Chocolate is GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
British investigators have reported that in seven different studies people who ate the most chocolate had a 37% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 29% lower risk of stroke compared with those...
View ArticleFlu Facts
Flu facts: 1. The flu virus is serious. Each year, about 200,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized and about 36,000 people die because of the flu. 2. The flu vaccine DOES NOT cause the flu. Remember,...
View ArticleSmoking Past Your Life Expectancy
Here is my stance on cigarette smoking. Cigarettes have been proven to have detrimental effects on people such as COPD, emphysema, and cancer to name a few. There have been some that have lived to 80...
View ArticleSteps You Can Take to Prevent Developing Diabetes
This is a repost from: James Haddad who is a medical student who blogs at Abnormal Facies. In the past decade, the incidence of diabetes in the U.S. has nearly doubled – this is due in large part...
View ArticleHope for Overweight Children
Most overweight and obese children are on a path to becoming obese adults at higher risk of type 2 diabetes high blood pressure, depression, high cholesterol and heart disease cites Goodwin, but if...
View Article“I’m Sick, I Want An Antibiotic!”
I see many patients that come to see the nurse practitioner hoping for an antibiotic for their symptoms of cough, runny nose, headache & generalized weakness that has been going on for 2 days....
View ArticleLive, Laugh, Love
Ena Pugh and Lily Willward, British twins who celebrated their 102nd birthday. (Wales News Service) What is the secret to long life? Scientists have been studying centurions to discover the...
View ArticleWhat Do Most American’s Spend 1/3 of Their Life Doing?
What do most Americans spend 1/3 of their life doing? The answer is sleep. That is an incredible amount of time spent wasted if the sleep you are getting is ineffective. A large majority of Americans...
View ArticleHow long do you expect to live? by George Lundberg, MD
To just what age do you expect to live? You haven’t thought about it? I bet you have. Would you like to live as long as Methuselah? Television’s “Today Show” antes up centenarians to celebrate from...
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