The Fourth of July is nearing, one of the three big holidays known for barbecues, along with Memorial Day and Labor Day. The centerpiece of all the picnics and backyard parties nearly always includes the distinctive aroma of various grilled meats wafting over the festivities, whetting appetites for whatever’s “on the barbie.”
It’s not officially summer, yet we’ve already seen an onslaught of record-high temperatures here in South Florida. Your concierge physicians at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, Florida, want to remind you of the risks of dehydration in children.
When your concierge doctors in Jupiter, FL at MD 2.0, discuss a healthy diet with our patients, we often mention “fruits and vegetables” as a key part that dietary regime.
Your primary physicians at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, Florida, would like to note that May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and to take this opportunity to remind our patients of possible signs of the disease.
Everyone knows that obesity can contribute to such ailments as heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis, among other adverse effects. However, your primary care doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, Florida, want to focus on a particular type of fat: belly fat.
For years, the medical community has been touting statins as the silver bullet to save lives, but a report last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) only served to cloud the picture further.
Can a product that was developed to plump up wrinkles actually relieve social anxiety and even depression in some people? If so, how?
Your primary care doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, know that many of our patients experience differing types and degrees of insomnia at all ages, but quality sleep becomes more elusive in older people. Now a new study published in the journal Neuron this month explains why. Popular wisdom until now has held that older adults sleep less because they need less sleep, but that is not the case. The Sleep Foundation says that older people need the same seven-to-nine hours of sleep as everyone else. The problem is, they can’t get it.
How have you been feeling lately? Tired and achy? Having trouble getting to sleep or waking up? Are you craving salt and sugar? Moody? Losing weight without dieting? Lightheaded? Have you been losing body hair or experiencing skin discoloration?
For years, pregnant women were told to avoid exercise because of perceived danger to the fetus. But this month, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that has attributed those recommendations, along with the simultaneous recommendation for women increase calorie intake during their pregnancies, to the rising worldwide epidemic of obesity.
