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  • Learn the Difference Between Painful Periods, Endometriosis and IBS

    If you have pain in your pelvic area, it may be difficult to know what’s causing your discomfort. Maybe you feel nauseous or constipated, or have diarrhea. You may have mild to severe cramping during your period. Or perhaps you have pain during intercourse or during a bowel movement. These symptoms can range from inconvenient to incapacitating, and the causes can vary as well.

  • Is Sugar Slowing Your Weight Loss?

    Sugar—it’s that sweet flavor that we all crave from time to time.

  • Is Weight-Loss Surgery Right for Me?

    If you are obese, and diet and exercise haven’t helped you reach a healthy weight, weight-loss surgery may be an option. While this may seem like a quick fix, it’s far from it. Not only is bariatric surgery a complex medical procedure, but after the surgery, you must adjust how you eat and commit to maintaining those changes for your lifetime. 

  • Is Late-Night Smartphone Use Lowering Your Sperm Count?

    It’s a half-hour before bedtime and you’re scrolling through your smartphone. You check the outside security cameras, ensure the garage door is closed, check on locked doors, enable your alarm and dim the lights in the kids’ rooms … doing it all through the apps on your cell phone. In between, you scroll a few more times through your social media feeds. The routine is familiar for many, but this nightly habit may have unintended consequences for male fertility. 

  • Want to Know If You’ve Gained Weight? All You Need is a Piece of String

    Many of us have smartphones laden with fitness apps, many of which now count your calories and your steps, track your water intake, and tell you your BMI with the click of a button. We even have special synchronizing $200 scales that detail your heart rate and body fat percentage.

  • Which Weight Loss Surgery is Right for You?

    It can be incredibly difficult to lose weight, even with proper diet and exercise.

  • Can Nonsmokers Get Lung Cancer? The Answer Is Yes

    Here’s an alarming statistic: While 80 percent of the cases we see in our clinic stem from those who have a history of smoking cigarettes, it might surprise a lot of people to know that the other 20 percent have never smoked cigarettes or used any form of tobacco in their lives. That amounts to about 70,000 cases of the 225,000 diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018.

  • The Questions a Nutritionist Hears the Most (And My Answers)

    It is well documented that fruits and vegetables are good for you, and in any form. But, as a nutritionist, the questions I’m asked the most have to do with organic produce. These are the most common ones I have received, along with my answers.

  • What Is Endobariatrics? How To Lose Weight Without Traditional Surgery

     

  • Study: Just One Hour of Exercise May Lower Depression Risk

    We all know that exercise is good for the body and for heart health, but now a recent study indicates exercise also could have a positive effect on the risk for depression.