The Commandments of Heart Health
The 34 Commandments A few years ago Moses went up to Mount Sinai and came back with commandments written on stone tablets. Pretty impressive that the rules to govern human…
Step 10: Medicines
Magic Bullets and BB Guns Aspirin to Prevent a Heart Attack?Once upon a time in California, long before the Idaho Realtor of the Year became the governor, there was a…
Step 5: Exercise
Just Move It Too Many Of Us Miss Out on Exercise BenefitsExercise causes your skin to flush, your heart to race, you to get sweaty and feel short of breath.…
Step 3: Don’t smoke
Don't Smoke . . . Anything Smoking is AddictiveAs an internal medicine resident at Wake Forest University, I went outside the hospital to eat lunch. What I saw has never…
Olive Oil
Oil From Really Ugly Trees So Doc, are there any health benefits to olive oil? Not if you were a bus driver near Athens, Greece in October 1976. This unnamed man…
Salt
Eat Just a Grain of Salt Is salt bad for you? It was for Judas Iscariot. If you look closely at Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper,” Judas has knocked over…
Fried Foods
Please tell me French Fries are OK! Is fast food okay? I love me some french fries.French fries are part of a "Western diet." Cool. A diet like how they…