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*Repost from April 4, 2016 Robert’s breath had become his worst nightmare and as a consequence he knew was starting to isolate himself socially. For three years, he’d tried every over-the-counter remedy. When he walked, Tic Tacs rattled in several pockets. Robert had seen specialists, had his teeth cleaned every three months, and followed a […]

The results of an immense study were just published in JAMA-Open but be warned, it contains lots and lots of statistical jargon and tables. The link is here to confirm what this Health Tip is all about. Just understand, if you’re female in your late forties or fifties, then by 2050, 24 years from now, […]

Last Health Tip I couldn’t help but remind you of Chicago’s NUMBER ONE position in the U.S. in terms of miles of lead pipes still in use AND President Trump’s blocking of funding dedicated to lead pipe removal, allocating the money instead to ICE. On the good news side, this gesture of relentless contempt toward […]

I don’t know. Maybe you’re just getting too overwhelmed with relentless bad news one day after another so you might have missed what occurred last week in Washington. Senator Tammy Duckworth called the vote by Republican congressmen “obscene.” She’s absolutely right. They took money ($125M) that had been allocated to replace lead pipes in the […]

Well, it depends. If you’re under thirty, your digestive symptoms of bloating, low level nausea, abdominal cramping, and general intestinal “discomfort” are most likely a reflection of what you’ve been eating and how you eat it. Although our nutritionist, Olivia Darrow, is anything but Jewish, she might, if she heard what you regard as “food” […]

It’s not enough that every single day’s headline has something stressful: ICE shootings; Greenland/Venezuela/Ukraine; Feds withholding aid for food and medicine; but now both COVID and flu are on the rise. January and February are the big flu months and what’s left of the DOGE decimated CDC is warning that another pandemic of a new […]