How can my eyes be dry and tearing at the same time?!
Do you suffer from gritty, burning, red eyes? Do they feel dry, or sometimes excessively watery? Then you’re not alone. Estimates are that more than three million women over 50 and over 1.5 million men over 50 are affected by dry eye syndrome. The prevalence increases with age. You can see that women are twice…
Posture exercises for a proud stance
Your posture, or how you carry yourself, is very noticeable to others. Good posture can help you present yourself as confident and strong, or tired and weak. While posture is often good in childhood, it tends to worsen over time, unless you focus on exercises to maintain or improve it. Every day, we are leaning…
Should We Drink Bottled Water or Tap Water?
Poland Spring, Fiji, Aquafina, Deer Park, Dasani, Evian…the list goes on and on. Today, bottled water is becoming more and more prevalent as people turn to this option as a healthy alternative to drinking other bottled beverages, such as sodas and energy drinks. However, you may have heard concerns regarding the differences between tap water…
Heart Disease in Women
Why, you might ask, should there be a symposium on heart disease in women? When we talk about pregnancy-related issues, uterine fibroids, and other ‘female issues’, it’s obvious why discussions need to focus on females, but why would that be true for heart disease? Well, having just returned home from just such a conference, I think…
Moving Beyond the Need to be Right: Turning Conflict into Collaboration
Over the last 20 years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with individuals, couples, families and businesses on developing and utilizing effective conflict resolution strategies. I’ve seen hundreds of well-intentioned and good people get stuck in the need to be “right.” In any kind of conflict, there is by definition, what seems to be at…
Rejuvenator Bars
I am always searching for healthy snacks for my kids. That elusive food easy to take on the road, truly healthy, and which they BOTH love — and doesn’t take an hour to make. In my search for this recipe I’ve stumbled upon Rejuvenator Bars, which I adore, and my 4 year old son…
Can You Run a Marathon?
Last Sunday, the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) took place in Washington D.C. Every year, about 30,000 runners run this beautiful 26.2 mile course starting and ending by Arlington National Cemetery. It’s a moving event where runners run along with wounded warriors in their wheelchairs or numerous runners with pictures of their loved ones, who died in…
October Health Pearls
October Health News 1. Primary Care Utilization and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2013; 159(7): 437-445. Senior citizens who see a primary care physician more often (5-10 visits over an 11 year period versus 0-1 visits during the same period) are less likely to develop colorectal cancer and less likely…
How can we aim to be GREAT?
I’m at a national pulmonary meeting in Chicago. I know you don’t want the details of the lectures I’ve been to for the past 4 days, but there is one talk you would have enjoyed. Each year, for the opening session, a non-medical person is invited who can energize the attendees and provide some inspiration….
A feast at the Corcoran with Joe Yonan
Thu had just posted a great recipe for caramelized cauliflower from a beautiful cookbook, The New Jewish Table, by Todd Gray, notable chef of Equinox restaurant in Washington, DC – right in our backyard – when I received an unbelievable invitation from the Corcoran Museum. Todd Gray would be preparing his usual brunch one Sunday…