Feeling hungrier and less satisfied: MINDFULNESS as published in Archives Internal Medicine 171:1585 9/26/11. WEIGHT LOSS and even the ATTEMPT at weight loss has a biochemistry that makes one FEEL HUNGRIER and when you eat, LESS SATISFIED. HOLD ON .... Take a second ... Think about it ... Or even better JUST NOTICE and OBSERVE where you are-what is going on-what do you … [Read more...]
Stress Anxiety Depression and Br’er Rabbit
A blockable step against the descent into Hell A happy moment of my childhood was the movie “Song of the South”. When I saw master macrobiotic teacher Michio Kushi in Boston, he advised me to sing a happy song every day. That movie contains 1 of the best happy songs: ‘Zippety Doo Dah’–I advise everyone to go to YouTube to see and hear Uncle Remus singing it so wonderfully. … [Read more...]
The Thief
In high school, I was taught us the wonderful story by Guy de Maupassant ‘The Piece of String’ which is a really sad story of a man who was a social outcast to begin with but who simply picked up a piece of string on the street and was vilified his entire life for having stolen someone’s wallet that had been lost the same time as he picked up that piece of string. Even as he … [Read more...]
Wellness Aphorisms 2024
by H. Robert Silverstein, MD, FACC This approach reduces the complexity and cost of healthcare: it is an important part of the human potential movement The best clinical insights exceed so-called knowledge by at least 1 step Physicians guess at every step, the best physicians have the best guessing rate In the 2012 Arnold Schwarzenegger actually quite decent sci-fi … [Read more...]
The Unhappening of Heart Disease
A recent article was published in The European Society of Medicine (ESMED) authored by H. Robert Silverstein - entitled The Unhappening of Heart Disease, in the Medical Research Archives (MRA). Note: this article has also been made into a presentation (slides). ABSTRACT: Most of the major diseases, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in particular, are … [Read more...]