A report in ‘JAMA Pediatrics’, April 8, 2019 revealed that the number of children seen in Emergency Rooms (Departments) for suicidal thoughts and suicidal attempts had more than doubled from 580,000 visits in 2007 to over 1.12 million visits in 2017.  They stated there may be multiple reasons such as increased stress on the parents […]

It appears that our “Digital Age” is getting bigger…well actually we are getting bigger!!!  Did you know that people who switch back and forth on their media devices may very well be overweight, or even obese!  Who knew you could gain weight by leaving your ipad at home so you could use your iphone at […]

So is Climate Change real and is it something we should worry about?   As a physician I am a scientist and a scientist is one that gains knowledge from repeated research that proves factual evidence to obtain the truth.  As a physician scientist my drive is to understand what causes disease, death and destruction.  That […]

     “Human See, Human Do”;  if we view human behavior that is exactly what has led us down the Path of Destruction.  Of course, it is a take-off of the common idiom “Monkey See, Monkey Do” which may be a very simplified version of learned behavior long before our mental capacity and language developed […]

One of the biggest fears is losing our minds, our memories, our selves.  Recently in the UK they reported that the biggest fear was just that…losing their minds.  Our mind is everything; without it we are nothing.  Oh yes we can exist but is just existing what we wish or strive for?  Absolutely not.  Few […]

Dying from Dietary Diseases.  As a species, we have controlled the infectious diseases that were the primary causes of death over the past couple of 100 years or so with antibiotics however we have moved into new territory …and it’s hostile!  We have developed antibiotics to ward off  most of our infectious diseases, which were […]

Are your medications making you sick?  Well it appears that the more medications you take, the more potential you have for adverse side effects just from the ‘inactive ingredients’ alone.  According to a report published in Science Translational Medicine journal (Science Translational Medicine  13 Mar 2019: Vol. 11, Issue 483) they found that “more than […]

N7Having just returned from one of the most educational cruises I have ever been on.  Being on a ship with the great leaders in the Whole Food Plant Based Community and Animal Rights supporters was a fantastic experience loaded with great educational information.  The bottom line is that consuming animal products such as meat and [...]

‘Waste not, Want not’.   My grandma use to say that a lot;  it means  ‘to not waste something because you might need it in the future’.  In a study published in Plos, April 18, 2018, titled  “Relationship between food waste, diet quality, and environmental sustainability”,  it revealed that higher quality diets were associated with greater […]

Can you hear me now?  Neural pathways for music are not as affected by dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as much as other memories tracks.  In fact, it is not uncommon for situations where music has been able to evoke a response or a memory in people with Alzheimer’s.  For example, your mother may have […]