Kerri-Lee Halkett and John Hong, MD discuss three studies. Obesity genes can be thwarted with exercise. Women with BRCA mutations can live longer with removal of ovaries. And IUDs are becoming popular again.
Mosquitoes! I hate them. There can be 100 people in a room and one mosquito, and I will be the only one in that room bitten. Once bitten, twice– not shy, itchy! I used to swell up from mosquito bites like Tom Cruise’s ego. I have a can of “Off!” everywhere I go– even that [...]
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has no cure or effective treatment. Hopefully a new retrovirus might shed light on its cause and lead to a cure. | Tea is for intellectuals and coffee is for hard workers (like myself). However, the polyphenols that improved cholesterol, fight cancer and heart disease, aren’t that high [...]
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on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 6:43 pm and is filed under Addiction, Food, Rheumatology, Video.
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I’m writing this article on Father’s day, when men all over the country celebrate the joys of parenthood. But what happens when a man cannot have a baby?
Oh, I know a man doesn’t get pregnant— well, unless he’s Thomas Beatie, a female-to-male transgender. I mean some men are unable to impregnate a woman. One of [...]
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Flu shots are already available? You have to be kidding me! My own office doesn’t even have flu shots yet. You don’t want to get a flu shot too early because then you won’t be protected by the flu in the spring. CDC recommends flu shot November to March. | [...]
Bullies. Do you know some or have you known some? Normally when you think of a bully, you think of a kid, but trust me: there are plenty of adult bullies. My fifth-grade reading teacher used to call me racists names (though always Chinese and Japanese because he didn’t know what Korean was). Mind you, [...]
Botox for the face is the number-one non-surgical cosmetic procedure. It’s like “Take that frown and turn it upside down” because it paralyzes the muscles– although depending on where the Botox is used, both happy and frustrated faces can be erased.
A recent a study indicates emotions might be blunted because of this Botox effect. [...]
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on Saturday, August 14th, 2010 at 5:56 pm and is filed under Food, Toxins.
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Pea and The Princess is one thing, but a pea in the lung is more than bizarre. Watch about the man in Cape Cod who had a pea plant found inside his lung. | NDM-1 gene is making E. Coli resistant to some antibiotics, like some staph. This could be bad news. | [...]
I didn’t know nail salons use UV light to dry certain types of nail treatments. But can UV light put a nail in your coffin…by skin cancer? | Bacteria is changing in our bodies, and does this change our health? | More people are being honest about being obese, but do people really [...]
Flip? What does it meant to be flip? Supermodel and phone-throwing Naomi Campbell flipped in Culture Club’s “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” video. (That was before the age of the flip phone.) Some people flip the bird, which I’m sure the Audobon society frowns upon. A flip jump in [...]
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Trick or Treat! Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat. (Ah, to be a kid again!) Thinking about it, isn’t it coercion to threaten to toilet-paper people’s houses or soap their windows if they don’t fork over some candy?
“Give me candy or you can Hershey Kiss this place goodbye.”
I must admit I haven’t [...]
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July 21, Kerri-Lee of Fox29 and I discuss the 5 Second Rule. True there are bacteria on the floor and even your kitchen counter that can get you sick. I would never eat anything dropped on the street or ground. But is it really that much of a risk to eat something like [...]
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“Inheritance is the retirement plan for “gold diggers.”
As much fun as I thought Anna Nicole Smith was, let’s face it: she wouldn’t have married a man 63 years older than she was (wasn’t he 88 when she pushed his wheelchair down the aisle?) if he weren’t a billionaire. (On the flip side, he [...]
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on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 7:10 pm and is filed under Neurologic, Psych.
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“Huh?” Isn’t that likely the most used word today?
With smart phones, computers, music videos flashing different shots every other second, news info crawling under the news anchors themselves, and satellite radio beeping you when a favorite song plays on a different station, is it any surprise we’re distracted?
I used to think a lady [...]
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on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 at 10:59 am and is filed under Psych.
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To stick out your neck for others is a noble thing to do– most of the time. It’s good to stick out your neck for a friend in danger, like for Rihanna. It might not be a good idea to stick out your neck for a friend who is a thief and a liar, like [...]
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on Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 9:10 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular.
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The Acropolis is one of the most amazing places I’ve been. As a college student, I went to Greece on a three-week Classics Studies Tour in 1987, and Athens was hot and polluted even back then. Sweat made my glasses slide off my little Asian nose like toddlers down a water park ride.
I didn’t [...]
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on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 10:21 am and is filed under Eyes.
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LOL. If you don’t know what that means, then you probably don’t own a smart phone or use Internet social networks.
Someone told me for a year he thought it meant “Lots of Love.” It means “Laughing Out Loud,” although honestly, I don’t think most people are “ha-ha’ing” when they type LOL. I know I’m [...]
Eating habits are very interesting. Some people don’t let food on their plate touch-so much for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Some people won’t eat meat if the bone is still attached-so much for T-bone steaks. I know some who graze like Elsie the cow but won’t sit down for dinner with the [...]
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“Can you stomach it?” That’s a very good question.
Having a lot of fortitude is a good thing, but some things are over the top. Enron didn’t prepare most people to stomach the alleged crimes of Goldman Sachs. No matter how many episodes of What Not to Wear, I sometimes can’t stomach how some ladies [...]
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on Saturday, June 19th, 2010 at 8:23 am and is filed under Digestive System.
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Open mouth, insert foot. Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to die because you said something inappropriate?
Some friends threw a farewell party for me in LA when I finished residency. Not that I was a Chatty Cathy, but– I said to a couple of my friends across the dinner table, [...]
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Heidi Klum, former supermodel and host of Project Runway, says, “In fashion, one day you’re in, the next you’re out.” She’s right— look at designer Isaac Mizrahi. One day he was in Nieman Marcus; now he’s in Target.
In his documentary, Unzipped, Mizrahi introduced us to the world of high fashion and dealing with supermodels like [...]
AAA, C, 9-volt, Lithium batteries: Why are there so many different types? The problem with having so many different types of batteries is that you never have the one you need.
Sure, that Energizer Bunny keeps going, and going, and going– but the commercial doesn’t show you scrambling around to find the right type of [...]
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on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 5:20 am and is filed under Cardiovascular.
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“Crack is whack,” according to once diva superstar Whitney Houston. Some other cracks are really bad: crack in your windshield, crack in your fine china, step on a crack break your mother’s back–
Other cracks are good: crack a smile, crack up at a good joke, cheese and crack…ers.
What about the gluteal cleft, otherwise known [...]
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Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer must have had a pretty big ego to think he could hire prostitutes and not get caught. Hello! But then again, it seems most powerful people get a swollen head and feel untouchable-until they get a swollen lip when they get caught. Perhaps if the head did visibly [...]
Jell-O molds make most people happy. Seafood served in a lobster shape on the buffet table makes the dish fun. Fruit cocktail in a Bundt-shaped green mold is a classic at any potluck. “Watch it wiggle, see it jiggle–”
There’s always room for Jell-O, but what if the mold in your house is not Jell-O brand [...]
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Neti Pots sold out for weeks after Dr. Oz on Oprah showed the world how using them helps allergies. (Grr, what does Dr. Oz have that I don’t– well, besides Oprah Winfrey?)
Need a nasal douche for your allergies?
My doctor father had me doing nasal douches way before America caught onto the Neti Pot. In fact, [...]
Endocannabinoids: losing weight?
Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump need to hash it out more so they can continue to irritate America! C’mon, Donald! You’re a rich successful man and, yes, your last name is “Trump, but you’re acting more like Donald Duck.
Lionel Ritchie needs to hash it out with his daughter, Nicole. Personally, I wouldn’t [...]
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“Speechless” is a glam-rock type of song from the one, the only: Lady Gaga. Love Lady Gaga. Want to see her perform in Atlantic City, but I can’t find anyone to join me to see her brilliance. I wonder if Thomas Jefferson will be speechless when she performs at John Paul Jones Arena.
Many things [...]
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I think I have a PhD in sweating. When I was in a show choir in high school, I used to sweat more than Tina Turner + Bruce Springsteen on stage. When I’d play golf (the most evil sport in the entire world), my head looked like Niagara Falls. To this day, I cannot [...]
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on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 11:47 am and is filed under Infections.
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Cloris Leachman is very funny. High Anxiety proved it. Remember those pointy breasts as Nurse Diesel? Still, I didn’t know how raunchy she could be until I saw her roast Bob Saget. Oooh, child!
Then she kept the censors for Dancing with the Stars jumping every time she was on air this past season [...]
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“Smokin’ in the Boys Room” is a pretty popular song. “Everybody knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in school.” (Didn’t the songwriter know “ain’t” ain’t a word?)
One of my classmates got caught smoking when he was 10 years old. Do you know what his father did to punish him? He made him smoke two packs [...]
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on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 12:11 pm and is filed under Abuse, Addiction, Drugs & Alcohol.
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Most people think MVP stands for “Most Valuable Player,” but not me. I don’t watch any sports except figure skating and gymnastics during the Olympics, and tennis. (BTW, Kim Yu Na is the Olympic Gold Medalist in figure skating. Go, Korean sista, go!)
Back to MVP: should there really be such an honor? Why do [...]
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Ears burning? Maybe someone is talking about you! It’s like that Bonnie Raitt song, “Something to Talk About.” Or– could it be that you’re paranoid or super egocentric?
Really, in the end, it doesn’t matter what people think about you– but then again, as I’ve learned on Wisteria Lane (i.e. Desperate Housewives), it does [...]
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Mistaken identity is pretty common. Don’t you hate it when you think you see a friend, and you call out her name and wave– only to receive a puzzled response from a complete stranger?
In that situation, you can a) Pretend you’re trying to greet someone else in the room, so the stranger doesn’t think [...]
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on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 at 9:16 am and is filed under Medicines, Patient Behavior.
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Maggie Moo, our beloved hound, sniffs everything. Her nose is like a bank of knowledge. We can drive somewhere, and without even looking out the window, she can smell where she is. If we drive to the vet, her nose tips her off, and she starts to shake with dread. When we drive to the [...]
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“Let Go and Let God” is an expression I’ve heard for a couple of decades. I still haven’t mastered it. Actually, I can’t really say I’m trying to master it. Well, really… oh, never mind. The point is that some things are just out of our control, like the weather, traffic, and Lindsay [...]
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on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Digestive System, Video.
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Crooked teeth, crooked painting on the wall, Enron executives. There are many crooked things in life. I had crooked teeth most of my life until I got braces at the age of 36. I wear my retainer every single dingle night to keep them straight– the only thing straight about me.
What happens with [...]
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on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 8:48 am and is filed under Men's Issues, Sex Issues.
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“Cramp your style? Someone pulling you off stage while you’re singing karaoke can cramp your style. Your spouse telling you that your next business venture must have come from a brain-injured baboon can cramp your style. A co-worker who sarcastically asks if you have a mirror at home can cramp your style.
What happens if [...]
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on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 4:12 pm and is filed under Pain, Women's Issues.
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“Beans, Beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot.” Every kid has chanted this mantra on the playground at least once.
There are many types of beans: lima beans, kidney beans, navy beans, L.L. Bean, les-beans.
But I don’t know too many people who eat beans. I don’t eat many beans myself, [...]
Sleepy? My best friend in medical school and I used to study in the basement of the medical school library. The desks were like little cubicles to ensure privacy, although they made me feel like a horse with blinders on.
A library being a library, it was very quiet — with one exception. Snoooooooore!!!! One dude [...]
Good vibes? Bad vibes? Don’t we all have a sixth sense at times? The problem is that sometimes we don’t listen to our inner voice. We follow a slick vibe, like investing in Enron or hanging out with people who are more toxic than Love Canal in the ’70s.
I watched a movie with Naomi [...]
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Chopped liver? When we feel undervalued, we sometimes ask, “What am I– chopped liver?” I don’t think the liver should be referenced as something undervalued, as it’s a vital organ that filters the junk in our blood. (Too bad it doesn’t filter the emotional vomit on today’s blogs and in those with [...]
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on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 10:57 am and is filed under Digestive System, Infections.
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Pain in the neck? A human resource specialist told me that 95 percent of his work is dealing with the 5 percent of employees who are a pain in the neck.
Albert Einstein said something like five minutes with a bore seems like an hour, yet one hour in the company of a beautiful woman [...]
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on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 at 10:33 am and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Neurologic, Pain.
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Gold medals are gold for a reason. However, my skating coach said to me, “Competing is not about winning a medal. It’s about doing your best.” I replied, “If medals aren’t important, then why are they so shiny?” They aren’t made of tin or stone.
So somehow I came up with the crazy idea [...]
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on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 5:17 pm and is filed under Dermatology, Video.
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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a very interesting movie. Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for best actress in 1975. (But she wasn’t there! I could have had Ebola virus and would still have shown up. Martin Scorsese, the director, accepted the Oscar for her.)
In this movie, her spouse dies at work. She [...]
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on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Psych.
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When I was a kid, I used to read everything from Spider-Man to X-Men, but Iron Man was never one of my favorite comic book heroes. Who would have imagined in years to come that all these superheroes’ stories would become blockbuster movies? I guess it’s like Bonnie Tyler’s hit song, “I Need a [...]
“Mocha choca lata ya ya.” Sing it, Lady Marmalade!
I never knew what a mocha was until I was in college. (Then again, I didn’t know what brie was either, until one time when I ate practically an entire wheel at a college function. Mmm.) Back then, coffee was something that came from a [...]
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on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 6:33 pm and is filed under Food, Hormones Endocrine, Weight.
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Las Vegas is sin city? It’s been four years since I’ve been to Vegas, and to me it’s pretty cleaned up. (Although to some people, that’s like saying a brothel going from cash to credit card is cleaned up.)
For example, it was almost impossible to find a raunchy postcard to send [...]
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on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 6:15 pm and is filed under Psych, Video.
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Freezer burn is a tradition in every household. We visited a friend’s mother-in-law’s house a while back. There was a huge freezer in the basement, and I thought about all the shows and movies where people hide a dead body in the freezer. So as a joke I opened it up, ready to pretend [...]
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on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Dermatology, Emergencies, Injuries.
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Pineapple upside down cake was something I had never experienced until my TV news producer asked me to talk about Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) with a cookbook author. I had never heard of this cook (her name escapes me– well, more likely the trauma created by her has caused a mental block. For artistic [...]
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on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 3:35 am and is filed under Digestive System, Video.
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“Virginia is for Lovers”? Can I sue the Commonwealth of Virginia for false advertising? (BTW, does anyone know the difference between a State and a Commonwealth?)
Virginia needs to change the state motto to “Virginia is for legally married couples. Forget being in a long-term relationship that’s not one of those: you can’t make a [...]
Chest pains: yes, certain things give me chest pains. People who don’t put their shopping cart away! Grocery stores should handcuff the cart to such patrons and un-handcuff them when they return the cart. Litter bugs! Can’t you put your cigarette in your ashtray for proper disposal later? The highway is not a [...]
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on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 1:04 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Emergencies, Video.
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Layoffs are all about numbers: profit and losses. When the losses are more than the profits, jobs are lost. The people I know who have been laid off pretty much know it wasnt personal. In fact, the people who laid them off are often anonymous executives who dont have a clue about their employees.
Nonetheless, [...]
When I was a child in New York City, my parents actually belonged to a country club. I remember these ladies with B-52 beehive hairdos in their swimsuits lying on the pool chairs. It was from these ladies that I learned the sidestroke.
Here’s how it works. The ladies would dip their polished toenails [...]
“Baby, baby. Where did our love go?” “Baby,come back!” “Baby face, you’ve got the cutest little baby face.”
There are more songs that use the word “baby,” than smokers who throw their cigarettes out the car window. (Hello! You have an ashtray.)
So many people want to have a baby– maybe not the child as [...]
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on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at 1:45 pm and is filed under Women's Issues.
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iTouch and iPhone have some competition now: myTouch.
My goodness– um, not a new phone. I have an iPhone and love, love, love it. I touch the screen and voila, it does what I want! Forget actually calling someone. It offers email, the Internet, text messaging, photographs, fun and informative applications, and more. It [...]
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on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Neurologic, Pain.
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POP is such a powerful word. You want things to visually POP out, like a bright tie in contrast to a dark shirt. For my webpage design, I used Opti-POP to make such I wouldn’t be ignored like Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. As a kid, I loved my [...]
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on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 6:35 pm and is filed under Digestive System, Pain, Video.
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The Bank of America should be renamed to Bank of Paying Executives Big Money. Ken Lewis, BOA CEO, is stepping down with a $53 million pension plan– ah, when he’s already worth $125 million! So it’s pretty clear that some of that rescue money from the $700 billion bailout is going to his mansion [...]
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on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 7:47 pm and is filed under Insurance.
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Sweaty hands? Feel the pressure? When I was younger, I used to sweat at the drop of a hat. In high school, I was in a show choir, “The Top 20.” One dreaded night just before a performance, I ripped my pants in a bad place, but in Ethel Merman style, the show [...]
Tyra Banks made quite a spectacle of herself when she wore a bathing suit on her show. She told people who think she’s fat that they can kiss her fat *#^!, and she slapped her heinie. Hell has no fury like a diva scorned.
I don’t know how people can get on a stage, wear high [...]
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on Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Infections.
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“Got Milk?” is probably one of the best ads ever. The milk mustache, though, is kind of weird to see on supermodels and athletes. But then again, as I get older I see that I’m starting to spill food and miss my mouth more often when I eat and drink. (Why does this happen [...]
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on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pm and is filed under Digestive System, Food.
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“Slow down, you move too fast. You’ve got to make the morning laaaaast.”
Simon and Garfunkel wrote some pretty amazing songs. But things are much more fast-paced now than they were back in their heyday. Don’t believe me? If music videos flash so fast they can induce seizures…well, that’s Usain Bolt [...]
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on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm and is filed under Hormones Endocrine, Video.
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Addiction to drugs leads to a path of wanting more: more drugs, more often. It is a chronic disease of impaired control of using drugs/alcohol despite the harm they cause. The repeated use of the substance comes from craving and/or the compulsive need to use it whether from physical or psychological dependence.
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on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 7:25 am and is filed under Drugs & Alcohol, Psych.
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Type II Diabetes was called “Adult Onset Diabetes,” but it isn’t anymore because it’s now occurring and increasing in children and adolescents. In fact, one study shows that with the current trends in childhood/adolescent obesity, 40-50 percent of babies born after the year 2000 will develop Type II Diabetes in their lifetimes.
Embarrassing things happen all the time in everyday life. I’m trying to play more tennis, and right now my skills are mediocre at best. Recently I chipped a shot beautifully into the backhand corner against my tennis buddy.
“Wow,” I thought to myself, “that was a great shot!” My brief moment of glory ended [...]
Six Feet Under is probably my favorite television series ever. The Fisher & Sons Funeral Home was not a fun place like a disco club or an amusement park, but it was a quite interesting. In the very first episode, Nathaniel Fisher, the father of the family, is driving his brand-new hearse and smoking [...]
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on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Video.
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Planets are pretty fascinating. Don’t you think it is amazing there are other planets, suns, and moons? Not to sound like Katherine Hepburn (remember, Barbara Walters asked her if she were a tree, what kind would she be?), but if I were a planet, I would definitely be Mercury, named after the Roman messenger [...]
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“I’m scarred for life.” Not “scared” as in, “Run, Forrest, Run,” but as in, “You hurt me. You hurt me bad!”
Scars never really go away. They can diminish, but a scar is a scar: Al Pacino, Scarface– Batman’s Two Face– Joan Rivers– Oh, wait, those are multiple face lifts.
Remember in Lethal Weapon (I [...]
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on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Dermatology.
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Pâté is not politically correct food because of what is done to poor Mrs. Goose. Personally I think eating liver is like eating toenails or something. But then again some people eat pig’s feet, so we all have our preferences, including me.
Back in Kenton, OH, my terrorizing classmates would ridicule [...]
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on Sunday, October 11th, 2009 at 2:33 pm and is filed under Diabetes, Kidneys, Video.
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Red is a bold color. You have to be brave to wear an all-red outfit. How many men have you seen wear a red suit, besides The Joker and Elton John?
I wear red ties. I don’t have any red pants or shirts. Shoe colors are “cordovan” or “ox blood,” but not red. Better [...]
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on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 am and is filed under Dermatology, Infections.
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“Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” As if!
Quite a few people seem to believe their houses are made of Pyrex, so they get out their slings like David going after Goliath. That’s why politicians shouldn’t have negative campaign ads-it ends up like two nasty high school girls fighting to [...]
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on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am and is filed under Kidneys, Pain, Video.
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“Scab” is such an interesting word. I remember the culture shock in third grade when we moved from the Big Apple to Nowhereland, Ohio– and the shock was more for them than us. They looked and talked to us like we were Martians. (”We come in peace, but if you aren’t peaceful, I’m going [...]
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on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pm and is filed under Cardiovascular, Pulmonary.
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Korean as I am, I’m not very Korean. I didn’t learn the language, so all my relatives call me “stupid” in Korean. I don’t even know how to spell “stupid” in Korean– something like “pa-bow.” (Note: 9/27/09 – I have been learning Korean the past year. Not good at it but [...]
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on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 12:08 pm and is filed under Video, Weight.
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Cindy Crawford is a very smart supermodel. Is that an oxymoron? She married Richard Gere: smart Hollywood move. She was the #1 paid human mannequin. (I would love to be paid $10,000 to walk down a runway in underwear– ummm, let me think about that more.)
She endorsed many products to make millions of [...]
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on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm and is filed under Healthcare costs, Weight.
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on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections, Video.
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“Step on a crack, Break your mother’s back.” You know, just because something rhymes doesn’t mean it makes sense. I’ll tell you what will break your mother’s back: moving back into her house– when you’re 40 years old! Okay, more likely osteoporosis will break your mother’s (or father’s) back, but what is the deal [...]
Do you have a lead foot? My brother and I learned to drive in rural Ohio from parents who used to drive in New York City. So we didn’t have just lead in our feet. We had lead, uranium, titanium, and Rush Limbaugh’s gigantically obscene belly in our feet. Imagine the terror we created [...]
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on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 8:54 am and is filed under Video, Weight.
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“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is an interesting song. Maybe opponents of End of Life (EOL) counseling should use that melody for “Pull the plug on my dear old grandma.” Hmm, something tells me no one will be singing that song during Christmas.
And I don’t think Rudolph would intentionally run over [...]
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on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 8:51 am and is filed under Insurance, Senior Citizens.
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Sex is such an interesting topic. There are talk shows solely about sex. I remember in ninth grade we had sex education in my little uber-conservative hometown. I was shocked they offered it. Most folks in my hometown believed babies came from a stork. Our very nice physical education teacher did a great job [...]
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on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm and is filed under Infections, Sex Issues.
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Male sexual dysfunction starts at age 40 and gets worse each decade. Erectile dysfunction occurs 47% of men 55 or older. ED is 40% in men who are 40.
Conjunction junction, Erectile dysfunction.” I don’t think my changing the lyrics of this School House Rock song would go over very well. I think Superhero Verb [...]
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Suffocating personalities. I’m sure you know some people who choke the life out of you. They stop by your house without notice, and then expect you to feed them. Phone calls after 10pm and voice mails: “Hi, why haven’t you returned any of my 15 calls today?”
You’re always at fault, and they’re perfect, [...]
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on Monday, August 24th, 2009 at 6:18 pm and is filed under Safety, Toxins.
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Medicare D is a prescription program for those with Medicare B or who are eligible for Medicare A. Most of my patients who have Medicare D are dissatisfied. And in 2008 they introduced the stupid Donut Hole. Ugh. Medicare Part D 2007:
Some senior citizens suffer. My parents are in their [...]
AARP Magazine named Charlottesville to be one of the top ten healthiest cities to live. I believe it because there are 10 billion healthcare providers here! C’ville ranks 4th among US metropolitan areas in the number of doctors per capita. So if you are a shopper, C’ville is like northern Virginia’s Tysons Galleria [...]
Falling and tripping make a lot of people laugh– until it happens to them.
I don’t know why people laugh when they see others get hurt, like on that show America’s Funniest Home Videos. I refuse to watch it because I don’t understand what’s so funny about seeing someone hit the ground. As a [...]