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I’m Healthy, So Sugar Won’t Hurt Me, Right?

While everyone has been taught that fat is bad, this was wrong. Turns out that the fat causes heart disease thing was a myth. The real public enemy has always been sugar. Now a new study shows just how damaging sugar can be. Why Sugar Is Our Dietary Enemy Besides the obvious, which is the…read more

A Shoulder Fracture Nonunion and AVN Update

It’s always good to follow-up with our patients to see how they did long-term. This morning I’d like to update you on a patient whose shoulder fractures were so severe, surgeons had nothing to offer. I gave you a short look at her Fracture Nonunion and Shoulder AVN treatment results back in 2015; this is where…read more

Do Healthy People Who Are Overweight Have Increased Risk of Heart Disease?

If you’re otherwise healthy, is just being overweight a health risk? That’s what a team of researchers recently set out to discover. That’s because studies have bounced back and forth on this issue for a while. What they found may surprise some of the patients I talk to every day. Coronary Heart Disease Coronary heart…read more

Happy Thanksgiving! What I am Thankful For…

What am I thankful for professionally this year? Too often, I, like everyone else, can forget the meaning of this holiday. After all, it’s the official kick-off party for the commercial Christmas and holiday season, so there is much to distract us from the true meaning of Thanksgiving. However, in quiet moments when I can reflect,…read more

RIP Shoulder Decompression Surgery: Another Common Orthopedic Surgery Bites the Dust

The orthopedic-surgery research this past decade has been like the Queen song “Another One Bites the Dust.” It seems like every month another randomized controlled trial shows that the common orthopedic procedures that patients sign up for every day fare no better than fake or placebo procedures. The most recent entry is shoulder decompression surgery. What…read more

You Too Can Be Replaced by an Adding Machine…

Long ago when I was a kid and my dad was aggravated, he’d sometimes tell us in jest, “You can be replaced by an adding machine!” What he was referring to was the fact that he had witnessed a dramatic transformation from his time in engineering school using slide rules to his, at the time, rare…read more

Will Big Pharma Get to Drop Its Side Effect Warnings from TV Ads?

You’ve likely heard the side effect warnings in direct-to-consumer drug ads. They’re read quickly at 2X speed like something out of the Chipmunks movies. They need to be there to warn us, but we rarely pay attention to them until they happen to us. Now big pharma is lobbying to kill even that small bit…read more

The Key to Maintaining Weight Loss? More Exercise than You Think

You go on a little diet and lose some weight. You feel better, look better, and want to keep it off. What will it take? Perhaps more than you think. Maintaining Weight Loss May Require More Exercise than What We Thought Compared to keeping the weight off, many people would say actually losing the weight…read more