Comments on: Diet Pills – sorry charlie but you have to exercise

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:15:30 +0000

Once again the famous author of LOST (er, what is the whole title? I’m reading your brilliant book right now but I’m too lazy to get up to check the title right now. Anyways! Yoga is a weigth bearing exercise and is very very healthy for you. Look at Madonna!
Dr. Hong

By: J Wood

J Wood — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:33:36 +0000

What to say about the yoga rage? (Is that an oxymoron?) I have nothing against yoga, but from what I know of necessary exercise to maintain a healthy heart, weight-bearing exercise to develop dense bones, maintaining good muscle tone, and keeping up a functioning metabolism, yoga seems more like a warm up or a cool down. Can it be dangerous to replace exercise that leaves you really physically feeling it with something that’s supposed to leave you serene? I could see yoga becoming a full-time replacement for other exercise, and giving someone all the sense of accomplishment but only some of the health benefits.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:10:36 +0000

Dear Dr. Hong,
I enjoy your column in the HOOK. Regarding “TB or not TB” I wonder whether your medical facts were acquired here at UVa? I taught Clinical Microbiology between 1979 and 1996 and cannot remember that I or any of my colleagues ever defined tuberculosis as “a bacteria”. TB is the disease caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it is the disease that has been responsible for the death. Please don’t call a bacterium (Latin neuter singular) “a bacteria” as bacteria is plural, and it is not feminine.

Kind regards,
Dieter H.M. Grvschel, M.D.

An old microbiologist and

Professor emeritus,

UVA Schoold of Medicine

Departments of Pathology

and Internal Medicine

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:31:03 +0000

tracey, you go girl! thanks.
Dr Hong

By: Tracey Saxon

Tracey Saxon — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:17:24 +0000

Go ahead Dr. Hong!

I am writing to testify that while the conversation about weight is never a fun one for any person who is obese, it is a necessary one. Without your blunt, to the point description of what lay in my future I would never have had to really face my own issues. People who fire you are NUTS….but it leaves more time for me!

Tracey

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:33:01 +0000

I couldn’t get the comments section to accept my comment (couldn’t view the image to copy it into the little box so it wouldn’t let me submit)
Anyway – wanted to note the wonderful irony of the Google Ads that are being run at the bottom of your article online…..
I am so on your side. You might not remember, but I wrote to you before about the irony of the UVA Hospital cafeteria giant Krispy Kreme case, and the fact that the UVA Hospital served my husband essentially Hardees breakfast food days after his kidney transplant last year – in clear contradiction to the nice heath instructions in the book they gave him.. When our local major health care system continues to enable those with bad eating habits, I’m sure it’s an uphill battle for individual physicians like you.
Andrea Maleter