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 | 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...
by drebanks | Jun 7, 2010 | Heart Disease, Media, News Articles, Preventive Wellness, Youthful Aging
Desmond Ebanks, M.D., of Alternity Healthcare, a preventive medical practice Q. You have brought the SphygmoCor CP system, a new cardiovascular test, to your practice at Alternity Healthcare in West Hartford. What is it and why should people care about it? A. The...
by drebanks | Feb 12, 2010 | Blog, Heart Disease, Obesity, Women's Health
While many women, and far too many doctors, apparently still do not know it, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of women; and has been since 1984. Out of the one million individuals that die from heart disease each year in the U.S., more than half...