Corollary to last week’s column on how a high carbohydrate diet may be less healthy in the long term and not better than adding fats in the diet, it may be important to have an understanding of the fructose content and glycemic index of various food, including fruits and vegetables.
New data presented at the recently concluded European Society of Cardiology congress in Barcelona, Spain, suggest that we might have been barking up the wrong tree all these years regarding limiting dietary fat intake.
Sitting most hours of the day is a bane of modern society, and this so-called “sitting disease” has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and even breast and colon cancers.
Chillax! This may be the new battle cry to lose unwanted flab.
On the way to a dinner appointment last week, a patient—whom we’ve been treating for a heart ailment and who has been free of angina (chest pains due to lack of oxygen in the heart) for quite some time—was caught in a horrendous traffic jam along Edsa.
One medical condition that is not given the attention due it is high uric acid level (hyperuricemia) with gout.
After reading my column last week on the harmful effects of sleeping at night with the lights on, a patient related to me a problem with her 9-year-old son, who’s so afraid of the dark that he can’t sleep with the lights off.
Lights on or lights off? When I first heard TV host Boy Abunda ask his guests this question, I naively thought he meant sleeping the whole night with the lights on or off.
Getting yourself “inked” or tattooed does not seem to be a complicated decision. In just a few hours, you can be the proud bearer of whatever tattoo design you want. But the consequences could mean a lifetime of regret.
Let me thank all the people who participated in the nationwide blood pressure (BP) screening last month, held in collaboration with the Department of Health (DOH), which involved all its provincial health facilities in the country, as well as the Philippine Society of Hypertension, Philippine Heart Association and Philippine College of Physicians.
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