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Excellent, ever improving health

by Dr. Alexander on August 27, 2010

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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein.

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The truth about healthy bones and preventing osteoporosis.

by Tom Alexander on May 21, 2012

On May 9th of this year, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study that reviewed all the major studies of osteoporosis and its treatment with a common class of drugs called the bisphosphonates (Fosamax, Boniva to name a few). They found to their surprise that after six years of treatment with the [...]

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A Great Cartoon on Acid Blockers

October 26, 2011

  http://youtu.be/GpDXERxQHUY

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ABC News Flash on Cholesterol

August 23, 2011

Cholesterol and Heart Disease:   The link between cholesterol and heart disease has been exaggerated over the years. While ‘oxidized cholesterol’ is still a risk factor, there are more important factors in the development of heart disease. More information and blogs follow but this ABC news flash is a great appetizer pointing to the truth. [...]

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FOX 10 News: Jump Start a Healthy Lifestyle with Natural Dieting Alternatives

August 14, 2011

Alexis Vance of the Fox 10 News team has a great interview with Dr. Alexander on the Fox News Website. Here is a clip from the show: Jump Start a Healthy Lifestyle with Natural Dieting Alternatives: MyFoxPHOENIX.com And an excerpt from the article: You’ve tried everything from exercise to eating right, but you still can’t [...]

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Do more for your health

May 25, 2011

It has been a while since I wrote a blog. A combination of circumstances have kept me engaged and made me tardy in doing my regular writing. We hope to get back on a more regular schedule though the posts will not be every week as it has been in the past. More details on [...]

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The joy of movement. Part 3 of Health Resolutions for 2011.

January 19, 2011

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.  ~PlatoMovement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.  ~Carol WelchThe word exercise has a tiring, obligatory and joyless connotation for some of us. So lets use [...]

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Health Resolutions for 2011: Part Two.

January 5, 2011

Without further ado let me get to the list of simple steps to excellent health Stand Up…. A study published this July in the American Journal of Epidemiology (1)  showed that sitting down for extended periods of time can decrease your life span. The study showed that something as simple as getting off your office [...]

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Happy New Year 2011

December 31, 2010

“If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I’d spend 55 minutes determining the right question to ask. Once I got the right question, I could easily answer it in 5 minutes.”                            Albert Einstein.A new year is dawning upon us and with [...]

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Simple, powerful steps to excellent health

December 22, 2010

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu. While we sit and wait for science to find a miracle cure for cancer or heart disease, we forget that prevention is the best cure. If you have followed my columns over the months, you likely know that the tools to good [...]

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New hope for Parkinson Disease. Part Two: Treatment

December 8, 2010

The goal of medical therapy in PD is two fold – one is to alleviate the symptoms and the other is to stop the progression of the disease. There has been  progress in drugs that help symptoms. From the days of using L-dopa, we have more available options for treatment. (L-dopa itself has been shown [...]

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