When it Comes to Your Body, Where’s Your Head?
When it Comes to Your Body, Where’s Your Head? This is the question I ponder as I work with my personal training clients and the young athletes that I coach in their varied sports. I have been a trainer for 18 years. I have worked with all types of people. I have trained people just…
Public Health Mythbusters: What’s the Deal with Plastics?
Public Health Mythbusters: what’s the deal with plastics? co-authored by Nisha Putambekar and Andrea Vaught. Nisha Putambekar is a Research Associate and Andrea Vaught is a Research Assistant, working with Professor Rebecca Katz at George Washington University, Department of Health Policy – August 16, 2013 Each day we find ourselves constantly bombarded by the news,…
Caramelized Cauliflower
My husband David recently took me to “Range”, a popular restaurant in Chevy Chase whose owner and chef, Bryan Voltaggio, competed in the Iron Chef show. David had been there before with his true-foodie and close friend Dr. Mark Soberman, a thoracic surgeon who worked at Washington Hospital Center for about twenty years and now…
Nutrition and The Brain – Part 3
Over the past few weeks, you’ve read about how the brain benefits from physical activity (Part 1), from adequate sleep and healthy food (Part 2). Now in Part 3, you’ll read about exercise for the brain itself. This part includes information from Dr. Kirk Erickson’s talk at the conference and from Dr. Neal Barnard’s new…
Pregnancy: Some Reflections as Delivery Draws Near
I am not sure how relevant this topic is to the blog as I have no professional information to impart. However, as I am going in to the hospital tomorrow to give birth to my second child, I am feeling reflective. There have been several “high profile” deliveries in the past few weeks –…
Education While on Vacation, Sandy Came Home!
Last Friday my father and I drove to Franklin and Marshall college in Lancaster to pick up my son Sandy. He had finished his three week Chemistry CTY-Johns Hopkins camp. My father wanted to keep me company and be helpful just in case my car had some troubles during the two and a half hour…
Baby Shower- A Reflection on Parenthood
We started our Saturday two weeks ago as usual with an hour of boot camping with our “Lady Docs” friends. The Washington area was plagued with mid-90s temperature with the heat index in the 110s! We sweated profusely even in the first five minutes of stretching! We were delighted to be back into a cool…
The Illusion of Control: A Game We Play With Ourselves
This is my first foray into an entry in a blog. As a therapist, I do not, as a matter of practice, discuss my life or myself. However, as a member of this awesome group of women, I will attempt to make a relevant contribution. I have been thinking a lot recently about the idea…
July Health Pearls
July Health Pearls: 1. Babies Conceived in Spring More Likely to be Born Prematurely: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Study was conducted by Princeton University researchers, showing a 10% higher risk for premature births in these babies. This was thought that by early winter, at the peak of the flu season, mothers of…
Nutrition and the Brain Part 2 – Sleep and Vegetables!
Much of the conference I attended last weekend, titled Nutrition and the Brain, was about Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). There are genetic factors for AD which we’re handed at birth, like it or not, and environmental factors, which we can control. The latter include exercise, sleep and nutrition. We covered exercise in detail in Part One, so…