General Health

No more weighing protein on little scales. No more arbitrary deadlines to lose X amount of weight. After I made this decision, I felt ten pounds lighter already!

Somehow, very early on along the way, eating became mechanical, emotional, social, comforting, and generally filled with mindlessness . . .

So many of us have stopped looking after our health—between taking care of the kids, the husband, keeping up the household and, for many, juggling a job, our own health and fitness don't seem to make the top of our priority list...

Unbeknownst to me, I was a walking time bomb and could have been another statistic in the number one cause of death. How is that possible?

Most people (unfortunately) go about their daily routine of providing for their bodies what nature requires – eating, drinking, sleeping, etc. – without paying much attention to what these activities and functions mean on a spiritual plane. The questions that we need to ask are: Why did G‑d create me this way? Why do I have to eat in order to obtain energy?

Miriam was about to run some errands and pick up her youngest child from school, a fourteen-year-old daughter, but suddenly felt her cheeks burning, and a warmth that flashed throughout her entire body like lighting...

A portly gentleman in his mid-sixties collapses into bed each evening, exhausted and spent. His wife by his side, they are attached wrist to wrist with a cord, in case she tries to walk out of the apartment in the middle of the night . . .

I had no idea what I was doing to myself until one day I remember my mother crying to me, “Bubbie and Zadie (Grandmother and Grandfather) were starved in a concentration camp for their granddaughter to starve herself?”

When is the last time you heard of mercury? Was it your high school chemistry class?

“We fought, we won, let’s eat” is how many people sum up the essence of Jewish holidays. Wiith such an emphasis on food, is it possible that there is even the slightest concern in Judaism for one’s health?

Suddenly every step mattered, every minute move was registered. The daily drudge finally counted for something. Look! Don’t you see 8,116 in all its digital glory? I’m losing and gaining all at once...

If a workout doesn’t stretch, doesn’t burn, it isn’t working. It isn’t supposed to cause pain, but you definitely have to break a sweat!

I am not a professional fitness trainer, have no scientific proof to back up anything I am about to tell you, and might even contradict what those in the know would say. But I can tell you one thing. These things work...

Maimonides (1135-1204), taught that we should work to prevent illness or disease, rather than wait for a problem and then attempt to resolve it. With this in mind, we must look at stress and how it affects our lives...

Sure, man cannot live on fruit alone - but there isn't a better way to start the day than by having a breakfast of fruit.The more directly a blessing comes from G‑d, the less we are able to ignore its true Source...

One of the most common problems I address with patients involves the treatment of chronic pain. The day-to-day aches and pains that make life sometimes unbearable . . .