
Getting to a Healthy Weight, One Good Choice at a Time
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on October 19th, 2011 Tags: exercise, health, healthy eating, weightLike most women, weight has always been a sensitive topic for me. My mother says I was a greedy breastfeeder. As a toddler I’d lick my plate and ask for seconds. Adolescence brought on more cravings and less willpower, and adulthood hasn’t been any easier.
I love to eat much too much, and, darn it, eating too much means weighing too much. Weight loss has …

Back to the Tap (Water)
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on October 5th, 2011 Tags: health, healthy habits, home, waterMany doctors recommend drinking 8 glasses of fluids a day to keep your systems flowing and going. Water is a much healthier zero-calorie beverage than soda, juice, or energy drinks. Clean drinking water straight from the tap was a great technological advance, and bottled water is an important backup for emergencies. In the last two decades though, bottled water sales skyrocketed as people turned away …