Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with?” What about, “Birds of a feather flock together?” Some of the best advice my parents gave me, and I passed on to my children, was to...
Drink 1 glass of water before eating you meal. One study found that those who sipped 2 cups of tap water 30 minutes before their main meals lost an average of about 3 pounds more weight over a 12-week period than those who were...
Stress can have numerous deleterious effects on our health. Stress itself is not the problem. How we cope and handle the stress is. One way of reducing the effects of stress on our body and psyche is to get a regular massage. If you have...
“Patients don’t understand that when you gain weight, your body will always want to go back.” Dr. Ken Fujioka Dr. Fujioka has dedicated his career to the study and treatment of obesity. I had the fortunate opportunity to meet Dr. Fujioka while he was speaking in...
Many people believe that once you become older there is no point in exercising. The unfortunate truth is that after 40 muscle mass can decrease 1% per year. The loss tends to get even worse after 50. Several things contribute to that including decreased hormone...
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A patient recently came into the office perplexed about why he was not losing weight. He said that he had been walking for 30 minutes a day three times a week for the last few weeks and had not lost a pound. Our scales in...