HealthCircle(Photographer: Kurhan on stock.xchng) All doctors' offices -- including ours -- charge more for new patient visits than for existing patient visits. This is standard practice among all doctors and doctors' offices, and it is a practice required by commercial insurance ...
Yearly Archives: 2012
(Image ©everyday-stock235 on deviantART) How do you know if you have Type 2 Diabetes mellitus? Unfortunately, a person can diabetes for years without any symptoms. If you are overweight, or you have a family history of diabetes it is important to go to a ...
(Image ©StockProject1 on deviantART) A new study from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona (published in the New England Journal of Medicine) has found that one in five patients that successfully treated their type 2 diabetes with gastric bypass surgery experienced a ...
(Image ©hc-stock on deviantART) A lot people take laxatives hoping it will help them lose weight. They won't. Laxatives provide little actual weight loss; usually a couple of pounds lost at most, and even that does not last very long. Laxatives work by changing ...
(Image ©Kitt-Stock on deviantART) There are so many different exercise shoes that we can't keep count. Trends in shoe design come and go as fast as in any other part of the world of fashion. And they all seem to promise so ...
(Image ©somadjinn on deviantART) One of the secrets almost all the athletes participating in the 2012 London Olympics (and any other major sporting event) share is using jogging as a way to train and exercise. This reasons are simple: 1) Jogging is cheap and ...
(Photographer: Miguel Ugalde on stock.xchng) For most of human history food has been scarce. Our ancestors survived because they ate lots of food--especially high calorie foods like rice and breads--when it was available, and their bodies stored as much of ...
(Image provided courtesy of twodoubleu-stock on deviantART) One of the least healthy things you can do when trying to lose weight is force yourself to eat. For some reason people insist that you must eat three meals a day, at three specific ...
(Image ©FantasyStock on deviantART) When we think of dieting we always think about eating less. But did you know there is something you can eat more of if you want (much more if you really want): fruits and vegetables. As long as you ...
(Image ©ferelwing-stock on deviantART) A lot of people -- parents in particular -- have trouble fitting their exercise routines in with their busy schedules. Well, we have an idea for great exercise that will allow you to spend quality time with your ...
(Photographer: Brian Hoskins) A lot of people ask what appetite suppressant we use in our weight loss program. The answer is phentermine. Phentermine is the same thing, chemically, as Adipex (or Adipex P). Many people have tried Adipex in the past, but have ...
(Image ©moonberry on deviantART) Its been a couple of days since we posted, and we apologize. Things having been very hectic here. Robert S. Tomchik, M.D. married Amelia Triana on Saturday at the Church of the Little Flower. So not surprisingly, we have ...