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(#4) Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan : Vegetables

What can I eat to get a ton of vitamins and phyonutrients, a load of fiber to clean out my bowels (lovely image), anti-oxidants and cancer killing compounds, eat to my hearts content without fear of gaining weight, and keep my blood sugar low? All that and more comes from good ol’ fashion vegetables.  As I go through this holiday season I rely heavily on veggies to keep me on track. I can eat... [Read more]

(#3) Aerobic Exercise & Gorilla Training

So what is exercise? A deceptively simple question but an important issue to discuss in light of our mission this holiday season. Exercise comes in a hundred different flavors but for ease of discussion lets divide it into aerobic exercise versus resistance training. I can tell you that every scientific study ever done on the topic of exercise has concluded that combinations of both types of exercise... [Read more]

(#2) Change Your Mind, Change Your Shape

As I set my sights on upcoming holiday treats I started earning some credit in the gym today. Remember that the heart of this plan is that intense sugary holiday treats must be offset with intense exercise. The reason is simple. When you go for a moderate paced walk you may consider that exercise but you are not changing your fitness level. It’s only when you push into your anaerobic threshold that... [Read more]

Eat Christmas Cookies . . . Lose Weight

Hey . . . what happened? I turn around and magically there are Christmas bells in my ear. Seems to creep up on me every year without warning. You know those Christmas cookies, pies and cakes are coming and for many of us it means loosening the belt a notch or two. Well I want to challenge you to a better option. For those of you that read my Christmas Challenge last year you know where I am headed.... [Read more]

Brand name vs. generic drugs

One of our astute HAE readers recently asked my opinion about brand named vs. generic drugs after a story he had seen in the news. It’s come up before, so I wanted to discuss it with everyone. Theoretically there shouldn't be a great difference in brand name vs. generic but in actual practice this can present a problem for many patients. When a generic is made the active chemical or drug compound... [Read more]

Foods that Fight for Sight

Eyes are a funny thing. They may be windows to the soul, but for some of us they seem to need a cleaning more often than they used to. I’ve often heard people tell me their eyes seemed to start weakening all at once. My sister told me her vision seemed to jump off a cliff on her 40th birthday. Fuzzy text, squinting, needing longer arms to see fine print may seem an inevitable sign of aging, but does... [Read more]