Monthly Archives: February 2023

There is an expression almost all of has have heard ort used: “Going With Your GUT Reaction”.  Here is the definition of this term:  a reaction to a situation derived from a person’s instinct and experience. Let’s focus on food and/or drinks that derail our weight loss efforts such as high carbohydrate, high sugar and […]

This has been a weird winter.  I do not believe we have had one accumulating snow to date.  As I am writing this entry, the temperature hit 80 degrees yesterday.  Crazy!  I guess there is truly something going on with Global Warming. I do remember lots more snowy winters when I was growing up in […]

By a show of hands, how many of you out there have never said to someone: “LEAVE ME ALONE”?    I do not see any hands raised.  When we hit our wits’ end with our children, parents, siblings, friends, co-workers or others and feel like not being barraged anymore, we will use that emphatic statement: […]

There are 24 hours in a day.  If we take a step back and break down these 24 hours, the following activities need to be accounted for: Sleep: Although this varies from 5 hours to 9 hours a night of required sleep, with most people falling into the 7-8 hours range  Work:  Based on the […]

When a person goes into the doctor’s office for a general checkup LOTS of body “stuff” will be checked including: Blood pressure Pulse Laboratory blood tests including glucose levels, liver enzymes, renal function Weight Most people that do incorporate routine doctor office-based checkups will do this once a year but some will go only every […]

Concerning weight control, aging changes LOTS.  If we turned the clock back 20 years or more, many of us (not all) could get away with the following and still be able to maintain a weight we were happy with: Eat higher quantities of foods Consume much more alcohol Not count portions of carbs and sugar-containing […]

Numerous times when we see patients that do not lose or even gain weight the preceding week we hear the following dissection/explanation of why weight loss did not occur: “I had a very stressful week”.  Taking a step back and analyzing the concept of stress causing weight gain:  Stress itself does not cause weight gain […]

I am writing this entry on the day before the Superbowl game between the Eagles and Chiefs.  Before we launch into the weight control message for today, I am going to give the “Posner Prediction”:  Eagles 31  Chiefs 20.  (This was very painful for me to predict as a Giants’ fan because the last team […]

Hearing loss is often associated with increasing age.  For those of you with family members or friends with hearing issues, this can be very frustrating for not just the person experiencing the hearing problem but also the people around him/her that needs to raise their voices to be understood.  Heating aids can certainly help the […]

We have all heard the expression “Creatures of Habit” as this refers to the tendency for people to engage in behavioral patterns that are repetitive in nature.  We like to see ourselves as free-willed, conscious beings, self-governing and set apart from other animals by our capacity for reasoning. Yet watch people closely and you find […]