Month: March 2014

My brother just shared this great and inspirational letter by Kurt Vonnegut to some youngsters in a 5th Grade class in New York. We should all try what he suggests>>>>>>LINK HERE!!!  

I was born in the era of SNL (Saturday Night Live)…the late-night sketch comedy show….so this acronym is well known to me, but a lesser know acronym more generally is WNL.  It’s just as famous….but only in the world of medicine. What is WNL?  It stands for ‘Within Normal Limits’, and it is a commonly …

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Below is a email from a patient touted his good health since beginning a stronger exercise regimen.  He not only made the point that he felt better, but that he feels it prevents him from getting run-of-the mill infections, a particularly nice effect this time of year when the ‘cold season’ is heavy.  He bolstered …

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Physical activity is the #1 Key to health….just check out THE KEYS, and you’ll find it right there at the top.   You can take inactivity to a new high (or should I say low), and be so inactive that you actually get  SITTING DISEASE. We are sitting too much and this is making us …

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Could it be that we have it all wrong about our ‘slower’ brains as we age.  These German researchers suggest so, explaining that older brains take longer to process information because they have so much information stored from past experience, that it takes more time to sift through this data. Take heart…as we age….we all …

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Dave Berry is among the best comedy writers in the new these days and he is my hero for his piece on his colonoscopy. Here is his latest WSJ comment on his upbringing being a ‘man’. Read it HERE<<<<<

As most of you know, I am a fan of fat and protein in the diet at the expense of starches.  Atkins Diet and Paleo seem more in-tune with our evolution than the modern grain-focused fare. This NPR piece on regular milk helping maintain proper weight, as opposed to skim milk, is another piece in …

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Doctor Doug; Do you have a recommended daily target level for carbs that I can use as a guideline while trying to reduce them? M.A. M.A. I asked my friend, Debbie Landau-West, for your comments.  Here is the reply from Debbie Landau-West, a nutritionist and dietitian I’ve known for 30 years, and who is the …

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