Losing the Hair-Loss Battle?
Have you been noticing the part on your scalp getting wider? Are you constantly pulling your hair out of the shower drain? Seeing more hair on your brush than on your head? Feeling less and less hair in your ponytail? Hair loss doesn’t only affect men. By age 70, close to 40 percent of women experience female-pattern [...]
Fat Chance
A CDC analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey for 1999-2008 has revealed that a higher percentage of Americans are more obese today, than ever on record. In fact, while 13 percent of adults were obese in the early 1960s, more than 30 percent were by 1999. And the numbers are [...]
Michael Douglas, Oral Cancer, and the Growing Threat of HPV
When Michael Douglas announced on The David Letterman Show that he has throat cancer recently, concern and support poured out from fans around the world. Beyond the initial surprise of a well-known and talented actor being stricken with this insidious disease, a surge of interest followed with the questions of what, why and where this [...]
Mighty Mushrooms
Recently, a patient asked what nutritional value mushrooms had to offer. It’s a question I get asked often so I’m sharing our conversation here today! First and foremost, mushrooms offer the one-two punch of flavor and filler. In other words, mushrooms have the ability to add volume to a dish with few calories and nominal [...]
Back Pain Post: Upside Down
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