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16 for ’16

As the end of one year and the beginning of another approaches, it’s a fitting time to consider ways to start the new year in a better state of mind and body. Each installment of this series, now through February, will offer simple ways to do just that by cutting bad things and adding good things. To read previous installments of 16 for ’16, visit issuu.com/medicalexaminer. + #3 QUIT!!! This week the Great American Smokeout is

observed, and it’s a good opportunity to offer a few words of encouragement to smokers. There is one thing that nearly all tobacco users have in common: a desire to quit. Maybe not today.

Maybe not even this year. But studies show most smokers don’t plan to smoke forever. Eventually they plan to quit.

When that day finally comes, you have to do it for the right reason — and it has to be your right reason. Not your nagging spouse or friend’s reason or to get your parents off your back.

That’s not to say they can’t be included. Some people quit for someone else, and for them, that works. Some people do it for their kids; some do it for their pets (Did you know that pets in smoking households have a 60 percent higher risk of developing lung cancer? True.). Other people quit to save money, since smoking can burn up close to $2,000 a year (that’s for a pack a day at $5 per). At that rate, a smoker has spent about $10,000 on cigarettes just since November of 2010. It adds up.

Whatever the reason, if it matters to you it’s a good reason.

And if it is a good reason, why not put it to work? “I want to quit someday” is a little bit like “let’s do lunch one of these days.” It may be said with the best of intentions, but it’s amazing how the years fly by, isn’t it? Next thing you know, you’ve been intending to quit for ten years.

Why not set a date? Make it firm. Go public. Tell others about it. Write it on the wall calendar where everyone can see it. Post it online. You will get tons of support, and that includes if you post something like, “Day 6: The cravings are strong today,” or “Day 19: Caved. I’m a failure.”

Sure, it’s disappointing to have a relapse, but it’s also pretty cool to go from smoking many cigarettes a day to going an entire 19 days without even one. You’re still way ahead of the game, and Please see 16 for ’16 page 2

There are plenty of reasons in today’s world to be unhappy. But that’s not an enjoyable way to go through life. Here are 10 scientifically proven ways to enhance your personal enjoyment and happiness.

1. Live near your job – a short commute is worth more than a big house. As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert put it, “Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.”

2. Spend time with friends and family – don’t regret it on your deathbed. “The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships with other people.”

3. Exercise more - Exercise has been proven to be an effective strategy for overcoming even depression.

4. Sleep more – How well (and how long) you sleep will affect how you feel when you wake up, which can improve your whole day.

5. Go outside – One study found that spending 20 minutes outside in good weather boosted positive mood.

6. Help others – It may seem counterintuitive, but science has proved that to make yourself feel happier, you should help others.

7. Smile – A study found that workers who fake smile throughout the day worsen their mood and withdraw from work, affecting productivity.

But workers who smile as a result of cultivating positive thoughts improve their mood.

8. Plan a trip – You don’t evan have to go.

Planning a vacation or just a break from work can improve happiness. Vacation anticipation boosted happiness for eight weeks.

9. Meditate – Meditation literally clears your mind and calms you down, it’s been often proven to be an effective way to live a happier life.

10. Be thankful – Gratitude increased study participants’ happiness and life satisfaction, while decreasing depressive symptoms. +

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16 FOR ‘16… from page 1 perfectly positioned to take up right where you left off and stay quit. In fact, while you were busy falling off the wagon, your original reasons for quitting were holding on tight, confident that you’ll be back with them soon. Don’t disappoint your reasons! They will thank you, and so will more body parts than we have space to list here. Your lungs will certainly host the party, but pretty much the entire rest of your body will also be breathing a sigh of relief.

In short, remember that there is nothing good that comes from smoking — we dare you to challenge that statement — but the potential for bad is real, and for smokers it increases with every passing day.

Don’t let your life go up in a puff of smoke. Make that “someday I’d like to quit” a day that’s coming soon. + #4 TAKE A HIKE! Before we plunge into New Year’s

resolution nominee #4, it should be noted that every year the Medical Examiner — the actual newspaper itself — decides that it will not insult its health-conscious readers with another quit smoking article ever again. Who smokes anymore? But then it sees plenty of people in traffic every day smoking in their cars, flicking cigarettes out the window at red lights, and worst of all, nurses and other healthcare professionals congregated in the few areas where smoking is still allowed on healthcare campuses — seriously, what is up with that??? — puffing away on their cigarettes. Hopefully that offers an explanation - and an apology for the diligent and conscientious non-smokers who are forced to read the anti-tobacco diatribes regularly published on these pages.

In light of the foregoing, allow us to borrow an excellent line from Medical Examiner columnist Darren Mack, M.D., who writes on page 10 of this very issue, “sitting is the new smoking.” That is brilliant, and all too true.

What can be done about it in the new year — or tomorrow?

Well, you could go out and buy some skin-tight leotards, color coordinated spandex outfits, absorbent wrist bands and headbands, new earbuds, and new athletic shoes — better get several of each to allow for laundry time — and then go to the nearest fitness club and sign up. Some would also recommend getting a treadmill and some weights for your home gym, as well as a Wii console and some exercise games. If your health is of any value to you at all, a few thousand dollars will be well worth the investment.

Or you could go for a walk.

It’s not nearly as dramatic, though. For one thing, it’s free.

There’s no learning curve. You already know how to do it. And you can do it practically anywhere. You don’t need any special equipment other than a decent pair of shoes, and you probably have those already. And it’s not complicated, either. To quote from a Medical Examiner article from our dusty archives, here is the complete set of instructions for walking 20 minutes per day: 1. Leave your house or office.

2. Walk for 10 minutes.

3. Turn around.

4. Walk back.

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16 FOR ‘16… from page 2 No, walking is not only simple, it is extremely beneficial, especially if done regularly. And unlike jogging for a mile or two or three — which not everyone can do — walking carries one of the lowest injury risks of any physical activity.

In short, there is a lot to recommend when it comes to walking. But it’s only one of 16 suggestions for possible inclusion in your final short list of definite plans for a better, more active you in 2016 (not that you can’t begin immediately and get a jump on ’16).

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Nearly all of us — even doctors and nurses — are sometimes patients. Perhaps you were recently injured playing your favorite sport, or years ago you somehow got hurt without even leaving your favorite recliner. Maybe you were diagnosed with a dreaded disease, mugged in a dark and lonely parking lot, or you stubbed your toe in the safety of your own bedroom. On the other hand, perhaps you needed medical attention 5,000 miles from home. Whatever your medical experience, we’d like to hear your story for our Medicine in the First Person feature. It can be frightening or funny, ordinary or extraordinary, just a few paragraphs long or quite a lengthy tale, bylined or anonymous. We’ll publish your encounters with the medical profession as often as we receive them. + Send your submissions for Medicine in the First Person to the Augusta Medical Examiner via e-mail: info@AugustaRx.com or to PO Box 397, Augusta, GA 30903-0397. (The Medical Examiner reserves the right to accept, reject, or edit any submission at its sole discretion.)

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Anyone who does that four or five times a week will be handsomely rewarded. Feel free to start with a 10 minute walk if you wish.

(Walk five, turn around, walk back) Work your way up to half an hour out, half an hour back.

That’s another benefit of walking: it’s easy to perfectly tailor it to exactly how much time you have available and exactly how much strength and stamina you have.

Despite the obvious ease of starting a walking program that fits you to a T, never think that walking is of little value, as though jogging a mile is the minimum expenditure for good health.

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lthough the gentleman pictured above was born more than 500 years ago, you almost certainly know his name — or at least what is named in his honor.

In 1562 and 1563, he published a groundbreaking series of anatomical treatises on the kidney, hearing, the venous system, and teeth. He is said to be the first person to make a detailed study of teeth, including the earliest clinical descriptions of the first and second dentitions, identification of the basic enamel and dentin composition of teeth, and attempting to solve the problem of sensitivity in teeth. His treatise on the kidney was the first work exclusively devoted to that organ, and contained the first identification of the adrenal gland.

His extensive anatomical knowledge came about from fortuitous opportunities to practice medicine. He was in 1549 the personal physician of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere in Rome, a position which led to his appointment as professor of anatomy at Rome’s Collegia della Sapienze. This position authorized him to obtain cadavers for dissection from two local hospitals.

He is credited with the first description of the stirrup bone in the ear, as well as the auditory canal linking the middle ear to the mouth (or nasopharynx), better known as the Eustachian tube. If you’ve ever wondered where that tube got its name, the man pictured above is Bartolomeo Eustachi.

Previous anatomists had recorded their dissections in drawings and etchings for the benefit of medical science, but Eustachi made significant innovations. Others labeled anatomical landmarks on their drawings in one of two ways: letters or numbers drawn on various body parts which corresponded to a menu printed elsewhere; or lines drawn from the description to the relevant body part. Eustachi borrowed a method from cartographers and printed a legend around the margins of his illustrated plates. If you’ve ever looked for a location on a map that the legend told you was at, say D-7, where the vertical D line and the horizontal 7 line intersect, you know what Eustachi did, leaving the important drawings uncluttered by letters, numbers and lines.

Although Eustachi’s plates were extensive and dramatically better than those of his contemporaries (using color and taking less artistic license), he died before most of them were published. After his death, some illustrations were willed to his heirs, while others found their way into the Vatican Library where they were forgotten for nearly two centuries. They were eventually discovered and published in 1783. It is widely held that this lapse delayed the advance of the science of anatomy by more than a century.

Eustachi was fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Italian. In his later years he suffered from gout, and died in August of 1574 in his early 60s. +

NEVER TOO OLD TO GO TO PRISON

n October of 2012, Mr. Charles Gorrell was charged with shooting and killing his nephew, Tim Grooms, in the University Hospital room of his wife, Frances Gorrell, Tim Grooms’ aunt. Mr. Grooms held power of attorney for his aunt, and the two men had a disagreement over her medical care. She died two months after the shooting.

One wonders why she didn’t choose her own husband to have her POA, but that is another issue.

Mr. Gorrell’s physician, Dr. Bernardo, says Mr. Gorrell is suffering from congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, COPD and sixteen additional ailments. He is confined to a wheelchair, uses oxygen and is unable to sit for long periods of time and therefore, says the doctor, can’t endure a trial.

Mr. Gorrell is not presently being held in a jail cell. He is living in a nursing home where he receives visitors, interacts with other residents,

takes his meals in the community dining room and leaves the facility for doctor appointments.

He sounds pretty active for someone with so many ailments. There are clear contradictions about his physical condition, which was addressed by Judge Sheryl B. Jolly when she requested a review of Mr. Gorrell’s medical records.

There have been countless murder cases which involved a killer who was suffering from a terminal illness when the crime was committed. These criminals were fully aware they were dying and had nothing to lose.

They were still convicted.

It shouldn’t matter if Mr. Gorrell is 88 years old and ill or 28 and healthy. Why isn’t he

incarcerated while he awaits trial and sentencing? Because once he’s locked up he becomes a ward of the county, they are responsible for the costs of his medical care. Age and status of health should not be a get out of jail free card, but apparently they are.

Mr. Gorrell’s attorney and doctor are obviously in concert to make his age and health an issue they hope will mitigate his responsibility. The family of the victim is understandably upset over the justice delayed, and who can blame them?

Terry Grooms, brother of the deceased, expressed his frustration that Mr. Gorrell’s doctors have been saying he is near death for the last three years. He fears he may be back in court three years from now having the same conversation.

He told Judge Jolly: “For the past three years Charles Gorrell has been living as if my brother’s life was nothing...He has been able to enjoy holidays with family and other patients while my brother has not.”

At 88 years of age Mr. Gorrell is nearing the end of his life span. The delay in going to trial allows him to enjoy his freedom and prolongs the suffering of the Grooms family and friends. Mr. Gorrell very well could end up unpunished.

This is not justice. It is manipulation of the system and an accused killer’s play for pity. +

MYTH OF THE MONTH Treat diarrhea with a laxative The “logic” goes like this: your body is obviously trying to rid itself of something that disagrees with it, so anything you can do to assist in that effort is a good thing.

That is adding 2+2 and getting 5.

Why? For the same reason that some people think it’s not a good idea to drink liquids if you have diarrhea Makes sense, right? You obviously have too much liquid in your system; the last thing you need is more.

The reality is that just the opposite is true: a person with a serious case of diarrhea can quickly become dehydrated. The situation can be especially serious with children. Fluids are definitely needed, and helping diarrhea along

by using a laxative is a little bit like throwing gasoline on a fire so it will go out quicker; it’s going to make the situation worse, not better.

The best rehydration options are not what many people reach for: sports drinks. In fact, any sugary drink can make diarrhea worse. The best options include water, uncaffeinated low-sugar drinks, diluted fruit juices and broths.

Another need for water when diarrhea strikes: thoroughly washing your hands is one of the best ways to fight the germs + that cause diarrhea.

— by F. E. Gilliard, MD, Family Medicine 639 13th St Augusta, GA 30901 706-823-5250

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Bacteria that cause infections and kill humans.

People who drink alcohol and think they can drive a car safely.

Terrorists who commit violent acts and kill people while screaming “Allah Akbar.”

(Somehow I do not believe God intended for one man to force another man to believe what the first man believes on pain of death.)

People who think they have the only correct religion and feel compelled to force others to accept their belief. (I have enough trouble sorting out, understanding, and living by what I believe. I don’t think I should be able to force you to

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People who interrupt when someone else is speaking.

Angry women who think it is all right to push, shove, slap, hit, or in any way aggressively (physically or mentally) assault a man.

People who disrespect senior citizens.

Adults who are mentally or physically abusive to children. (In my opinion, that’s the lowest form of life

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Governments that legislate morals.

Laws that punish the productive (those who do work) and reward the nonproductive (those who do not work).

People who play their car radios so loud that they drown out my radio.

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People who steal or borrow or in any way take medications prescribed for another.

People who want to destroy the most productive and free country in the world.

People who mistreat or abuse animals.

People who intentionally run over turtles in the roadway.

People who buy potted plants and fail to water and maintain them.

People whose Saturday night behavior in no way reflects their Sunday morning behavior.

Women who wear revealing

People who make predatory loans to the less fortunate of our society.

People who drive fancy cars and take expensive vacations while not paying child support.

And I have a particularly low opinion of those who do not say Ma’am, Sir, and please.

If you read these, I’m sure you have many more of your own that you can add. So do I. But there is limited space to what we can print here.

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Both sides in this annual discussion have their valid points.

On the negative side, by the time you read this many carefully made resolutions may have already slipped a little.

Statistically, by this date (January 9) 25 percent of all resolutions have already gone down in flames; that many usually fail within the first week. By the six-month mark the failure rate is about half. And by this time next year, the wreckage of 88 percent of all those shiny new intentions of last week’s New Year’s Day 2015 will lie strewn across the landscape.

On the plus side, that means a fairly decent 12 percent of all resolutions are achieved after a full year.

Building on that positive note, making New Year’s resolutions is evidence of one of the finest aspects of human nature — that we continuously evaluate ourselves and constantly strive to improve, to be better husbands or wives, better moms and dads, better employees, better bosses, and just better human beings.

The typical resolutions reflect those basic desires: the #1 resolution every year is always some form of better health. Lose weight. Get more exercise. Eat less junk food or fast food. Eat less, period. Quit smoking. Drink less, or quit altogether.

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Speaking of currency, improving finances is, broadly speaking, the second most popular resolution category.

Common examples include establishing and/or sticking to a budget; saving more; cutting impulse buys; getting a better job, a raise, or a promotion.

The third-most common resolutions might be categorized as self-improvement: read more; temper control/ anger management; reduce or manage stress; watch less TV; get more education: learn a new language, skill, or hobby; improve your marriage and other personal relationships, and so forth.

All of these are worthy goals. They are well worth pursuing, even if that means getting past occasional setbacks.

Since failure is always an option, it’s good to expect it and be ready to keep making progress. There is nothing magical about January 1. If you haven’t made some kind of self-improvement goal, it’s never too late. If you’ve started and failed already, restarts are always allowed.

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Southern Girl Eats Clean Apple Cranberry Stuffing — Delicious, Nutritious and Gluten-Free

On Thanksgiving, in this part of the South we serve “dressing” with our turkey and gravy. It is usually a cornbread dressing made with day old cornbread. The cornbread dressing is not usually stuffed into the turkey; as a rule, it is baked separately in a baking dish. There are many different recipes for dressing, varying from family to family. I personally used to make mine with crumbled cornbread, onions, celery, seasoning and chicken broth.

In an effort to prepare healthier holiday meals I have changed things up a bit. Instead of a traditional cornbread dressing, this Apple Cranberry Stuffing has been on our table for the last two years.

Using gluten free bread cubes, apples, dried cranberries, walnuts, onion, celery, parsley makes for a more nutritional stuffing and to me, more festive and flavorful than plain old cornbread dressing. I call this a “stuffing” recipe because it has a completely different 6. In a separate mixing bowl, • 1- 2 Tbsp. of ghee (clarified texture than dressing. It’s whisk together chicken broth butter) or regular butter if you more crumbly..... like a and eggs and pour over the prefer. stuffing. bread cube mixture. Stir Give this recipe a try well to moisten all of the Directions and introduce something ingredients.

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Very little if anything about healthcare is inexpensive, and that includes medicine. Tiny pills can command large prices. Over-the-counter medications may be less expensive, but are they also less effective? Find the answers to lots of your drug store questions in this column written by Augusta pharmacists Chris and Lee Davidson exclusively for the Medical Examiner.

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here are times in life that I have questioned why in the world I got into this profession. Anyone who knows me knows that there is a funny story behind how I ended up here, but for now we will just call it fate since that is a story in and of itself. When I sit back and think about it, though, I realize that I live life the way I do because of a couple of things I learned along the way.

We have all had those professors or mentors who said something that made a difference. It might have been something profound and lifealtering, or maybe it was something that at the time sounded so ridiculous that it just stuck and we never forgot it. Either way, it becomes part of who we are and how we live. Good or bad. In my case, two things that I learned as a pharmacy student really stuck with me and essentially changed who I am in the process.

“Treat everyone like you would want your grandmother to be treated.” It sounds so simple, this play on The Golden Rule, but it really makes sense. Go beyond how you would want to be treated yourself and you can’t go wrong. I use this daily, whether I am the pharmacist or the customer. I repeat this phrase to every student I get, just as that Revco pharmacist said it to me so many years ago. If everyone operated this way, the world would be a much nicer place.

“Don’t forget to get the boll weevils out of the cotton.”

While not as self-explanatory, this one has two meanings to me. The pharmacist who said this to me was teaching me to check the cotton plug that comes out of the stock medication bottles for any wayward pills, especially certain tiny ones, because they may get stuck.

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Over the years, though, the boll weevil phrase has grown to take on a whole new meaning: DIG DEEPER, since things are not always as they seem. People get mired down in the details of their lives and their situations can change how they act and react on a daily basis. A person’s attitude can be dictated by how they feel, if they have drama at home, if their job is going well, etc. So many things can change how someone may act on any given day. For example, the lady who snaps at you at the cash register every Tuesday morning may have a chronically ill parent to take care of and this is her only time out of the house – you just happen to be the one who takes the brunt of it. Through artful conversation and determination of the issue, a different level of understanding is available. The customer often appreciates someone just smiling and asking how things are going. (I’m not recommending being a busy-body and getting in everyone’s business, but in this business we get to know people pretty well.) How we act or react to someone can change our whole day, and theirs as well.

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DON’T LICK THE BEATERS Useful food facts from dietetic interns with the Augusta Area Dietetic Internship Program

FAD DIET? MORE LIKE BAD DIET

by Chandler Norris, Dietetic Intern

In the world of nutrition there are so many fads, rumors and myths. What’s healthy?

What’s nutritious? With the lines so often blurred by fitness magazines, wild health claims for supplements, and at least one of your friends on social media that thinks they have found the secret key to weight loss (everyone seems to have one of those friends), it can be tough to know where to begin.

As a student with a degree in Nutrition and Food Science and will soon be Registered Dietitian, I hope to bring some clarity to all of the ludicrous nutritional fallacies.

Let’s travel through time for a moment to see how fad diets evolved and what motivated them to start. In the 1930s there was actually a diet plan called

THREE “DOS” THREE “DON’TS” the “Grapefruit Diet” which was a low-calorie diet requiring its participants to eat grapefruit at every meal. Cleansing and detoxing diet trends are seen as early as the 1940s in the US, but long before they were being used by the ancient Egyptians.

By the 1950s the Cabbage Soup Diet emerged promising weight loss of 10–15 pounds a week by eating a restricted diet including cabbage soup every day.

Fast-forward to the ’80s and research had identified red meat as a cause of heart disease, so people began to look to carbohydrates for health.

Turning that belief upsidedown, the Atkins Diet became popular in the 90s saying that red meat, bacon, and cheese are all right to eat on a regular basis, but to stay away from carbohydrates almost entirely.

While the promotional ads for these diets are very promising, with claims such as “Lose 10 Pounds in a Week,” it is easy to be misled and wind up dreading the idea of dieting at all.

I would like to take a moment to help identify and define a “fad” diet. If a diet plan guarantees drastic results in a short amount of time, it is most definitely a fad diet. Overall health and wellness is not achieved overnight and cannot be achieved by a six-week plan.

Rather, it requires a lifestyle of health. For that matter, if a diet claims that you will lose weight and be healthy without exercise or physical activity, this too is a fad diet. Good nutrition and physical activity go hand in hand. Whether you want to reduce risk of the heart disease that runs in your family or even just fit into that old pair of jeans, proper nutrition and physical activity are necessary pieces to the puzzle. Lastly, if a diet plan tells you to eliminate macronutrients — including carbohydrates, fat, and protein — it is a fad diet. All of these macronutrients play a crucial Please see FADS page 13

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THE DOCTOR IS IN It’s Movember all month long

by Darren Mack, M.D. This month as pink colored ribbons, water fountains, and football gloves give way to hairy upper lips, we take the time in my field of urology to spread awareness about important issues in men’s health. Akin to the Ice Bucket Challenge, Movember, an initiative of The Movember Foundation, has become an increasingly popular way for us to raise awareness about the issues affecting men in a very outward and public social platform. I personally started growing a moustache each November with my urology co-residents when the charity was in its earlier days, however it has a much deeper meaning to me today.

Most importantly, this charity gets the discussion started with both men and women about all things related to men’s health.

The mission of the Movember Foundation is to promote prostate and testicular cancer research, as well as focus on men’s overall mental and physical health.

Men often look to me and other urologists the way women view their gynecologist, as

Oxygen Fitness Studios in Augusta and Aiken will be hosting two charity fitness events to support the Movember Foundation on November 20th and 21st. All are welcome! the practitioner for both their specialty and some of their primary care. Because of the shared sentiment within the urologic community to take a leadership role in the health of our male patients, the Movember Foundation has started the MOVE campaign to get people to do something we don’t often do in the western world: move. Every day. For 30 days. Although smoking is at record low numbers, sitting is the new smoking, so we all

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Sometimes being a responsible pet owner means nothing more than getting down on their level. You can even take that literally if you wish, but figuratively works too.

Here’s what we mean.

How would you like to sit down at the table for supper and be greeted by the same plates that were there for lunch —and breakfast before that, not to mention last night’s supper and yesterday’s lunch?

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In fact, if you look at your plate closely you can actually see the remnants of those meals... a little ketchup here, some dried mashed potatoes there...

Sounds pretty nasty, doesn’t it? But you probably have already figured out where we’re going with this.

At this very moment you’re wondering, “How long has it been since I put the cat’s food bowl in the dishwasher? How long since the dog’s water bowl was cleaned?”

We chose those two specifically because maybe you feed your cat dry food.

It doesn’t really get the bowl that dirty. And a water bowl... all that’s ever in it is water, right? How dirty can it be?

Even so, the old “do unto others” maxim clearly applies.

You know the one.

need to get out and move more.

With the recent events in Paris in mind, every man’s mental, social, and physical wellness is of utmost importance. In our constantly changing world, we live in a time when being healthier sons, fathers, and husbands is crucial to our own well-being and those we care about. To effect more positive change in this world, we need the clarity and mental focus that comes with making our health a priority more than ever before. This month, if you see a man taking the time out of his day to actively improve his physical and mental fitness, let him know you appreciate his effort. + Dr. Darren Mack is a graduate of the Medical College and is a urologist with offices in Evans and Aiken. He may be reached at (803) 716David Russell Photography 8712 The information provided in this article is not a substitute for an evaluation by a licensed health care provider.

If those bowls need regular cleaning (and they do), the ones used for wet pet foods do so even more.

When we say “regular” just one sentence after invoking the “do unto others” rule, that suggests “regular” is just another word for “daily.”

Another relevant application: chew toys. Isn’t it amazing how a pair of expensive and durable shoes that would have lasted years under normal conditions can be destroyed in a few short hours in the jaws of a furry friend? And yet they make toys for dogs that they can chew on every day for months at a time.

Why can’t they use that material for our shoes? Alas, that is another subject for another time and another publication. The Shoe Examiner, perhaps.

But again, you see the point. Not to be too gross here — this is a family newspaper — but those toys have your dog’s dried slobber all over them. Don’t they deserve a regular vacation inside the sanitizing confines of your dishwasher too?

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From the Bookshelf The blog spot — Posted by Kathleen McFadden on Oct. 31, 2015 at kevinmd.com

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO MY PATIENTS To be a third year medical student is to enter a world that few understand. The pressure of constant evaluation, the stress of doing well in the field which you want to enter, and the fear of making a mistake often haunt the very long days and nights which characterize the most physically exhausting year of medical school.

Yet quite frequently as I move through this year I find myself feeling one thing: thankful.

And therefore, to my patients, to each and every one of you who don’t roll your eyes when a student enters the room but instead welcomes me in, I say thank you.

• Thank you for allowing me to learn from the most difficult situations of your life.

• Thank you for allowing me to be present for the most intimate conversations, the most challenging decisions.

• Thank you for letting me help to find your baby’s heart tones for the first time, to deliver your baby, to cut the cord, to hold your child as he or she takes a first breath.

• Thank you for being willing to talk to me when your child is sick, for allowing me to learn how to be a better clinician by walking with you through life’s darkest moments. For allowing me to be in the room when you are told your child has leukemia. For trusting me to give a vaccine for the first time. For letting me wake your little one up in the wee hours of the morning and smiling as you tell me the details of a story that five other people have already asked you.

• Thank you for the smile of support when I bumble as I ask you about your hypertension or chronic kidney disease. For understanding that I’m just as scared sometimes as you are. For telling me the intimate details of your life—the fears, the concerns, the anxiety, the depression, the daily struggles. For trusting me enough to tell me honestly why you aren’t able to watch your diet or to take your medications.

• Thank you for allowing me to stand in your room in the dark days as you fight cancer and chronic disease, and suffer in pain.

For allowing me to scrub in on the surgery where your potentially life ending tumor is removed. For allowing me to be the hands that help to intubate you for your procedure, that place your IV, that close your incision, that pack your wound, and that change your dressing each day. For smiling at me each morning even though you are still in pain.

• Thank you for all that you give to me. For the multitude of lessons each of you has taught me. For caring about my education.

For trusting me, encouraging me, inspiring me, and for forming the doctor I one day will be...

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THANK YOU to each and every one of my patients

Kathleen McFadden is a medical student.

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If this book didn’t have the word “epic” in the title, we would be forced to mount a campaign of some kind to have it included.

But no such protest is necessary. Epic Measures is the perfect title. This book describes one doctor’s effort to do something so enormous it’s almost unimaginable: create a living, active database of the entire world’s aches and pains, large and small.

It’s not hard to picture something like that being undertaken by the United Nations or the World Health Organization. But one doctor?

Christopher Murray, the medical doctor profiled in this book, realized the enormity of the task, but also its importance.

How do you tackle the biggest health problems on the planet if you don’t know what they are? How do you know the collective health of humans if the data is scattered around the globe?

What are people dying from most often in Belgium? What affliction do people suffer from the longest in Japan?

What cause of death has

dropped the most in the U.S? Before Murray came along, the health camera could take only two pictures. One pictured length of life, the other, cause of death.

In other words, someone who suffered for decades from migraines or back pain or arthritis or blindness or depression, yet who died in their sleep at age 87 looks pretty good, statistically speaking.

The database built by Murray corrects this, telling not only how we die but how we live.

This would be a good

time to acknowledge that not everyone likes statistics.

To some people no subject is more dry and boring.

However, this is a book that reads a lot like a novel, and a very good one at that. It will keep you turning its pages.

But let’s say you don’t run out (or log on) and buy this book. You can still see Murray’s remarkable achievment for yourself.

Visit healthdata.org and you can see visual depictions of every major (and minor, down to fractions of a percent) cause of disease, disability and death on Earth through the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) “data visualization suite.” Click on the image of squares and rectangles that looks like Kansas from the air. It will take you a few minutes to become familiar with the graph. Dark colors are declining conditions; light colors are on the rise. The bar on the right identifies +the colors’ meaning.

Epic Measures - One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients, by Jeremy N. Smith, 352 pages, published in April 2015 by Harper Wave

Research News Removing the sugar-coating An interesting study at UC San Francisco published in late October reveals the importance of sugar as a health threat to children.

When 43 obese children with at least one metabolic syndrome disease were placed on a diet that restricted sugar intake, they experienced striking improvements their health in as little as 10 days without reducing calories or losing weight.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions — increased blood pressure, high blood glucose level, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels — that occur together and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

The children’s diets during the study were ordinary “kid food” (chips, pizza, hot dogs, etc.) purchased at local supermarkets except that total dietary sugar was reduced from 28 percent to 10 percent of their diet, and fructose likewise from

12 to 4 percent.

The diet was designed to maintain each child’s weight and calorie levels at the start of the study unchanged, addressing and isolating only sugar consumption.

After 9 days on the sugarrestricted diet, every aspect of the participants’ metabolic health improved: triglycerides were down 33 points, LDL (“bad”) cholesterol by 10 points, diastolic bp was down 5mm, insulin levels were cut by onethird, fasting blood glucose dropped by 5 points, and liver function tests improved.

The study’s lead author said the study demonstrates that “sugar is metabolically harmful not because of its calories or its effect on weight; rather sugar is metabolically harmful because it’s sugar.”

Start yesterday There is an old maxim that says our health today is a snapshot of our entire life’s habits.

New research confirms that children and young adults who

ate more than five servings of fruits and vegetables were less likely, when tested twenty years later, to have coronary calcium buildup, a key risk factor for heart disease and heart attack.

Of more than 2,500 study participants tracked for 20 years, the top third in terms of fruit and vegetable consumption had 26 percent lower odds of having coronary plaque accumulations compared to the group in the lowest third of dietary fruits and vegetables.

“People shouldn’t wait until they’re older to start eating healthy,” said the study’s lead author.

Of course, that is easier said than done.

As every parent knows, getting small children to eat vegetables can be challenging at times, yet the same children may grow up to enjoy carrots, peas and beets as adults.

Pediatricians recommend offering children a new food (like peas or carrots) on at least four consecutive days to allow taste buds to adjust to new flavors. +

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One cockroach asked the other, “Have you ever been inside this restaurant?”

“No. You?” “Yeah, I snuck into the kitchen last night.

I could not believe how clean the place is.

It’s spotless. I could practically see my own reflection in the shiny waxed floor.”

The other cockroach spit out his food and angrily said, “Do you mind? I’m trying to eat.”

An American, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are all watching a street performer doing a juggling act.

A large crowd begins to gather and the juggler notices the four gentleman now have a very poor view, so he stands up on a wooden crate and calls out, “Can you all see me better now?”

They answer.

“Yes.” “Oui.” “Sí.”

“Ja.”

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An Irishman, a priest, a rabbi and a horse all walk into a bar.

The bartender asks, “Is this some kind of a joke?”

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, two Kiwis, a German, an American, a Canadian, a South African, a Frenchman, a Japanese, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Swede, a Finn, a Dane, an Egyptian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Bulgarian, a Norwegian, a Libyan, an Italian, a Serb, a Russian and an Ethiopian walk up to the front door of a bar.

The bouncer says, “I’m sorry, but this is a classy place. You can’t come in here without a Thai.”

I know a guy so dumb that when he saw a sign in Orlando that said “Disney World Left,” he turned around and came back home.

What is the difference between a poorly dressed man on a bicycle and a handsomely dressed man on a unicycle?

Attire.

I hate religious intolerance. And Muslims.

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role in the body’s proper functioning.

Now that we have established what fad diets are, let’s talk about what it means to eat a truly healthy diet. In order to do so, I would like to present three do’s and three don’ts.

First, DO eat a variety of food. Try not to get stuck in the habit of only eating foods that you have been eating your whole life. Branch out and eat those fruits and vegetable that you would not typically eat (#coloryourplate).

DO seek to achieve balance. This can mean two things. One, eating a balanced diet can mean choosing foods from each food group (protein, fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy). Two, it can mean balancing energy or calorie intake and expenditure. For example, if I eat 3,000 calories a day, but I never get off my couch and do not exercise, it is safe to say that high calorie intake and low calorie expenditure will result in weight gain.

DO control your portions. It can be easy to overeat, especially when eating with distractions around like television, friends, or children. Choosing healthy serving sizes can be tough, but one helpful tip is to slow down. Slowing down when you eat allows your body to recognize that you’re full and to stop eating or even control how much is put on your plate at a time.

DON’T eat it just because it says “diet,” “lean,” “reduced,” “fatfree,” etc. Health claims posted in large print on the front of the label don’t cancel out the bad stuff in small print on the back of the package. At the end of the day make sure that you are reading food labels and are aware of what you are putting in your body.

DON’T skip meals. If you skip one meal, it’s easy to overeat at the next meal. For optimum health I recommend eating three regular meals a day, along with a snack. This will allow you to deliver nutrition to your body at four separate times during the day rather than just once or twice.

DON’T graze. Grazing occurs when small amounts of food — usually snack foods — are consumed between meals throughout the day in place of balanced meals.

At the end of the day there are unfortunately many challenges to living a healthy lifestyle. If you are unsure about how to implement these nutrition tips or are unsure how to overcome difficult obstacles to achieving a healthy diet, consult a dietitian, not a magazine or someone advertising a weight loss supplement making far-fetched claims.

In summary, don’t choose the fad; choose a lifestyle of health.

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