Caffeine Confusion
When your primary doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, Florida, discuss healthy lifestyles with our patients, sometimes they will admit to their daily caffeine intake with averted eyes and a guilty manner.
When your primary doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, Florida, discuss healthy lifestyles with our patients, sometimes they will admit to their daily caffeine intake with averted eyes and a guilty manner.
Part of summer tradition entails picnics and cookouts. And what would any good outdoor festive occasion be without potato chips and pretzels and assorted other salty treats?
What could be healthier than fruit juice? If it’s pure fruit juice, and not sugared water with a bit of juice added, it’s perfect for children, right? Not anymore.
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.
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.
A new study from John’s Hopkins University released this month projects that the number of adults suffering from hearing loss is expected to double, from 44.1 million people in 2020 to 73.5 million by 2060. That is 15% of adults ages 20 and older to 22.6%, according to a report published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The hearing loss studied was defined as “mild to moderate.”
Your primary care concierge physicians at MD 2.0 in Jupiter, FL, often receive questions from our patients about the benefits or truth of one supposed miracle cure after another. Some of these so-called cures are hoaxes, some are hearsay, and some are possibly wishful thinking.