Healthy choices
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Health habits
With a quick search on Google, Bing, or whatever search engine makes you happy, you can find advice on health habits that is completely overwhelming. I just did this and came up with 453,000,000 results. In other words, I could be busy for a very long time researching how to be healthy. In fact, if…
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I hate high blood pressure
Feeding the monsters of heart disease, vascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure affects half the adult population in the United States. This means there are 129,000,000 people who have this diagnosis whether they know it or not walking around America. Often blood pressure is the first domino to fall in many…
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The Grapes of Wrath
What book are you reading right now? For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. I just finished the classic John Steinbeck novel, The Grapes of Wrath, that so effectively transports you back to the…
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Just get the colonoscopy
During a typical yearly physical and preventative health exam, we discuss lots of topics in the clinic, and one of the main ones is the dreaded colonoscopy. We discuss this because the goal is to prevent colorectal cancer, one of the cancers that is a significant risk to everyone over 45. Colorectal cancer is a…
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Time off… Taking a new direction in life
Free time in nature Last June, I left my job and took a month off to reflect, relax and spend time in nature. This was a major deal for me. I had been working or going to school for decades with no real break beyond recovery vacations. My wife and I decided that this would…
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