Occupation: Medical Doctor Birth: June 8, 1942
If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropr….
If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly..
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you..
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us.….
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be ….
Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people..
The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms..
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do hav….
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization..
Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sl….
The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism "revved up" so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very lit….
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real f….
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea..
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, b….
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But th….
The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the mo….
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal lon….
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and t….
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to y….
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are….
Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the comple….