by drebanks | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog, Cancer, Dementia, Exercise, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging
Medical Test Results You Should Know Most of us are inundated with numbers every day. From the mundane phone numbers, passwords, sports scores and spreadsheets to the more esoteric Wall Street derivatives and mortgage-backed securities, our society couldn’t function...
by drebanks | Apr 17, 2011 | Blog, Cancer, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging
Mary Poppins may have recommended adding a spoonful of sugar to make some things a little more palatable, but Americans have taken that benign suggestion and run amok with it. American consumption of added sugars has increased drastically over the last several...
by drebanks | Mar 18, 2011 | Exercise, Heart Disease, Obesity, stress, Type-2 Diabetes
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and it is the number one cause of serious, long-term disability. Most of us think about strokes as a condition affecting the elderly. While it is true that the vast majority of strokes occur after age...
by drebanks | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Exercise, healthy aging, Longevity, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging
Remember how good you felt in your twenties? You were full of energy, vigor and lust. Your responsibilities were few and just having fun was fairly routine. The world was your oyster. You really had the mojo-thing going on. But life can get in the way. Career,...
by drebanks | Dec 23, 2010 | Blog, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes
We are all aware of the current obesity trend in this country and across the globe. Avoiding fat in our diet has been the conventional mantra now for the last 4 or 5 decades. But what has this low-fat obsession gotten us? Well, Americans are now fatter than ever. ...
by drebanks | Oct 17, 2010 | Blog, Cancer, Exercise, healthy aging, Heart Disease, Obesity, Preventive Wellness, Type-2 Diabetes
It may seem obvious that sleep is beneficial. Even without fully grasping what sleep does for us, we know that going without sleep for too long makes us feel terrible, and that getting a good night’s sleep can make us feel ready to take on the world. When we...