Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, “Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 premature deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from second hand smoke exposure. This
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board If one asks; how does cigarette smoke affects your body? Many will answer, “It causes lung cancer.” However, often overlooked, smoking affects almost every organ in the body, especially the cardiovascular system (stroke, hypertension, heart attack). This year, at the end of May, social media and other media outlets
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Over the past 35 years, the number of calories we ingest has increased significantly. More importantly, the quality of the calories we take in has dramatically plummeted. The nutritional value of the food we eat and drink greatly determines how our metabolism works to keep us healthy. Every day we are challenged to incorporate good
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board As gasoline fuels cars, calories fuel our bodies. A calorie measures the energy in the food we eat. Today, it seems everyone is counting calories. The human body requires a minimum amount of premium fuel (good calories) to keep the engines of its organs running smoothly. That is to
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Joseph R. Antiicaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Headaches can be baffling. They can be divided into two categories: Secondary headaches are symptoms secondary to a known disease process. For example, the headache might be due to sinusitis or tumors. Primary headaches, such as tension-type and migraine headaches, have no known recognized disease process causing the pain.
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Ginkgo biloba is one of the most extensively studied herbs in the U.S. and Europe. Ginkgo is a spectacular tree that has been in existence for millions of years. It can live for more than a thousand years, grow to a height of 122 feet and is considered by
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board For many years, peptic ulcers were considered to be caused by too much acid in the stomach, as well as, being a psychosomatic problem (a physical disease) brought on by mental stress and anxiety. Professors in medical school taught “hyper-secretion” of stomach (gastric) acid was the fundamental cause of
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Review Board Earth Day, first observed in 1970, is expected to energize a billion people in over 180 countries on April 22 to dramatize the need to protect our environment. Several years ago, when Julie’s children were 7 and 11 year olds, she and her husband decided not to eat
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board In the late 1950/s and early 1960’s, pregnant women worldwide used a “wonder drug” promoted to combat a variety of conditions including morning sickness, insomnia and depression. Thousands of women who took the drug were horrified when they gave birth to babies with misshapen hands, feet, arms or legs.
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Medications have cured many sick people. However, medications when combined with certain foods have made many healthy people sick. Some foods decrease the absorption of drugs in the body and make them less effective, because not enough drugs get into the blood stream. On the other hand, certain foods
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