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.
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
“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, [...]
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Fame suits me well. I was shopping at Whole Foods, and between picking the yum-yummiest vegan General Tso’s “Chicken” and some apples, a few fans stopped me. The first said, “I saw you speak at our conference, and I just loved you! I don’t remember what you talked about, but…” The next person said, [...]
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2008 was the Chinese Year of the Rat, the first of the 12 calendar animals. If I were to make my own interpretation of the year, it would be the Year of the Dirty Rat (said like James Cagney– although I just learned he never actually said that. Go figure!)
Someone explain this to [...]
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. [...]
Oil changes used to be recommended every 7,000 miles when I first started driving. Now it is every 3,000 miles! I HATE getting my oil changed because it is like shopping at a warehouse: you go in to buy milk and end up leaving with a pool table in addition. “Oh, you can get [...]
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“I’m walking on sunshine, Wooah, And don’t it feel good!” Remember Katrina and The Waves? Oh, you don’t? So many one-hit wonders. I don’t know if it would be worse to never have a big song or to think you have it “made in the shade” and then never walk on sunshine again. [...]
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) – an oxymoron? You know how people joke that military intelligence, children’s literature, and jumbo shrimp are oxymorons? My whole medical training was based on EBM. I’ve replaced reading People Magazine with peer-reviewed medical journals. In EBM, doctors look to medical studies to guide them in making medical decisions. [...]
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Garlic is food for the gods! Should I also include goddesses? (In Hollywood they no longer say actors and actresses; everyone is an actor. So to be more equal opportunity, shouldn’t I just say gods?)
Back to garlic, I love garlic– overall. I cook with it a lot! But like some women retain water during [...]
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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 [...]
Weight sucks! This is how I would sum up 2007. Yes, it’s true that patients fondly refer to me as “The Weight Nazi” (”No soup for you! Or donuts!”), but weight sucks because we get psychotic messages about weight.
Look at Kirstie Alley. She walked in a bikini on Oprah because she’d lost some weight. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Finding a new primary care physician (PCP) can be quite an undertaking. For example, pretend you’re the beautiful Brooke Shields. You just had a baby and you’re not feeling so hot, so you Google to find a new PCP. There are a ton of doctors’ names, and you click on a few hoping to find [...]
“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 [...]
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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 [...]
Barbra Streisand sang, “Memories, like the corners of my mind…” in the movie The Way We Were. And then she puts her hand on Robert Redford’s face to say goodbye. Okay, I’m all verklempt.
Can we talk? What in the world was she thinking? You don’t say goodbye to Robert Redford. You cling, and plead, [...]
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 [...]
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.” When I go to South Korea, they think I look Chinese. In fact, when I eat dim sum, the Chinese [...]
My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice, I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven’t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda.
Things could be worse– like [...]
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 [...]
Kathy Griffin is a goddess. Yes, move over Venus– Kathy is here! She recently performed at The Paramount– run by the fabulous Chad Hershner– and brought da House down (as Queen Latifah would say).
Kathy has a Bravo network reality show that documents every funny and bold moment of her life as a stand-up comedian and [...]
Where do myths and misconceptions come from? Some people swear that eating white raisins soaked in gin relieves arthritis pains. (Gin should be a card game, not a drink. Yuck!) Some people tie a dirty sock around their necks to fight off colds. (My luck, I would get athletes foot on my neck.)
Many people [...]
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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 [...]
My office coordinator says to me, “Someone comes in for a cold, rash, or hangnail, and they leave with an order for a screening colonoscopy.” I say to her, “I also order mammograms, do PAP smears, check prostates, and do other health maintenance things– don’t those count?”
Are colonoscopies that dreaded? Should the name be [...]
Things pop all the time. “Pop goes the weasel!” “I’m so mad my head is going to pop off!” “Pop open the trunk.”
We pop off the heads of dandelions. At the movies we eat pop corn. In the Midwest, soda is called “pop.” Champagne corks can pop into your eye and cause damage (a [...]
When I worked part-time in an Emergency Department in Richmond, there was a young clerk who knew every rap song out there. However, when I sang, “Happy Talk” (even with choreography), she had no clue where the song came from. Her blank stare is permanently burned in my memory.
So being the Ira Gershwin that [...]
Even though customer service is such a difficult job, every business seems to be raising the bar to keep their customers happy and allow their business to thrive.
“This is Amy, your personal banking specialist who cares about you and will fight for every ATM transaction you do, even when your funds are as depleted [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?
This song makes no sense, but I sing it every year at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. Why do I bother to sing it when I’m clueless about its meaning? For all I know, [...]
I was at the grocery store this weekend, and two women came up to me screaming, “We know you! Yadda yadda yadda!”
They were so funny and friendly that I figured we must know each other. But then “Mr. Uncomfortable” hit me, because I couldn’t figure out who they were. I’m terrible with names, so [...]
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Some people beg for the flu shot each October. Others are petrified of getting one. “Last time I got a flu shot, I was sick as a dog. I almost died!” they say. (I always wondered why we say “sick as a dog” because my dogs have always been healthy.)
I try to convince my [...]
One of my favorite movies is Something’s Gotta Give with Diane Keaton. Why did she show up at the Oscars wearing her Annie Hall outfit? That is so ’70s, and she didn’t win the Oscar again in that outfit.
Anyway, Keaton’s young daughter is dating old Jack Nicholson. While “fooling around” Nicholson starts to have [...]
The Beatles sang a great song, “Here Comes the Sun.” I love the sun; it makes a gray day… well, sunny. “Sunny, thank you for the sunshine in my life…”
Regardless of how much we love the sun, skin cancer is on the rise. So a rock group like No Doubt needs to come up [...]
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 [...]
In Asia, red meat is as rare as pink diamonds in America (though I’m sure J Lo might have a trove). When my cousins immigrated from South Korea in 1975, I remember how much red meat they ate. They ate so much steak and Korean beef BBQ that I thought they were going to put [...]
Grandma Walton said something like, “If God intended people to smoke, He would have put chimney tops on our heads.”
I don’t remember much about The Waltons, but I do remember that phrase, because smoking is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. What about other people? Second-hand smoke is still being [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
