Why just a cup of coffee for breakfast won’t do
A Harvard study showed that men who skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of having a heart attack or dying prematurely.
January 24, 2017
A Harvard study showed that men who skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of having a heart attack or dying prematurely.
In last week’s column, we wrote about “comfort food products” which some people eat when they are under stress or feel depressed. A patient told me that, after reading the column, her “comfort food” is chocolate, and she eats small chocolate bars when she’s under stress.
A few days after the new year, a middle-aged patient came back to our clinic for follow-up, around six months after her last. Based on her chart, her weight increased from 55 to 66 kg. Her body mass index (BMI), a measure to determine if one is overweight or not, increased from 24.8 to 28.9, a jump from just being marginally overweight to significantly overweight, bordering on obesity.
What a year 2016 has been, and as it slowly fades into the background, we usher in 2017 with all the optimism and confidence we can muster.
It’s two days after Christmas, and we hope everything went well with your holiday celebrations. With the season’s overflowing food and drinks come the risk of potentially life-threatening complications, like the so-called “holiday heart” syndrome.
In many parts of the country, the estimated salt intake is more than twice the allowable limits.
Sometime ago, one of my middle-aged patients, who’s been struggling with her weight, followed up with me, around 20 pounds lighter. I felt happy to see her relatively trim, and looking fit.
Many late-middle age adults and seniors are being prescribed the class of drugs called statins. These are supposed to be cholesterol-lowering drugs.
I was recently invited to a series of talks on how to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, heart failure and other types of heart diseases by drug and nondrug treatments.
Earlier this week, we lost a good friend to breast cancer. An only child, Jenny Paz was blessed with all the good things a young woman could ask for in life. She was beautiful and intelligent, had an excellent education and a very promising career in the biggest pharmaceutical company in the country.
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