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5Oct, 2020

Healthy Habits Can Conquer Chronic Medical Conditions

Disease, Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle

We’ve heard a great deal lately about how those with chronic conditions—diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity—are more likely to become sicker when exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Even leaving aside the coronavirus, many individuals have thought that having multiple chronic medical conditions such as those or others (cancer, asthma, coronary artery disease, and so forth) doomed them to a premature death.

But our concierge doctors have recently come across some good news for those people. It turns out that healthy lifestyle habits can overcome multiple types of chronic conditions and help extend your life.

21Sep, 2020

What You Should Know About Cholesterol

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Health Basics, Lifestyle

Since September is National Cholesterol Education Month, our concierge doctors want to review the often-confusing facts about this vital blood component.

18May, 2020

The Epidemic Threatening the U.S.: Obesity

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Health Basics, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Amid all the frenzy across the media about the coronavirus, a disturbing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study dropped last month with barely a ripple. It found that the obesity rate in the U.S. continues to edge up, from 40 percent in a 2015-16 study to 42 percent in the current 2017-18 study.

16Apr, 2020

How to Cope with the Stress of COVID-19

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Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Preventative Health

Perhaps the only people who might relate to the stress everyone is feeling these days are those few who were alive during the flu pandemic of 1918-1920 (yes, it lasted three years). Then, as today, the pandemic caused global industry shutdowns, overcrowded hospitals, mandatory closures, and people huddled in their homes in fear.

25Mar, 2020

How to Talk to Kids About the Coronavirus

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coronavirus Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Motivation

If you’re confused and frightened about the novel coronavirus, imagine how children feel. So our concierge doctors at MD 2.0 want to offer some guidance on how to broach the subject with them to help alleviate their fears.

9Mar, 2020

Don’t Let Kids Skimp on Sleep

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Sleep Children, Health Basics, Lifestyle, Preventative Health

The National Sleep Foundation has designated this week National Sleep Awareness Week, to celebrate sleep health and encourage the public to prioritize sleep to improve their overall health and well-being.

26Feb, 2020

Is a Clean Home Dangerous to Your Health?

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cleaning, cleaning products, safer choice Environment, Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle

You try to keep your family healthy in every way you can, including ensuring that the environment in your home is as clean as possible. But our concierge family practice doctors at MD 2.0 in Jupiter want to caution you that the cleaning products you may be using come with a host of possible dangers to your health and that of your family.

5Feb, 2020

Full-Fat Dairy May Be Healthier for You

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Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Nutrition

If you’ve been drinking low-fat or skim milk because you’ve been told it’s healthier for you, our concierge family doctors would like to offer some information that might change your mind. Although the research is not yet definitive, several recent studies have suggested that full-fat dairy products are actually better for you in several ways.

11Nov, 2019

The Downside of Cleanliness

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clean, germs, handwashing Children, Environment, Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Preventative Health

Our concierge family practice doctors in Jupiter are all in favor of sanitation, but we also know it’s possible to take cleanliness too far. When it comes to kids, a little dirt now and then is not necessarily a bad thing.

17Oct, 2019

Every year, more than 500,000 people go to emergency rooms for problems associated with kidney stones, according to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). And if you’ve ever had one, the intense pain you experience will ensure you’ll never want to have another one.

Preventing Kidney Stones

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kidney, kidney stones, stones Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Preventative Health

Every year, more than 500,000 people go to emergency rooms for problems associated with kidney stones, according to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). And if you’ve ever had one, the intense pain you experience will ensure you’ll never want to have another one.

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