Health Touches

At three in the morning you wake up and brood about it. You feel a cold chill down your spine when the thought occurs to you randomly during the day. You don’t want to think about it. And yet it worries you and eats at you. It makes you wonder what […]

Many people, including people with diabetes and people who are trying to lose weight, need to avoid eating simple carbohydrates such as sugar, pasta, bread, and potatoes. While a person facing a low carbohydrate life-style may cringe at the thought of giving up these comfort foods, there are some alternatives that make the transition […]

Doctors are highly educated people, having completed four years of college, four years of medical school, and sometimes advanced training for a specialty. Of course, this is a good characteristic because we want highly educated people to be making diagnoses and suggesting treatments.

The challenging part of this is that doctors frequently use “doctor […]

In the little number your doctor gives you regarding your cholesterol (total cholesterol) lie measures of the types of cholesterol in your body. One is the HDL “good” cholesterol, one is for LDL “bad” cholesterol, and one is related to triglycerides. Different people have trouble with different types of cholesterol; some people’s HDL […]