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Happy New Year. Since it is a new year, why not take look in the mirror? How do you look? Is your body exuding energy, health and fitness? Have you achieved your ideal scene or have you given up on it long ago? Are you the boss of this body machine or does it run you at its every whim? Perhaps you can change? If you do, we'd like to help. During the next year the Optimum Health Report will come into your mailbox every other week to offer you some ideas that may change how you look at health and health care. Some of them will ring true for you and you can incorporate them into your life. It is my hope that it will improve what you know and what you can do about your own health. In this issue, a look at chronic illness, a diet plan with supplements, and beating pain without drugs. To your health for a New Year!
— D.I. Minkoff, MD
Before You Make a New Resolution To Lose Weight. . .
Let's face it: many Americans have bulging waistlines and the problem is only getting worse. Over a 101 diets have been designed to handle the problem, yet few are successful in the long term. A cynicism over the whole subject has naturally occurred. In fact, the word "diet" and "fad" are so closely linked that it's hard to hear about one and not think of the other.
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Changes in the Optimum Health Report
Dear Readers; For the new year we are making some changes in the Optimum Health Report. We are going to change to an every other week format so that we can add a new monthly email letter called The Menopause Resource Report. With thousands of women entering menopause daily, the problems of night sweats, mood changes, and poor sleep, affect many millions. We are going to provide a resource to help answer the questions women have and give them solutions so that this transition period can be as easy as possible. We will create a resource for "all things menopausal" including the best books for information, "Ask the doctor questions," articles with answers, and supplements and diet suggestions. We hope you find this useful and we will do our best to make it so. The first issue will be out soon. Please let us know how you like it. Happy Holidays, D.I. Minkoff, M.D.
What Is the Best Remedy for Pain?
Before you take NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs), such as Advil, Motrin, Vioxx, Celebrex, consider the following:
- NSAIDs cause 103,000 hospitalizations per year,
- Every year 16,500 arthritis patients DIE from NSAID-related gastrointestinal damage alone
- 21% of all adverse drug reactions, such as bleeding, kidney and liver damage, are due to NSAID use
- People over 60 have a significantly higher probability of experiencing complications associated with NSAID use
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What Causes Chronic Illness?
In our experience, the chronic diseases of our nation are due mainly to three causative factors. Many of the chronic conditions named in our medical textbooks are for groups of symptoms that a patient may have. Of course, symptoms are the result of some cause, and if one is going to help the patient get better, those causes must be found. If we only treat symptoms, we are often unsuccessful in the long run at restoring real optimum health.
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