Know About
I hear this at least once a week: Nobody in my family had breast cancer; I am surprised that I have it. The American Cancer Society offers that “approximately 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer cases are hereditary, meaning that they result directly from gene changes (mutations) passed on from a parent.”... Read More
Brain Aging – Do This to Slow It Down
The participants had measures of their blood pressure up to four times over 12 years. Researchers used blood pressure measurements and brain scans to determine brain age, a measure of brain health.... Read More
Diet and Glaucoma
ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS (UPFs) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH a higher risk for glaucoma. Today, we explore the relationship between diet and this eye disease. I have previously written about the negative health... Read More
Reduce Your Kidney Disease Risk
I AM GOING TO BEGIN WITH A QUIZ ABOUT the exercise amount you need to do weekly to shield against kidney disease and neuropathy. Today, I’ll show you a relatively... Read More
Herbal Medicines to Fight Diabetes
WHILE MY BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS ARE in the high normal range, I wondered how to bring them down a bit. I began to look for research regarding the use of herbal... Read More
Coffee To Fight Colon Cancer
I AM A TEA PERSON, MORE SPECIFICALLY, EARL GREY. But I also enjoy an occasional cafe latte. As a cancer doctor, I was delighted to learn that in the battle... Read More
3 Nutrition Lies
AS A RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, I HEAR PATIENTS express many diet myths. Today, we will bust some diet myths, focusing on three nutrition lies you must stop believing. Let’s look at... Read More
Dodging Diabetes
I’ll BEGIN BY TESTING YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIABETES and lifestyle tactics to reduce risk. Today, I focus on dodging diabetes. As I age, I am aware that I am at... Read More
5 Tips For Weight Management
ARE YOU TIRED OF RIDING THE FAD DIET ROLLERCOASTER, only to find yourself back where you started? You’re not alone. As I get within a month of my bodybuilding physique... Read More
Muscle Loss and Early Mortality
A NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT THOSE WITH SIGNIFICANT muscle loss sarcopenia) have a higher risk of early mortality. And those who have both sarcopenia and obesity are three times more... Read More