The winter holidays tend to be packed with food-filled celebrations, including many treats that only appear once a year. It can be tricky, at best, to keep eating healthfully. In fact, the National Institutes of Health notesthat Americans tend to…
Yearly Archives: 2012
How to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Posted in eating well, food, gaining weight, healthy choices, holidays, indulging, new year, portion control, season, Thanksgiving
Move More, Live Longer
Another study has confirmed that being active can add years to your life. This particular study, published Tuesday in PLOS Medicine, looked at leisure-time physical activity, which means recreational exercise as opposed to activities like taking the stairs or running…
Multivitamins: To Take, or Not to Take?
My observant brother texted me this week asking what is the deal with multivitamins: Following a barrage of negative studies in the last few years suggesting that they may not provide any health benefit, and may even increase risk of…
Another Reason to Get up and Move!
A new study in the American Journal of Kidney Disease has linked being a couch potato to increased risk of chronic kidney disease. Prolonged sitting also boosts your risk of developing high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other blood…
Why Diet Matters More than Exercise for Weight Loss
If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s important to eat less and move more, but it’s not a 50-50 equation—you’ll drop more pounds by paying closer attention to your diet than you will by increasing your exercise. That’s partly because…
Posted in active, cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, eating well, exercise, healthy choices, weight loss
For Those of Us Who Haven’t Gone to Cooking School…
I recently spoke with Sybil Kramer, MD, an endocrinologist in private practice in Melrose, MA, about the most common struggle facing her patients with diabetes: how to prepare healthy foods, whether they are trying to make favorite dishes lighter or…
Vitamin D and Your Immune System
Every now and then, I get to interview an expert who is so passionate about his or her work that the enthusiasm is infectious. That was certainly the case with John S. Adams, a professor at David Geffen School of…
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Dan and I recently returned from a trip to St. Louis to visit our families, and several times while we were there and after we got back I was reminded of how beneficial a vacation can be. The change of…
The Dirty Dozen
Each year the Environmental Working Group releases an updated Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which includes a list of the Dirty Dozen (the twelve fruits and vegetables most likely to be contaminated by pesticide residue) and the Clean Fifteen…
The Nutritional Downside of Prescription Drugs
For today’s post, I’m pulling an article out of the archives. A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that statins—widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs—are linked to fatigue, particularly during exercise. In the study, women were more likely to…
Posted in antibiotics, antidepressant, blood pressure, CoQ10, diabetes, drugs, medication, medicine, nutrition, prescription
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