Category: Social

THE “BAG LADY” IN THE E.R.

THE “BAG LADY” IN THE E.R.

To some degree, we all have the “Bag Lady” mentality. It is simply the thought that the future might be mean and we had better keep something that we would normally throw away in case “We might need it someday.” Women, because they must care for children, have this thought more frequently than men. In [...]

KIDS OF DIVORCED PARENTS, AND KIDS OF PARENTS WHO NEVER DIVORCED

KIDS OF DIVORCED PARENTS, AND KIDS OF PARENTS WHO NEVER DIVORCED

The following facts demonstrate that the Past plays a big Role in the future. Among adult children of divorced parents, only 60% marry, with 50% marrying before age 25 and most marrying people they had known only a short-time. 40% of them eventually divorce (in other words, only 36% of children of divorce are happily [...]

ACCOLADES TO AMAZON

ACCOLADES TO AMAZON

Once in ten years, you get excellent service.
This time, Amazon won the prize.
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OBESITY AND THE WEIGHT LOSS CORNER

OBESITY AND THE WEIGHT LOSS CORNER

I am getting hundreds of emails from readers and patients desiring to lose weight. They come from all over the Planet. Evidently, those areas of the World that in the past had very little obesity, are now being caught up in a new type of Pandemic: METABOLIC DISEASE. OBESITY IS A DISEASE. It is a [...]

TATTOOS AND DISEASE

TATTOOS AND DISEASE

Today I went to my favorite Gym (Health Center) to play some racquetball and lift some weights. I was wandering over to the AB machine when a tall, slightly obese man stepped in front of me. Oh, my God! I thought I was looking at a chapter in Dermatology, called Weird Tattoos from Around the [...]

GETTING BACK TO MY NEANDERTHAL ROOTS

GETTING BACK TO MY NEANDERTHAL ROOTS

Napoleon was a redheaded Italian. I always knew I was related to the Neanderthals because of my Red Gene. Now, the BBC has proven it… Neanderthal genes ‘survive in us’ By Paul Rincon, Science reporter, BBC News Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study. The finding has surprised [...]

DRUGS AND DEPRESSION

DRUGS AND DEPRESSION

Recently, I had a patient come to me with a strange story: This was a man in his early forties, who had been married for several years after dissolving an earlier marriage that had produced no heirs. I treated him only sporadically, since he was seeing several other doctors for problems not within my area [...]

TELEVISION DESTROYS CHILDREN

TELEVISION DESTROYS CHILDREN

I always knew that watching television was bad for children. When I was raising my four toddlers it was a constant fight to keep them away from the T.V. Since I have a bad Neanderthal Temperament, I threw seven T.V.s into the garbage within a period of five years. As a consequence, my kids learned [...]

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