Does Awareness Of Your Age Make You Feel Old?
Every year, thousands of people reach their fifties and sixties and are designated “senior citizens.” For them, youth is gone, never to return. Their decline is inevitable, based on their chronological (calendar) age. Everybody declines, right? Wrong. In his book…
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Why People Stop Going to Physical Therapy—and Why They Shouldn’t
I’ve been dealing with plantar fasciitis for about a year now. Like clockwork, every three months, I would go back to my podiatrist for a cortisone shot. I do have custom orthotics, which help. This last time, she suggested physical…
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Doc, Why Do I Suddenly Have High Blood Pressure?
“I just don’t understand . . . why did my blood pressure suddenly go up?!” I get this question EVERY SINGLE DAY. Hypertension (elevated blood pressure) is one of the triad symptoms of metabolic syndrome. After practicing medicine for over…
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Don’t Expect To Hear This
Along with daily readings in two devotional books by Corrie ten Boom, I recently had additional cause to think about sisters Betsie and Corrie, Corrie being the family member most-familiar to many. The ten Booms were not Jewish, but along…
