Falls

Falls

Expert: How Older Adults Can Reduce Risk of Deadly Falls Every second of the day in the United States an older adult falls, making falls the number one cause of injuries and deaths from injury for this segment of the population.According to the Centers for Disease...
Dairy free calcium foods

Dairy free calcium foods

Cutting back on dairy? You can skip cheese, milk, and yogurt and still get enough calcium.  Greens, beans, nuts, fish, and fruit are all calcium-rich and power-packed with fiber and other nutrients. Our bodies need about 1,000 mg of calcium daily.These 5 foods are...

Nuts and Fertility

Nut Consumption Could Improve Sperm Quality In a recent study, researchers sought to determine whether chronic consumption of nuts, which contain nutrients shown to possibly be associated with semen quality, could improve sperm function and quality in men who eat a...

Eating for Beautiful Skin

Diets rich in anti-oxidants and healthy fats are good for the skin. Low fat or skim milk but not full fat milk is positively associated with acne. A stronger association exists between high glycemic index diets and acne severity. Patients who followed a low glycemic...

Different Dietary Programs

People ask me what is the best diet for them. It is very difficult to decide what is the best program for everybody. The best program is the one that fits them. We spend time with each patient to determine what makes him or her eat. It could be hunger, cravings,...
PDO threads

PDO threads

It has been already almost 3 years that we have been using the PDO sutures for lifting the jowls and the neck. PDO threads are now considered the most effective way to do a face lift without surgery. There are smooth, twist and barbed sutures to be used for different...

Do You Want to Live Longer?

If you want to live longer, get treated by a woman doctor. According to to a study published By JAMA Internal Medicine,  32000 lives a year could be saved a year when female physicians were taking care of elderly patients in a hospital setting versus those taken care...

How Much Sleep Do We Need?

How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? If you often feel sluggish in the afternoon or rely on the snooze button, there is a chance that you don’t get enough sleep. Unfortunately, failure to get quality sleep can cause more severe problems than simply feeling...

Aesthetic Clarification

The best way to treat the face and the body is to use a combination therapy. Surgery is now left as a last resource. We have so many other therapies which are non invasive and have very few side side effects like some temporary soreness, bruising and swelling. Radio...

Obesity fit and fat?

Is it possible to be fat and fit Yes — but not forever, according to Prakash Deedwania, MD, of the University of California at San Francisco School of     Medicine. “Obesity is never healthy; it’s just a question of time,” Deedwania said....