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Our ABC station (KEYT, and former CNN editor Shirin Rafaee) asked me about Dr Oz’ 4 Secret Reasons Women Are Exhausted (previously, we spoke about belly fat). Here they are: 1. Carb Coma: a catchy way to sum up the sharp drop in blood sugar and shunting of blood [...]
To build a culture of health, develop policy, engage stakeholders, focus on healthy lifestyle changes, recognize success and measure impact is a long, worthwhile, profitable journey. So, it’s best tackled in bite sized portions. There are several great places to look. The National Business [...]
No one writes down on my medical practice questionnaires that they eat because they are stressed. People say that they eat for a reward, or are lonely or bored, or are happy or angry or frustrated, or because they want to. Scientists who study workplace health group say those [...]
One of the most productive and fun seminars I’ve given took place just two weeks ago, here in Santa Barbara, in a nearby rented living room: house call! A group of guys from the Midwest, all members of an executive professional organization, called me a few weeks ahead of [...]
I am getting more calls about managing stress among employees. Thoughts impact physiology in about 1/18th second, so it’s worth preparing for them. What many companies, now asking employees to do with more with less, don’t know is that stress can be measured, reduced and managed. And that [...]
Chronic stress affects productivity and the bottom line. It also increases and worsens heart disease, stroke, impotence, hypertension, back problems and depression. Obesity and flu go up too. Stress can kill…or at least injure. It causes rigidity and diminishes the ability to help others. [...]
The WSJ has a front page piece about food-drug interactions, and how eating the wrong healthy foods–olive oil, fruits, vegetables–can interact with prescription drugs. Not a word about how eating the wrong, unhealthful foods can cause the need for those drugs and their prescription to [...]
The Lancet study finding that ARBs (Angiotensin Receptor Blockers), commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney disease actually result in more cancer, especially lung cancer, is alarming. But so would be the sound of people stopping their meds this moment because of [...]