IT’S STILL EARLY ENOUGH

It is still early enough in 2023 and close enough to 2022 to evaluate how we lived last year and figure out how to make this year better. We tend to do this every year with varying success.

We call them New Year’s Resolutions.

With the end of one year and the birth of another, here are a few things that I ponder:

• I should have worked harder on lowering my cholesterol and lipid level by eating better. But I didn’t do too badly. I’m actually 6 pounds lighter now than I was this time last year. I did it the old-fashioned way: I ate anything I wanted to, but not much of it.

• With tongue only partly in cheek, I told a patient not too long ago that the perfect diet for weight reduction was not eating anything white: potatoes, ice cream, cake,