Food Poisoning
What can you do to prevent getting food poisoining? It is no fun to eat something bad and end of vomiting and having diarrhea.
Sweet Drinks | Are you drinking yourself to obesity?
“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 [...]
Lactose Intolerance | Or should we really say lactose tolerance lucky
“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 [...]
Mercury Poisoning | Not Freddy Mercury
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 [...]
Gas | Fart is not a 4 letter word
What a gas! How did that expression ever come about? Maybe it’s because all of have flatulence every day (i.e. we fart). One reader told me his mother said, “Fart is a four-letter word. We ‘toot’ instead.”
Few people understand the terms flatulence or passing gas, and almost everyone knows fart. Does that make [...]
E. Coli or EEEEK. Coli : The Deadly Type of E. Coli
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. When I was growing up in Ohio, there was no butcher shop… or bakery… There was one supermarket with hitching posts in the parking lot for the Amish buggies. My mother would ask the supermarket butcher to thinly slice the beef for Korean BBQ. I never saw [...]
High Fructose and Obesity | High Fructose Corn Syrup | High Fructose Syrup Video
High-fructose corn syrup is sweet. High dose fructose is associated with Metabolic Syndrome X. High fructose corn syrup is associated with obesity
Soda is soda and a pop is a Popsicle in NYC, where I used to live. But when I moved to Kenton, Ohio at the tender age of 7, I ordered an orange [...]
Food Poisoning | Salmonella in Peanut Butter
Food Poisoning | Salmonella in Peanut Butter
Trans Fats
Trans Fats – Yummy but don’t be a dumby with your heart | Trans Fats | No Trans Fats
Water intoxication
Water intoxication happened to Jennifer Strange. Water intoxication happened by drinking too much water in a “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest held by KDKN
Fiber – It’s more than a gas!
“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, [...]
B12 Deficiency
“She may be weary, Women do get weary, Wearing the same shabby dress…” Don’t you ever get tired and demoralized, feeling like you’ve been run down by a 100-ton freighter?
This is not a multivitamin commercial, as I’m not an advocate for multivitamins; I’m an advocate for eating balanced healthy meals to get vitamins [...]
Stay Young, Stay Healthy
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 [...]
Caffeine – Love it! But is too much of a good thing not good?
Caffeine makes the world go round. As a child, I never liked my parents’ instant coffee. It tasted like brown water to me.
But when I was a college freshman and had to study all night long, I was really tired. So, one day, my friends had me drink a cup of [...]
Food Poisoning | Salmonella in Peanut Butter
Poison is such a sneaky way to murder someone. Kings and Queens made servants sample their meals beforehand to ensure they weren’t poisoned. (Something tells me these servants hated buffets.) Though increasingly now it seems like our current food system is accidentally poisoning Americans. I don’t mean to throw tomatoes at the FDA, but [...]
Trans Fats – Yummy but don’t be a dumby with your heart
DuPont used to advertise “better living through chemistry.” Couples usually talk about the “chemistry” that brought them together. (In Britney Spears and K-Fed’s case, I think their chemistry involved ethanol, among other things.) Bad chemistry between Moonlighting’s Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis made the show a smash.
When I was taking organic chemistry, our [...]
High Fructose and Obesity
Soda is soda and a pop is a Popsicle in NYC, where I used to live. But when I moved to Kenton, Ohio at the tender age of 7, I ordered an orange pop but got an orange soda instead. The confused worker at the Dairy Freeze told me, “You ordered an orange pop, [...]
Water intoxication: you can drink yourself to death–with water
“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”
Gulp! I read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in ninth grade, and I still remember parts of it. Ms. Patrick-Brown was my quirky and incredible English teacher who said, “You will hear this over and over [...]
Endocannabinoids: Can you lose weight with “anti-marijuana” medicine?
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 [...]
Dehydration: Don’t Sweat It Off
Sweat– or is it perspire? According to the dictionary, both verbs sweat and perspire mean “To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin.” Proper Brits know “Horses sweat; men perspire; but ladies glow.” Judy Garland didn’t know about glow. She said, “I wish I could just perspire. Unfortunately, I sweat!” Tina Turner sweats so [...]
Glucose Intolerance: Pre-Diabetes is not so sweet
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 [...]
Food Allergies: Very Untasty
Everyone has a comfort food. Oprah, Dr. Phil, Oprah, Kirstie Ally, Oprah, Star Jones, Oprah, Prime Minster Ariel Sharon, and Opr… ooh– let it go!
Okay, so I will share a deep dark secret. I too have a comfort food. Well, actually a couple of comfort foods. Chinese Family Style Tofu is one. Yes, it [...]
Holiday Cheer = Holiday Pounds
I love fruitcake. Does that make me odd? Hey, anything soaked in rum long enough tastes like– well, rum! Yum, yum! I’m starting to tell all my patients, “If I see you before the holidays, make sure you bring me fruitcake– and your co-payment. Haha.”
Most patients frown and say, “I’ll gladly give you any [...]
Heat Stroke & Heat Exhaustion: It’s too damn hot!
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 [...]
Obesity: Who’s Fat? Not me?
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 [...]
Exercise: Not a 4 Letter Word
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 [...]
Gobble Gobble: Overeating on the holidays makes you a turkey
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 [...]
