My blog friends saw it here first. My Dr. Google Post has been syndicated. Please take the time to visit KevinMD.com and comment and like me. Here’s my skeptical face, “You want to feature my little post? Really? Well ok if it makes the world a better place.” Actually I said, “Yes, wow, yes.” Or…
Category: Let’s Be Honest
Leave Doctor Google in the Waiting Room – 10 Ways that the Internet Interferes With Your Healthcare
Please Leave Doctor Google* In The Waiting Room – 10 ways That Internet Diagnosing Interferes With Your Healthcare. 1) Doctor Google doesn’t know you: can’t see you, can’t hear your story, can’t smell you, and can’t touch you. It doesn’t have intuition or gut feelings about you.
What’s For Dinner Doc is 1 Year Old
What’s For Dinner Doc is one year old today. I started my blog as a place to talk about women’s health but it has evolved into so much more than I could have envisioned. Looking back, I have come to realize that a blog writes itself. It finds it’s voice and it takes you, the…
New Year’s Resolution: Wishing For Change Is Not a Plan
Hope is not a plan. Turn your wish into a plan. What really matters to you in 2015 and what’s your plan? Try this exercise. Start by writing down a resolution, which is really just a glorified wish. Now write down a concrete plan to make it happen. If the resolution appears to be too…
Top 10 Reasons Not To Workout: Let’s be Honest
1) The cute outfit that you bought for your 2014 New Years Resolution: Gym Comeback, still has the tags on. Besides it barely fit in January and it certainly doesn’t fit now. Ouch. 2) Your Zumba class is having a “Bring your cat to class day”, and everyone knows that you can’t herd cats to…
December 16, Refocusing, Let’s Be Honest
Let’s Be Honest Keeping our goals in mind is difficult when we are being bombarded with stress. Perhaps you are feeling a “spending hangover”, you haven’t been getting enough sleep, you are planning too many events, your year-end chores at work are overwhelming or you are just plain exhausted from the hub bub of the…
Healthy Strategies For Eating Out, Let’s Be Honest
I wrote this post a few weeks ago and boy do I need this advice myself. STAT! I’m celebrating my 32nd wedding anniversary in Hawaii and there are ample opportunities to eat out. I have a small galley kitchen where I can prepare simple meals but it’s soooooo easy to go out to eat. In…
Can you eat out every day and stay healthy? Let’s be Honest
Let’s be honest, cooking and eating at home will always be healthier than eating out, unless you are eating at a Canyon Ranch Spa under strict supervision. Restaurant food is higher in fat, sodium, carbohydrates and portion sizes because they are catering to the Standard American Diet (SAD). When 60% of U.S. Adults are…
10 Things That No One Has Time For – Let’s Be Honest
I’m not buying your excuse that you don’t have time to exercise. Find a way to move every day. You don’t have to join a gym. Take a walk on the wild side. And bring a friend. Here are a few examples of things you really don’t have time for.
Wine and Women, Let’s Be Honest
“How much alcohol do you drink?” “Doc, I’m just here for my annual gyno exam. Why do you care how much I drink?” I care about alcohol use for the same reason that I care if you smoke. Everyone knows that smoking is addictive and dangerous to your health yet alcohol consumption has become so…
What's for dinner, Doc? 