The summer months are a time for us to have some fun in the sun, but it’s also a season that may pose some risk to patients trying to lose weight. Between vacations, holiday barbecues, and a generally slower pace of life, patients may be tempted to relax their weight loss efforts. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and there are many ways patients can enjoy summer and still remain on track....
Sometimes clinical research studies can seem really far out there, like the one that attached long weighted sticks to the rear ends of chickens to gain insight into how dinosaurs walked the earth. Or hilariously obvious, like the Journal of American Medicine’s Study shows a beneficial effect of electric fans in extreme heat and humidity....
Cosmetic services apparently aren’t only for the rich and famous anymore. In the US, over 14 million procedures were conducted in 2016. And according to latest estimates, the market is expected to top $27 billion by the year 2019....
Summer is winding down and your children are gearing up for school. The turn of the season is a new beginning. Why wait until New Year’s to think about losing weight when you can start now? Fall is a time of change new season, new school year, and even a new lifestyle. Listen to our new podcast episode on Back to School Weight Loss and Creating a Healthy Home Environment....
Chronic depression is a sly condition. If you suffer from it, you probably can’t pinpoint when it first had you in its grip. It just crept up on you until you realized you needed to do something to lift the weight holding you down....
Do you know Tom Petty’s song where he says, the waiting is the hardest part When it comes to losing weight and living a healthier lifestyle, a more apt lyric might be the starting is the hardest part....
If you search on YouTube for baby’s first chocolate, you will find thousands of videos showing the same kind of general reaction that goes something like this?...
When the Beatles traveled to India in 1968, it wasn’t to perform Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Ob-La-Do, Ob-La-Da, or any of their other massive hits for an Eastern audience. In fact, it was they who played the role of audience to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the creator of Transcendental Meditation....
Jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treaters, creative costumes, fall weather. There is a lot to love about the festive holiday, but it’s not exactly weight loss friendly. Americans purchase about 600 million pounds of candy on Halloween, according to the National Confectioners Association. But you can have a healthy Halloween and still have fun. Get in the holiday spirit and stick to your weight loss plan by following my six simple tips....
Sixty-three million! That’s how many 2017 New Year’s resolution searches were conducted on how to get healthy. This made it the most popular New Year’s resolution category by far, beating its next closest rival get organized by almost double. Among the multiple ways to get healthy, losing weight was far and away the most popular resolution....