Plastic surgery gives patients a physical change in their face or body that effects their brains in the same way as my beard did for me. Surgery changes the status-quo,…
adminOctober 12, 2011
Facial cosmetic plastic surgery is based on an understanding of these relationships and an attempt to recreate or actually form these relations where they did not exist before. The ratio…
adminFebruary 17, 2011
Why all this fuss about a doll? Because research shows that we are subconsciously affected by the body forms that we are presented with as being “normal”. We then internalize…
adminMay 6, 2011
Use carbs as a source for quick energy boost before sports or an exam / brain workout! Don’t use carbohydrates as your main source of calories. You will become sleepy…
adminMay 19, 2011
Forget the buffet; too much choice = eating more. You can actually lose weight if you eat the same thing everyday for every meal. Our eyes eat more than our…
adminMay 16, 2011
So, exercise is obviously VERY good for you. It’s just not a great way to loose weight. Just eat less if that is your goal. See my next blog about…
adminMay 9, 2011
There are a number of foods that we cannot eat due to individual health considerations. It has been a while since I eat an egg without some thought of its…
adminMay 12, 2011
Alcohol is good for you and is bad for you. Red wine is apparently the best type of alcohol to drink for the good effects. All alcohol, including wine, have…
adminNovember 4, 2011
Our Brains and Food A few weeks ago I ventured out of metropolitan Washington, DC to the vastness of our country. It is a large country, and, by god, it…
adminJanuary 16, 2012
As we eat the stomach wall becomes stretched and within twenty minutes sends a message to the brain to stop eating. That is that ‘I’m full” feeling.
adminJanuary 20, 2012
Too ugly for politics? Good looks and power in history I was just reading an article about the troubles of the former British Labour party leader, Ed Miliband. It appears…
adminFebruary 28, 2012
Last week I was a guest at a rather fancy dinner in a fancy club with fancy guests in Washington, DC. The other guests were diplomats and financiers, power brokers…
adminApril 2, 2012
Nude beaches problematic for plastic surgeons As a cosmetic plastic surgeon, I spend most of my day looking at and moving around the flesh of people in the nude. That…
adminApril 11, 2012
Sun tips for patients: Use sunscreen daily, cover up with hats and long sleeves when outside for long periods of time, stay in the shade and do not ever use…
adminJune 2, 2012
Our visual system is also open to manipulation by our emotional state but also by its basic hard wiring.
adminJune 11, 2012
In another Swiss research also involving chocolates, two groups were given questionnaires to fill out which included information about age, sex, and weight.
adminJuly 20, 2012
Instead, it seems to me, that those men's ugliness was not so much a product of their physical attributes but rather the personae they embodied within their physical forms.
adminAugust 24, 2012
Iced compresses Cool cucumber slices( yes- that’s all they’re doing at the spa!) Hemorrhoidal cream - which actually is a steroid to decrease swelling of tissue including skin of the…
adminOctober 10, 2012
Most active adults need about 2000 calories a day. Calories derived from food and drink. That equates to roughly 20 handfuls of food with each handful having about 100 calories…
adminJanuary 13, 2013
