If you are a middle-aged woman and you find yourself dealing with food cravings, welcome to the club.  Statistics tell us that just about 100% of women report regular food cravings.  And unlike men, you may also be experiencing sleep difficulties and seasonal depressions.  Ladies, it’s not just that you have different hormones than men [...]

It is the sound that can make the toughest men moan and the calmest women weep. But the whine of the dentist’s drill could soon be silenced for good, according to researchers. Scientists believe they have found the secret of a ‘completely painless’ filling by identifying a material which repairs decaying teeth – with no need [...]

Hospitals are speeding up their response times when treating heart attack patients. New research shows the average waiting time for heart attack patients once they reach the hospital was 64 minutes last year. In 2005, the average response time was 96 minutes. The dramatic decrease comes after the government and several private groups provided research on response time [...]

(Last week, we explored our poor eating habits and the some of the options available to us for improving our diets and our overall health. That discussion continues.)  Last, but certainly far from least on the list of foods to avoid is trans fats.  I don’t know if anything man-made, as opposed to grown or raised, [...]

Food… Everyone’s favorite topic.  Without it, we cannot sustain basic life functions.  It is our primary source of nutrition, vitamins and minerals.  It gives us energy to perform our daily tasks and to go from place to place.  It certainly tastes good, so we make a bracha on it.   Yet for many people, food is [...]

It all makes sense.  Sugar is the enemy!  It is high in calories and short on nutrition.  And in this generation of type two diabetes, who wants the white powdery stuff around anyway?  The perfect solution would be to find a substitute for sugar and use it to sweeten beverages, desserts, yogurts and puddings.  It [...]

The manufacturer of Tylenol announced new, lower dosing instructions for the painkiller on Thursday in an effort to reduce accidental overdose from acetaminophen, the product’s active ingredient. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a division of Johnson & Johnson, is recommending the maximum dosage for extra strength Tylenol be lowered to six pills – or a total of 3,000 [...]

Someone recently asked me if it is really so terrible to be overweight.  This person mentioned her grandmother, who live to age 91 and was always pudgy.  And so I got to thinking about her question.  And the bottom line is that it is hard to argue with statistics all of which indicate that for [...]

Chaim is 46 years old and goes to see his doctor for his yearly physical examination.  After checking him thoroughly and doing standard blood work, we find that Chaim has blood pressure of 144/92 and his cholesterol, particularly his LDL (the bad stuff) is borderline high.  The physician prescribes drugs to lower his blood pressure [...]

The two most common excuses people give for not exercising and taking care of their general health are lack of time, and finances. In previous articles, I have addressed the time issue, but I would like to add the following: If you don’t make the time to exercise, you won’t have much time to do [...]