It seems silly, or at least unnecessary, to post a blog reminding people to drink water – something that we’ve been doing all of our lives. Yet, almost every day people wind up in hospital emergency rooms with cases of dizziness, fainting, muscle fatigue, confusion and other symptoms of reduced cognitive functioning because of dehydration. …
Some people say that they hate to exercise, and then they go out and prove it by leading a sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle. But I’m always intrigued by others who claim to hate exercising, but comfortably spend hours doing housework, yard maintenance and gardening, taking walks to shop or spend time with friends in the…
There are a number of wonderful medications that provide benefits to a targeted physiologic process or area of your body. Some even do more than one helpful thing. But there is no drug that does so much for you as exercise and other physical activity. A regular program of exercise obviously helps with muscle tone,…
Researchers who study a particular topic don’t always agree with each other’s conclusion, but one subject on which there is universal agreement is the importance of movement. A sedentary lifestyle ranks right up there with smoking and obesity as health destroyers and longevity reducers. Movement has not only been found to be good for your…
Exercise is in fashion these days. When I was growing up, the only gyms that I knew about were in schools or community centers. They tended to be large rooms with very little equipment, no weights, and generally designed for team sports such a basketball, volleyball, or dodgeball. Nowadays, if you live in a city…
It’s been said that the best way to earn $2,000,000 is to take $1,000,000 and invest it safely and wisely – and in a few years you will have $2,000,000. The only problem with that idea is that you must have $1,000,000 in order to implement it. Similar advice might apply when it comes to…
When working with people to help them change habits for the betterment of their lifestyles and health, I’m often met with a response on the order of, “I really want to – but it’s hard.” It seems like an acceptable excuse for not going on a diet, not implementing an exercise program, not going back…
This blog is being written at the end of Thanksgiving weekend in America. I hope that you had a chance to celebrate with family and friends, and I hope that you all found lots of reasons to feel grateful and give thanks. I started thinking that I may never have adequately given thanks to those…
The more that I got used to drinking water, the better it tasted to to me – and now I almost always choose water over a sugary drink. The more that I ate salads, the more it became my preferred lunchtime meal (and often my preferred dinner too), and now – despite living in Philadelphia…
After having a perfectly good smart phone and not being able to justify the purchase of a new one for about 4 years, I recently joined technology’s modern world and bought an iPhone 6. Among it’s many features, it came preloaded with an App that counts how many steps you take during the course of…
The Mental Fitness Game Changer (Transcription) Hi everybody! This is Dr. Ron Kaiser with your May 2014 audio pod cast from the mental health gym. Today I would like to talk about a concept that I developed a few years ago called “The Proactive Positive Explosion”. It was really based upon years of working with patients and…