Remember the song, “Let’s Get Physical?” Olivia Newton John wore a cute little pink sweat-suit when she sang that smash hit from the ’80s. It still fits her. Her Grease co-star, John Travolta, is not fit. After they finished singing “We Go Together,” he stopped dancing and gained 60 pounds.
I see people at [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, November 5th, 2004 at 3:17 pm and is filed under Diabetes, Exercise, Food, Health & Wellness, Weight. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Remember Carly Simon’s song, “Anticipation”? I never heard of the song until Heinz Ketchup used it in a commercial. (In the commercial, the anticipation of eating the food slathered in ketchup was worth the wait.)
When it comes to a bowel movement, for most people, constipation is not a fun way to experience anticipation. In [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, November 5th, 2004 at 2:09 pm and is filed under Digestive System. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monty Python’s movie The Meaning of Life has a disgusting– but funny– scene at a restaurant where a morbidly obese man takes gluttony to a new level. At the end of his meal, the waiter forces upon him a “wafer-thin” mint. Despite his obvious lack of control over his eating, he reassures the waiter that [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, November 1st, 2004 at 5:18 pm and is filed under Diabetes, Exercise, Food, Health & Wellness, Weight. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

When I was in college, a hypnotist came to entertain us. I was chosen to go up, and I did– unwillingly. The hypnotist had a Barry White type of voice, and he wooed me a little with his, “You are becoming sleepy. Your eyes are heavy.”
I don’t know about the other contestants on [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, November 1st, 2004 at 5:15 pm and is filed under Health & Wellness, Patient Behavior, Psych, Senior Citizens, Stress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.