| 08/31/2006 - Go ahead and store your fruit |
| I've always been skeptical of the claims that refrigerating fruit can decrease its nutritional value -- and with good reason, as it turns out. |
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| 08/31/2006 - SSRIs and triptans: A bad mix |
| Take two drugs that both come with major side effects, put them together, and here's what you get: one major (and very, very dangerous) illness. |
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| 08/29/2006 - Weight gain increases your risk of acid reflux |
| As if gaining weight didn't already increase your risk of health problems enough, add one more to the ever-growing list: gastroesophageal reflux disease (also called acid reflux). |
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| 08/29/2006 - Painkillers - The convenient killer |
| It's become far too easy for a patient to walk into a doctor's office, complain of back troubles, and get a prescription for their painkiller of choice. It's a "convenience" that's literally killing them. |
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| 08/25/2006 - Making your own medical decisions ... for someone else? |
| If you've ever had to make a tough medical decision (like whether to have a complicated surgery, for instance), you know that it can be almost impossible to make up your mind with certainty. |
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| 08/25/2006 - A Weighty Complication, Obesity Surgery |
| A recent federal study has shown that 40 percent of obesity surgery patients suffer from complications within six months after the surgery. And 18 percent of those patients wind up back in the hospital. |
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| 08/24/2006 - Trans Fats in Fast Food |
| Looks like one of the nation's biggest fast food chains is heeding the warnings of doctors everywhere, and cutting trans fats (though not entirely). |
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| 08/24/2006 - Bad Blood (sugar) |
| Put down that package of snack cakes and pour out your soda. Not controlling your blood sugar is an even bigger health risk than you probably realize. A recent study has predicted that half of all Americans will develop insulin resistance. |
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| 08/22/2006 - Sex Drive and Desire Could Be Genetic |
| It's probably one of the most common (and embarrassing) problems that my patients face: a slow sex drive. Oftentimes, their problem is being caused by some poor lifestyle choices or maybe an illness. |
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| 08/22/2006 - Ketek Side Effects and Dangers |
| You may remember telling you about the drug Ketek. More specifically, you may remember me telling you to stay away from it. Well, I was right. |
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| 08/17/2006 - Gut reaction |
| Even though it's not fatal, irritable bowel syndrome can make life just about unbearable for people suffering from it. |
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| 08/15/2006 - If the mood strikes |
| Name an illness, and there's probably a drug out there for it, or one just lurking in the woodworks, waiting for Big Pharma to set it loose on the public. And if they're not ready to invent a new drug, they'll just take an existing one and sell it to |
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| 08/11/2006 - A (trans) fat belly |
| By now you've heard me -- and every other doctor -- rant (more than once) about trans fats. But I don't think there's been enough explanation as to what makes them so much worse than other fats out there. |
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| 08/10/2006 - Depressing ages |
| I've seen it before: I'll have an elderly patient who's been feeling low, and then lower, and then as low as he can be. Out of nowhere, that patient is struggling with a serious case of depression, and all the physical problems that come with it, |
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| 08/08/2006 - Finding the perfect multivitamin |
| Like almost anything that comes in pill-form, vitamins and supplements have always had their critics. Some people say they're a bunch of hogwash. Others (like me) think they're vital when it comes to maintaining your health and nutrient |
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| 08/04/2006 - When bigger isn't better |
| When it comes to battling obesity, it looks like restaurants are becoming public enemy No. 1. In fact, this has become such an issue that the FDA recently launched a huge study to figure out exactly what role restaurants (both sit-down and fast-food) |
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| 08/03/2006 - The big to-do about vitamins |
| Vitamin companies don't support big lobbyists or politicians. And why would they? They don't have the big money necessary to help fund large-scale government studies. They don't make corporate America rich. So they aren't taken seriously. |
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| 08/01/2006 - Chewing the fat |
| You know what? If it takes a lawsuit (or 20) to get America eating right and to get all the fast food restaurants to cut the trans fats, then I say keep the lawyers coming... Green tea could keep you cancer-free and heart healthy... |
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