A European study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Disease studied 606 participants with moderate-severe osteoarthritis of the knees. Participants received either combination chondroitin sulfate 400mg and glucosamine hydrochloride 500mg three times a day or Celebrex 200 mg a day for 6 months. Both groups...
The National Sleep Foundation has made recommendations for sleep duration for various age groups based on a literature review by an expert panel. The following recommendations on sleep durations for healthy people without sleep disorders were published in Sleep Health: Newborns: 14–17 hours a day (previous recommendation:...
From a weight loss perspective, eating while distracted is a common way to sabotage ourselves. Watching TV is one of the worst forms of distraction and has many negative compound effects on our weight. Watching TV can lead to eating without thought. In his book Mindless Eating, Brain Wansink...
The more we hear, read, or see a message, the more we connect with it. Think about Coca-Cola or Apple and the millions of dollars they spend to place their message in front of us. They understand that the key is to repeat the message...
There's no place like home - for the Holidays. Thank you for your support. From my family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas! ...
For many people holiday seasons are a difficult time. Many unfortunately struggle with self worth and feelings of isolation. The holidays are only a reminder of that. Sometimes the church contributes to that by only focusing on the "horrible nature" of mankind. Mankind does have...
Dietary changes are the primary way we lose weight. Exercise will help us keep weight off, but exercise is not as helpful to actually lose weight initially. Initial general concepts for weight loss are as follows: First realize that deprivation diets don’t work. Our bodies, our brain, and...
Most of us have been frustrated with the inability/difficulty to lose weight at sometime in our life. We try fad diets only to see our weight yo-yo. It's hard to find trustworthy information. In addition to that it seems like we were doing fine one day...
This is one of my previous posts that was printed in the December issue of Tyler Today. (Click on the article to read it.) ...
Should I get or should I not get the flu vaccine is often the question. Even if the vaccine is less than ideal, it still will decrease the severity of the flu. The question then becomes, which vaccine should I get, the Trivalent or the...