The Art of Healthy Living
The Art of Healthy Living
Fact: I am not good at letting my children go. Three years ago I sent my oldest to college and everyday after found things to put in a care-package to send him. There were postcards of home, clean socks, protein bars, pens, a ruler, and one mango. The mango was …
Someone I know is dying. It’s a rude fact to even write on this page. It is devastatingly unwanted, despised, heavy, and incredibly unfair. I do suppose we are all dying, but sometimes a doctor gives an expiration date and you are forced to stop ignoring that you have one. …
I love the news. In college. I tuned in weekly for “Meet the Press.” RIP Tim Russert. But the latest news cycle has me considering how “getting the news” has evolved over time. Back in college, with smart phones still a decade away, I would sit with the physical newspaper …
Let’s talk pillars of health! More specifically, let’s talk about social connection Now more than ever Medical studies have shown that loneliness and lack of connection with others takes more years off your life than smoking This seems like a drastic conclusion…because social connection means connection with others “Others” Others …
As a doctor, I know that my field of medicine is both glorious and simultaneously fallible. We don’t understand everything about the bodies that our souls carry around, and that can be humbling to us. At the same time we understand a lot. Certainly we know a lot more than …
With cooler mornings I’ve been loving starting my day off with oatmeal with chopped apples and cinnamon. Sometimes I add chopped prunes or raisins for a little extra sweetness and grab an orange for calcium and vitamin C to ward of all the viruses of the season For lunch at …
The leaves are falling, mornings are cooler, and travel plans are being made. It’s November! And that means Thanksgiving. This will be my second Thanksgiving after changing my diet to a whole food plant based, and this year I am pulling out recipes and planning all sorts of great tasting …
Wednesday was a day full of caring for health in obvious and usual ways and in ways that might not be fully appreciated. In the morning I went to the doctor for my annual check up. We discussed “being healthy” in the way of traditional health system medicine. This is …
I’m back from vacation! I took the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine with me on vacation, but it’s time to get back into the regular home routine! And that’s how I practice Lifestyle Medicine -the 6 pillars-just for today!
Twenty years ago I had gotten married, moved 500 miles from my family, and had a baby. I was doing my medical training, working 100 hours a week, and experiencing the isolation that comes with being a new mom, who, as a pediatrician, was supposed to have all the right …