What Does Genetics Have to Do With It?

Does genetics count? I ate lunch today with a gentleman, and somehow his conversation got around to the association of cholesterol in your blood and the danger of having a heart attack or stroke. (He even mentioned the association of erectile dysfunction with cholesterol but stated the main question centered on heart attacks.) “My genes […]

Are You Listening to Your Food?

If someone told you that you have over a fifty-fifty chance of dying from something you could prevent, would you take the necessary actions to prevent it happening? If you were standing in the middle of the road and an 18-wheel truck was coming down the hill toward you, would you get out of the […]

There are always two sides of a coin…

Do your cholesterol numbers really matter all that much? Every five years the U.S. Department of Health does a review of dietary guidelines the government provides to help Americans live healthier lives. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recently made a report concerning fat. Some news articles reported that a low fat diet wasn’t necessarily healthy. […]

Work Together for Success!

I read in today’s news that someone exercises more consistently if their spouse exercises also. How important is it to have an accountability partner, or group? Would you eat more properly if you were a member of a five-person group who keep everyone accountable for what they had for lunch? Would you be less likely […]

What is Your Goal?

How do you want to live out the rest of your life? How do you want to live out this next year? And probably the most important question is: how do you want to live out the rest of today? Have you ever written a goal on a post-um note and stuck it on your […]

Ten Minutes Can Change Your Life

Everybody loves secrets. I want to introduce you to a dynamic secret of self control that I told many of my patient. It not only works for quitting smoking, but it will allow you to be successful in controlling your weight, your eating habits, as well as your arterial blockage. This factor makes it possible […]

Do you want to prevent something happening to you?

Are you where you want to be from a health standpoint? Would you like to turn your physiological clock back 7-12 years. Would you like to be at your ideal weight and sustain it for the rest of your life? Do you want to prevent something happening to you that will kill over half of […]

Did Your Doctor Tell You….

Almost half of everybody over the age of 45 is on a medication to lower their cholesterol. This says a lot about the most significant health problem we have in America. It is shown statistically that such medication helps prevent heart attacks and strokes because it lowers the “lethal” LDL cholesterol in your blood. So, […]

Should I Be Taking Aspirin?

Do you take an aspirin a day to prevent a heat attack? Do you know someone who does? Nearly a third of middle-aged Americans regularly take a baby aspirin in hope of preventing a heart attack or stroke.  Some doctors are reporting that they are stopping more patients from taking aspirin than they are starting […]

A False Sense of Security

So many times you actually believe you are doing great things to develop quality into your life. Yet, the pill you are taking or the special type food you are eating is having minimal effect on your health. You are made to believe you are shooting elephants but actually you are only killing gnats. The […]