Casey: Hi, my name is Casey. I'm from Oregon and I would like to know why should I eat more fish?Carole Havrila: Well Casey, most people are asking today about the benefits of eating fish, because they are trying to reduce the amount of saturated fat in the diet I mean specifically for many of us that comes from red meat and in an effort to get red meat out of the diet or cut it down a lot of us a...read more
Dr. Neal Schultz: Hello I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and welcome to DermTV.We get lots of questions about stretch marks so let me tell you a little bit about them. We recognize stretch marks as either being straight lines on the skin or sometimes zigzag lines on the skin. They tend to be pink when they're new stretch marks, white in color when they're older stretch marks, and the surface or texture has a ...read more
Catrina Skepper: Once again, its time to go through mail bag and answer your medical questions. Today Su Laurent, a Consultant Paediatrician from Barnet Hospital is with me. Welcome again Su.Su Laurent: Hi Catrina.Catrina Skepper: Obviously at this of the year, when it gets cold, parents are worried I think a lot about the temperature of the room, temperature that they keep their baby, the environ...read more
Dr. Amy Epps: Cholesterol medicines very, very important. Certainly you dont want to try diet and exercise first then you dont want to talk to your physician about this because diet and exercise can lower you cholesterol, can lower you blood pressure. But a lot of people that have a genetic predisposition to have cholesterol or have done as much diet and exercise they can do and still have elevate...read more
Audra Lowe: If you want to preserve your youthful glow, forget about the plastic surgeon and turn to the nutritionist. Women self magazine came out with the new book called Age Erasers for Women; it reveals the foods that are going to actually help you fight for your right and look and feel amazing. Senior Editor of Womens Health Sascha DeGersdorff is here and shes going to highlight a few of thos...read more
Steps between Diagnosis and Remission - Dona's StoryWell, see I had the chemo, I would have one day, the second day, then I'd be off a week, and then I'd have another day. Then I would be off and have nothing for a week. So all during that, I think the numbers did go down some, but I was so into the chemo and so weak during the chemo that I did not really pay any attention to any of that until aft...read more
Barbara Brody: Lack of sleep really is kind of an epidemic in this country, and a lot of people do think that you can just pop a pill and that that's the best thing to do, but there are a number of lifestyle measures that you can take, and starting them early in the day is really the key to sleeping better at night. Joyce A. Walsleben: An important thing to do during the daytime is to stay on a re...read more