The Joy of Stress was started as an information piece for specific questions asked by my patients. In the course of a busy practice of family medicine and emergency care, I was asked by my patients to simplify the complicated steps to deal with their particular problems.
Carried on the Reuters wire service, so that it will appear in every corner of the globe, the article reported that a forty year old woman is twice as likely to give birth to a left-handed child than a twenty year old woman.
Are you at that “golden” age when retirement is looming, or has already loomed? For years, we have all thought of retirement as the reward for a lifetime of work, but the reality is quite different.
If you are in hospital, don’t expect your memory to do all the work for you. If you have a question, write it down, then, when the doctor does come for a visit, you won’t forget to ask.
Warts can occur on any part of the body, but are called plantar warts where you plant your feet on the ground. These are hard to ignore, as they come into play every time your foot hits the ground.
Dry eyes are more than a modest problem. They can be the cause of great stress.
Water: it makes up three quarters of our planet, and it makes up three quarters of your body. We swim in it until the day we’re born; all our life our body craves it.
Aging is supposed to be a reward, not a punishment. However, there are days when that may not seem to be much consolation. Just like with a car, we can ignore maintenance at first, but after it becomes an old classic, it needs a lot more maintenance.
It has long been believed that medical diseases can often be a result of our western diet. Well, it turns out that we now have an even better reason to eat fiber, not just for our bowels, but for our hearts.