How nutritionally rational is it when one eats all the calories one can ingest in a buffet lunch, but sheepishly requests for artificial sweetener from the waiter for one’s iced
Colleagues sometimes find us odd when we advise our heart patients to listen to classical music, specifically Mozart’s sonatas, for 20 minutes to half an hour daily. We tell them
We recently diagnosed a newly retired teacher with Parkinson’s disease or PD, and referred him to the neurologist (brain and nervous system specialist) in our group. He presented with tremors
The Philippine Society of Hypertension (PSH), headed by Dr. Deborah Ignacia Ona, and the Philippine Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society (PLAS), headed by Dr. Lourdes Ella Santos, held a joint annual
A middle-age patient who read last week’s column on the health benefits of coffee asked us if the same could be true for chocolates. The patient has a sweet tooth
A patient who drinks up to eight cups of brewed coffee daily asked us if it’s bad for his health. Our quick reply was that, even good things, taken in
Sometime ago, a 51-year-old housewife whom we’ve been treating for several years for high blood pressure, complained of an increasing frequency of bothersome symptoms which we attributed to her menopausal
A patient who read our column last week on the health hazards of heavily processed foods told us that indulging in these unhealthy foods is a form of addiction akin
A few months ago, we admitted a patient in his late 50s—a widower who was living by himself—who consulted us for progressive shortness of breath even with mild physical exertion.
(First of two parts) Over lunch last week, we had an interesting chat with Dr. Angel Araneta, a diabetes expert based in Bacolod City. Angel and wife Mariz came to
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