by Debbie Eisenstadt Mandel | Health and Fitness
The untimely death of writer Olivia Goldsmith, author of the First Wives Club, from plastic surgery to tighten the loose skin under her chin highlighted the risks associated with our narcissistic addiction to looking forever young. Is being beautiful and youthful...
by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld | Health and Fitness
Here are two basic facts you need to know about the flu virus: (1) Almost everybody should get the flu vaccine. (2) The flu is not caused by a bacterium, so antibiotics won’t make you better. Years ago the flu vaccine was recommended only for the elderly...
by Dr. Suzanne Friedman | Health and Fitness
According to an article in USA Today on January 22, 2004, “In 2003, obese or overweight Americans cost the United States about $75 billion in weight-related medical bills, and according to data taxpayers paid about $39 billion, or about $175 per taxpayer, for...
by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld | Health and Fitness
It always amazes me that so many of my patients resist receiving their annual flu shots. These are the same people who clamor for MRIs, CT scans, colonoscopies, and other time-consuming, expensive, unpleasant procedures, yet balk at getting a little jab in the arm...
by Dani Rotramel | Health and Fitness
After oxygen, water ranks next as the body's most important nutrient. Out of the near 50 essential nutrients, water is the one most essential. We have to have more of it than any other nutrient and we will die sooner for lack of it. As a nutrient, water plays a...
by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld | Health and Fitness
It always amazes me that so many of my patients resist receiving their annual flu shots. These are the same people who clamor for MRIs, CT scans, colonoscopies, and other time-consuming, expensive, unpleasant procedures, yet balk at getting a little jab in the arm...
by Dani Rotramel | Health and Fitness
After oxygen, water ranks next as the body's most important nutrient. Out of the near 50 essential nutrients, water is the one most essential. We have to have more of it than any other nutrient and we will die sooner for lack of it. As a nutrient, water plays a...
by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld | Health and Fitness
It always amazes me that so many of my patients resist receiving their annual flu shots. These are the same people who clamor for MRIs, CT scans, colonoscopies, and other time-consuming, expensive, unpleasant procedures, yet balk at getting a little jab in the arm...
by Karen Bentley | Health and Fitness
Angry people are more likely to be sick than people who are not angry. They get more heart attacks. They get more cancer, and they suffer more emotional angst, drama, and stress than others. This anger is a constant strain on the body and mind, and blocks the...
by Dani Rotramel | Health and Fitness
"Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am." Phil 4:13 (The Message) Those who are seeking to live a health-filled life and keep a fabulously fit shape most generally think of temptation as an occasion to...
by Karen Bentley | Health and Fitness
Angry people are more likely to be sick than people who are not angry. They get more heart attacks. They get more cancer, and they suffer more emotional angst, drama, and stress than others. This anger is a constant strain on the body and mind, and blocks the...
by Angela Brittain | Health and Fitness
What is your productive pace? Have you ever thought about it? How many projects and commitments can you legitimately try to tackle and balance while still remaining productive? In this day and age it is not uncommon to hear the topic of stress grace nearly...