Butter is a natural dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented milk until milk fat globules join together to form yellow clumps.  Typically it is made from cow’s milk but can be made of milk from goats, sheep and yaks.  Salt and flavorings are often added. In 1896 a French chemist patented the first […]

Botox Day is Tuesday August 18 with discounts on Botox and fillers such as Juvederm.  Botox is $13/unit or $195/syringe (normally $16/unit and $240/syringe) and fillers are 10% off.  Voluma is an injectable filler that augments and lifts the cheeks.  Buy a syringe for each side and get half off the second side saving $400. […]

Botox Day is Tuesday August 18 with discounts on Botox and fillers such as Juvederm.  Botox is $13/unit or $195/syringe (normally $16/unit and $240/syringe) and fillers are 10% off.  Voluma is an injectable filler that augments and lifts the cheeks.  Buy a syringe for each side and get half off the second side saving $400. […]

Eggs are inexpensive; protein packed, and relatively low in cholesterol.  The cholesterol in foods like eggs is different from the LDL cholesterol in the blood stream that contributes to heart disease. There is 186 mg of cholesterol in the average egg. It is contained in the yolk.  The American Heart Association recommends 300 mg of […]

  Do you ever snap at someone or get angry when hungry?  A possible explanation is the “hangries” an amalgam of hungry and angry.  While psychosocial factors have a role there is plenty of physiology to explain this phenomenon. Everything we eat has carbohydrates, proteins or fats which are digested into simple sugars (like glucose), […]

Botox Day is Tuesday July 21 with discounts on Botox and fillers such as Juvederm.  Botox is $13/unit or $195/syringe (normally $16/unit and $240/syringe) and fillers are 10% off.  Voluma is an injectable filler that augments and lifts the cheeks.  Buy a syringe for each side and get half off the second side saving $400. […]

Botox Day is Tuesday July 21 with discounts on Botox and fillers such as Juvederm.  Botox is $13/unit or $195/syringe (normally $16/unit and $240/syringe) and fillers are 10% off.  Voluma is an injectable filler that augments and lifts the cheeks.  Buy a syringe for each side and get half off the second side saving $400. […]

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one killer of Americans, claiming half a million lives annually, most commonly by causing a heart attack.  CAD occurs when atherosclerosis “hardening of the arteries” affects the arteries of the heart.  CAD causes coronary heart disease, a term that is often used interchangeably. In CAD, a waxy substance […]

Male breast tissue or gynecomastia causes an embarrassing prominence to the chest of many men.  It often limits the activities that men do with their shirts off such as swimming and the beach.  In fact, often men wear two shirts to help cover the prominence. The causes can be from excessive breast tissue, fatty tissue, […]

“There is little scientific basis for stating a daily requirement for eight glasses of water,” says Dr. Irwin Rosenberg professor at the Friedman School of Tuft’s University. It stems back to a study in 1945 that found our bodies use about 64 ounces each day.   He goes on to say that fluid intake is driven […]