Straight Talk About Straight Hair
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on August 28th, 2013 Tags: hair, personal careWhen it comes to our hair, we often want what we haven’t got. This seems particularly true when it comes to glossy, straight hair. Practically no one is born with it, so we end up forcing our hair into the style we want.
As someone who’s always had curly hair, I’m married to my anti-frizz cream. But I use curling irons and blow dryers to …
Food Label Findings
By Marisa Weiss, M.D. on August 15th, 2013 Tags: food labels, healthy eating, healthy habitsRecently while grocery shopping, I came across a box of tasty-looking breakfast bars. The front of the box promised they’d give me nutritious, sustained energy, but the food label on the back told me the real story. The bars had less fiber and protein and more sugar and sodium (salt) than my usual breakfast cereal. Yikes! They were really just cookies in disguise.
It wasn’t …
