“Mass social media is a crock. It is an inherent contradiction. This is why I like LinkedIn more than Facebook. It has a special purpose and therefore doesn’t feel like a time waster. FWIW, I predict the next huge win in social media will be in health care.” —Rich Karlgaard (Forbes.com) writing in WSJ […]
Category: Healthy Living
Let’s talk about eating fat. And being smart. Or as my refined readers say…having good cognitive function. Seriously, if you are a cyclist, runner, or triathlete the next most important thing after muscular endurance and strength is brainpower. And the brain isn’t just important for filling time during those long intervals when deceleration incidents force […]
Let’s talk about the newest cholesterol myth gone busted. I can hardly write; I’m so giddy. That’s what happens to me when simplicity and obviousness triumphs over complicated testing that adds nothing to (or even clouds) the big picture. They come to my office with pages of data dissecting the particle sizes and sub-fractions of […]
What could competitive athletes teach a group of heart rhythm specialists? Cyclists, runners and yes, even triathletes, know something that we wizards too often forget. I’ll tell you what it is in good time. Keep reading. I just returned from a giant gathering of heart rhythm doctors. It was, as all national meetings are, an […]
I’m sorry. The news was really bad today. I wished it were better. (Well, maybe I don’t.) The easy-answer people were denied again. Punched in the gut, were they. The notion that a pill can do what exercise does remains a fantasy. Another member of the group of drugs that boost HDL, called CETP inhibitors, […]
Tonight, in the true spirit of cycling blogs, I will tell you a story. (We definitely need to lighten things up a bit.) Consider yourself warned. It is a saga of a cat-like mountain biker, who is also a heart specialist and perhaps a less than ideal patient. But first, you may be wondering why […]
I like positive thinking. Optimism helps keep inflammation at bay. You can’t be a heart doctor and think problems are hopeless or that bad outcomes will occur. But…I have to tell you, obesity and its flume of chronic diseases makes it tough to stay upbeat. As an office doctor, obesity frustrates; as an internationalist, working […]
Mondays are the toughest. For you too? I can’t seem to stop. That’s the problem. It’s not the starting; it’s pushing away from the table. Do you talk to yourself? Do you ask yourself whether that extra bag of chips, M & M’s or cookie will help or hurt you? Fifteen minutes after eating that […]
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For the health-inclined and for those who celebrate mastery of the obvious as the key ingredient of wellness, the story of public health guru, Dr. Lester Breslow, shines like a beacon. As reported this weekend in the NYTimes, the scientist that linked healthy habits to living longer dies (at home) at age 97. Dr. Breslow’s […]
I like to tell my patients that good health, at its root, comes from just three things: good movement, good food, and good sleep. At least these are the three they can control. Good luck and good genes are beyond our control. On our Easter: The world looks and feels like a different place after […]
It’s 2012 already. Time flies; doesn’t it? It seems like just yesterday when… I started this business more than two decades ago. A time when cell phones hadn’t even graced James Bond movies; we got up to change the channel on TV and the world health concern of the moment was a Hunger Games-like scenario […]