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 [...]
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.
Facebook is pretty amazing to me…and a lot of fun! I was resistant for years to use this Internet site because I have too many things to do. However, it has connected me to long-lost friends as well as led me to make new associations for my growing media empire.
Connecting with long-lost [...]
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Michael Phelps eats like 12,000 calories a day! Holy Cow… literally the whole cow! I saw magazine pictures of his breakfast.
If I tried to eat as much as I saw, I would give birth to a baby pancake right there on the spot. But look at his body and how fast he swims. [...]
Margaret Cho is a Korean comedian who is so on my radar now. I met her in the ’90s at an award show in L.A. (ah, those were the days when I lived in Tinseltown).
I told her how sad I was that other Koreans were insulting her and her TV show, All American Girl. [...]
Mickey Mouse-has he become obese? Minnie Mouse too? According to the New York Times, Disneyland is fixing up the “It’s a Small World” ride to accommodate obese riders.
Hmm, ironic it’s a small world. The ride was built in 1963, and back then people weren’t as heavy as we are now. In fact, when [...]
Weird Al Yankovic sang, “Eat it/ Open up your mouth and feed it.” That pretty much sums up Central Virginia, because let me tell you, girl, mmm, there’s enough delicious food here to make Liz Taylor become a Virginia senator’s wife again.
Based on my own observations, Central Virginia seems to be on the [...]
Coffee is hot… well, as long as it isn’t iced coffee. We all know that. I recently picked up a cup of coffee at the coffee house, and it felt like a sizzling curling iron on Project Runway. So why would anyone put coffee between her legs-while driving-and sue the restaurant for her [...]
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 [...]
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups used to have a silly commercial—but an effective one. Two people would collide, and one person’s chocolate would fall into the other person’s peanut butter. (Or is it the other way around?)
In our “blame-someone-else society” the two would argue, “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter.” “No, you got [...]
When I was in college, I saw a crazy, steamy movie called, 9-l/2 Weeks. There’s a scene beside an open refrigerator in which blindfolded Kim Basinger eats unidentified food given to her by Mickey Rourke. Oscar-winner Basinger reportedly said later that Rourke’s breath smelled like cigarettes the whole time, so I wonder if she opposed [...]
I would never survive in jail. When I was a UVA fellow, I interviewed at the local jail for a moonlighting position. I suddenly related to my mother’s experience as medical resident in NYC when she had to help at the local lock-up. Whooping, hollering (unlike Gwen Stefani, who ain’t no Hollaback Girl), and name-calling– [...]
Exercise, the word, might sound like profanity to some people. Perhaps the “ex” reminds people of negative words like exile, extortion, or ex-spouse. But then there are good words like expert, excellent, xmas. Hmm.
I try to come up with creative solutions with my patients who balk at exercise. Could the readers of The Hook [...]
There are too many homonyms and acronyms that all sound the same but have different meanings. How in the world can we keep up with all the different meanings for the same-sounding words?
For example, PSA in medicine means “prostate specific antigen,” but at the news station it means “public service announcement.” There are many [...]
We were the only Asian people in the small town in Ohio where I grew up. In fact, many of the people thought we were Mexican because they weren’t used to seeing Asian people. Ole!
So when my classmates learned I ate exotic foods like sushi, seaweed, and squid (aka calamari, which I think [...]
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 [...]
My mother’s favorite ride is Disneyland’s “It’s A Small World.” All the little toy children spin around and sing the same song in different languages. At the time Walt Disney oversaw the creation of “It’s A Small World,” the country was not top-heavy with overweight or obese people as the US is today– 66 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
