Can Alcohol be Healthy?

Alcohol is something that many people enjoy. It seems like every other day the media is saying that alcohol has health benefits and then shortly after telling us that it doesn’t. It just depends on who is paying for the research and the commercials at the time. One...

Lose Weight While You Sleep

There was a commercial in the early 2000’s advertising a supplement that would enable a person to lose weight while they slept. Now this ran counterintuitive to the messages being spewed by mass media at the time that begged people to get themselves down to the gym...

A Flashback in Time

I took my 7-year-old son to an amusement park this past weekend. While in line waiting for a ride, I noticed an overweight woman who was trying to get on the ride with her family. The problem was that the seats were too small for her to be able to safely ride the...