Last week’s column examined the role that exercise can play in reducing and possibly eliminating the need for statins and blood pressure medication. We also discussed the positive effects of exercise for diabetics. This week, we will discuss the benefits of exercise vis-à-vis high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. High Blood Pressure High Blood [...]
Exercise is Medicine is an initiative launched on Nov. 5, 2007 by the American College of Sports Medicine that calls for physical activity and exercise to be standard parts of disease prevention and medical treatment. It urges healthcare providers to assess and review patients’ physical activity programs at every visit, with office visits that conclude [...]
Isn’t it a wonderful custom that we have? We take a small shot of whisky, say “L’Chaim” and swig it down. According to Rabbi Shraga Simmons of Aish HaTorah, the custom of saying "L’Chaim" when drinking wine is first mentioned in "Machzor Vitri" 80, s.v. "Shnayim." At one time, they used to give wine to [...]
When it comes to health, I like to emphasize the positives of being healthy. There are so many things we can and should do to enhance our health and ultimately the quality of our lives. We know what they are—exercising, eating the right foods, staying happy and stress free, getting outdoors and getting some sunshine [...]
Memories! We all have them. Some are very pleasant and some may be not so pleasant, but our brains were made to remember. Often times, you might be sitting around reminiscing about things from your childhood, 40 or 50 years ago. Sometimes, we are simply going over something we just heard in a shiur 30 [...]
This three-part article has general ideas about how to treat diabetes. These ideas do not take the place of getting an individualized food and exercise plan or seeing your doctor. In part one and two of this article, we discussed different types of diabetes, how you get type 2 diabetes and how type 2 diabetes can cause [...]
This three-part article has general ideas about how to treat diabetes. These ideas do not take the place of getting an individualized food and exercise plan or seeing your doctor. In part one of this article, we discussed different types of diabetes, how you get type 2 diabetes and type 2 diabetes can cause a host [...]
Yocheved came to me last year with sleeping issues and restlessness while awake. She was having problems socially and was irritable often. After ruling out sleep apnea as a potential cause (overweight people are prone to that), I sent her for psychiatric evaluation. The diagnosis was Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a [...]
There has been a lot of literature in the last 14 years about the positive effects of exercise, even in people who are overweight. Sighting many of these studies, I often encourage people who are having problems dropping weight by explaining to them how much they are improving their health and well-being by exercising, even [...]
The Days of Awe are behind us and we have moved out of the Sukkah and back into our homes. Our schedules are getting back to normal. The kids are back in school and we are back at work or learning. We have finished a period of three weeks of an over-abundance of food and [...]
