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8 Ancient Sayings To Inspire Health & Happiness

8 Ancient Sayings To Inspire Health & Happiness

      In a world of conflicting advice from all sorts of health and fitness professionals, it's easy to lose sight of the most important principles of health. I find it refreshing and a breath of fresh air to return to the wisdom of some of the greatest...

Maimonides

Maimonides

Maimonides (Greek name) is also known as Rambam (Hebrew name). Volumes have been written on Rambam’s life and works (1135–1204). All I offer is a very brief bird’s–eye view of this truly great man, with a special emphasis on his medical contribution to society. Rambam...

How Ancient Wisdom Can Help You Lose Weight

How Ancient Wisdom Can Help You Lose Weight

David Zulberg’s five skinny habits to drop those pounds for good. The New Year brings a fresh start and a renewed sense of hope to become the best version of yourself. Resolutions range from getting a promotion to spending more time with your family to the most...

Red Wine: Superfood or Poison?

Make this double-agent drink work for you, not against you. Your wine-loving friends swear by the health benefits of red wine, while your dry friends tell you to avoid it like the plague. So which view is correct? The answer may be both, because red wine can both...

Biting back at the dog: Hangover 101

Biting back at the dog: Hangover 101

The expression “Hair of the dog” is one that would likely sound strange to foreigners or aliens dropped into our midst the morning after we’ve been over-served, but many partiers know it refers to drinking more alcohol in order to lessen the effects of a hangover....

Healthy Chanukah Eating in 8 Easy Steps

Healthy Chanukah Eating in 8 Easy Steps

Here’s how to enjoy Chanukah feasts, without overdoing it. Chanukah is the Jewish eight-day festival of light, celebrating the triumph of light over darkness, spirituality over materialism, and mind over matter. Over 2000 years ago, the Greeks tried to force Hellenism...

How to get through work hungover

How to get through work hungover

The Morning After 'Tis the season for getting tipsy as our calendars fill with holiday parties, happy hours, and festive gatherings with family and friends. Chances are, you'll wake up one morning from one of these shindigs with the telltale pounding headache,...

5 Reasons Why Diets Fail

5 Reasons Why Diets Fail

In our world of cutting-edge medicine, we are still suffering from startling health statistics: more than half of the United States population is overweight or obese. Everyone wants to be slim and trim. Flooded with conflicting advice and false promises this dream of...

5 Ancient Habits to Help You Lose Weight Today

5 Ancient Habits to Help You Lose Weight Today

Sticking to a healthy diet was simple in ancient times, when physicians like Hippocrates and the Roman doctor Galen—who studied obesity-related diseases 1,800 years ago—advised the masses on how to achieve wellness. According to David Zulberg, author of The 5 Skinny...

Newsday Review

Newsday Review

Book Nook: '5 Skinny Habits' review November 14, 2014 by PEGGY BROWN / peggy.brown@newsday.com THE 5 SKINNY HABITS: How Ancient Wisdom Can Help You Lose Weight and Change Your Life Forever, by David Zulberg. Rodale, 242 pp., $24.99. While tackling his own weight...

How to Enjoy Thanksgiving Without Chucking Your Diet

How to Enjoy Thanksgiving Without Chucking Your Diet

Can you have your turkey and eat it, too, without coming out looking like one? Columbia University MS, David Zulberg (media appearances include ABC’s “Viewpoints,” Pix 11’s “Dr. Steve,” CBS’s “Live from the Couch” and more) says you can, with a helping of THE 5 SKINNY...