“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 [...]
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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.
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.” (Note: 9/27/09 – I have been learning Korean the past year. Not good at it but [...]
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on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 12:08 pm and is filed under Video, Weight.
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Cindy Crawford is a very smart supermodel. Is that an oxymoron? She married Richard Gere: smart Hollywood move. She was the #1 paid human mannequin. (I would love to be paid $10,000 to walk down a runway in underwear– ummm, let me think about that more.)
She endorsed many products to make millions of [...]
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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 [...]
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on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am and is filed under Diabetes, Food, Video, Weight.
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“You have to die of something.” I hear that at least once a week in my practice. People who say this about their high cholesterol and hypertension indicate that they accept the associated risks of congestive heart failure, strokes, and peripheral artery disease. Obese people who say this mean they accept the risk of [...]
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on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm and is filed under Weight.
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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 [...]
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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on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 11:02 am and is filed under Health & Wellness, Weight.
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Eating habits are very interesting. Some people don’t let food on their plate touch-so much for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Some people won’t eat meat if the bone is still attached-so much for T-bone steaks. I know some who graze like Elsie the cow but won’t sit down for dinner with the rest [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ve always been the shortest guy– in school, among my friends, among my colleagues. In my medical school class picture, I’m standing in the front. No one wants to play volleyball with me because I can’t spike the ball. I have to have all my pants altered because no one makes 29/29 pants. Everything in [...]
I recently received a heart-breaking letter from a woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (POCS). The classic signs are hirsuitism (hairy face and body), but male pattern baldness, acne, irregular menstrual cycles, and sometimes infertility can also present.
“Before I found out I had PCOS I felt so alone and depressed,” says the Waynesboro correspondent. “I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
