“We become what we think about.” — Earl Nightingale
I don’t know about you, but I could stand to lose a few pounds — well honestly, quite a few. The dilemma is which diet to choose. There are so many to choose from, and they’re all touted as the miracle way to lose weight and stay healthy.
Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit,” states that as making the bed each morning becomes a habit it kicks off a chain of good decisions throughout the day and gives a person a sense of being in charge and establishing order.
It may seem crazy, but in some clinical trials volunteers are purposely infected with diseases like the flu, cholera and malaria. These types of trials are referred to as challenge studies.
It’s documented that wearing a mask helps the mask wearer from being exposed to COVID-19. But there are some diseases that are spread by eating or drinking.
An estimated 88 million — that's more than 1 in 3 adults — have prediabetes, and more than 84 percent of them don't even know it.
The coronavirus pandemic rages on. Unfortunately, so do the conspiracy theories. Some people say it was a planned release by a Chinese research lab in Wuhan; some say Bill Gates is using the virus to vaccinate everyone in the world; and others say the virus spread as result of the new 5G wir…
As I struggle to maintain seiza (traditional Japanese style of sitting) and eat comfortably from the ground-level table, my attention is refocused on the 87-year-old man in front of me. Despite having double cancer of the stomach and lung, he dances jovially with his compatriots, all of whom…
There are some common expressions about “routines.” Expressions such as, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” or “stuck in a rut” come to mind.
An estimated 32.4 million American adults still smoke cigarettes, and smoking remains the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the world.
I remember many years ago when speech recognition software was introduced. It was astounding. Spoken words appeared on your computer screen without the assistance of a keyboard. This was an amazing innovation at the time.
Coastal Health & Wellness is offering free application assistance for the 2021 Health Insurance Marketplace, which is in open enrollment through Dec. 15.
Last weekend, I participated in the Texas Academy of Family Practice annual virtual conference and saw a presentation on COVID and mental health. It was given by Katherine Buck, Ph.D., and Dr. Grant Fowler, from John Peter Smith Hospital. I will share part of their information today.
A frequent question we get is when will children be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
It has been previously reported there’s an increasing problem in children developing myopia (nearsightedness or the ability to see up close but not far away).
We know that lead is a dangerous metal that accumulates in the body, and that it's particularly harmful to the young. Yet 800 years ago, so much lead was mined that traces of the toxic metal have been found in the bodies of medieval farmers and miners. A new study of an ice core from a Swiss…
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