June 7, 2010
Institute For Medical Wellness Healthy Living
Report
Moorestown Day has come and gone!
I would like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth
Saturday, for Moorestown Day.
We had a few volunteers who chose to speak with us about
our medical wellness philosophy and services. We
also performed blood pressure screenings as shown below.
As with any outdoor event, we were at the whim of Mother
Nature. While she spared us any rain, she did not spare
the heat and humidity.
It was hot!! Luckily, the gentleman shown above was in
the neighboring tent, and he had a nice display of
sunrooms, windows and doors. So when it really got hot
out, he nicely opened the windows for us to allow a
breeze ; )
There was plenty of downtime. Jessica, our whirling
dervish of a medical assistant always needs something to
do to pass the time. Here is a picture of what she does
best. Shopping!
But it was not all downtime. The busiest time of the
day, as usually happens, occurred at lunchtime. Now most
of you know I have fairly strong views on diet and
health. You also know that I prefer to keep to a low
processed carbohydrate diet. Now, not everyone is
perfect, and most people who try to be, tend to get
frustrated and irritable. I do not like to be frustrated
or irritable, and I am human, just like you! So, I get
to rationalize my Moorestown Day food choices, to allow
myself an exception that is hard for me to say "No".
Can anyone guess what it was?
Here is a clue.
It rhymes with tomato.
It is not Gumbo, nor Merlot or
Bordeaux.
It is usually deep fried in
peanut oil.
If you guessed French fried "potato", you are correct!
My addiction to french fries began in my youth and has
lasted with me throughout my adulthood. Thank you Mom
and Dad! It In fact, I once came close to firing an
employee for throwing out extra french fries before
offering them to me. Remember, I said close!!!
So what do french fries have to
do with Moorestown Day. The largest crowd of the day
happened to arrive at lunchtime. When I know that I will be
confined to a 10 x10 area for six hours, my survival
instincts take over and I tend to "carb-it" when I am
hungry. Please do not look up "carb-it" in the dictionary.
You will not find it. But, as luck would have it, as soon as
I put a french fry into my mouth, literally, as soon as I
started to eat a french fry, someone comes to our tent and
asks to speak to the "Wellness doctor"? So what did I say to
this individual, looking for better health and wellness?
Simple! I asked if he had any ketchup for my fries ; )
I could look for nice nutritional things to write about
french fried potatoes, and I could provide many internet
links. But instead I will just say that I enjoyed the
fries, and I am still looking for a french fry support
group! I had belonged to one before, but it disbanded
after one meeting. It did not help that the meeting was
held next to McDonalds.
As I tell all my patients who have taken part in my
Healthy Weight Program. It is important to put the
right foods into your body. But if you strive for
absolute perfection, you will probably fail. I find it
best to find a good balance between safety, health and
happiness! This balance is another of the many reasons I
founded the Institute for Medical Wellness.
On another note, we started a RAFFLE
DRAWING with prizes listed below:
* Grand Prize #1 -
available for New patients only is a 3-month
Traditional Wellness Plan.
There are two second prizes
open to anyone:
* A free one hour
Naturopathic session with
Dr Jennifer
Phillips at our Moorestown office.
* A free one hour
therapeutic massage from
Julie
Fischer, our certified massage therapist.
The raffle began at Moorestown Day, but you can still
enter. Just send your name and email address to
drhorvitz@drhorvitz.com and put "raffle" in the
subject heading. You can only enter once, and winners
will be picked on or about June 30, 2010.
Red Meat- Good or Bad for you?
The answer is ---- Both!
Now wasn't that helpful?
Ok.
When we talk about red meat, we may be talking about a
steak.
We may also be talking about a hamburger or a hot dog.
They are all considered red meat, but they are very,
very different foods.
Without getting into any gory
details, a good carnivore usually enjoys a steak. There is
minimal food processing, and if you buy organic and grass
fed, it is even closer to an ideal protein and healthy fat
source.
How bout hamburgers and hot
dogs you say?
They are definitely a different
story. Hamburger meat is usually heavily processed, but not
as much as a hot dog.
Here is a link to a youtube video showing how hot dogs
are processed. And most hot dogs have other ingredients,
such as preservatives that have been shown to increase your
risk of many diseases. These preservatives can be very
powerful stuff. I recently spoke a retired school teacher,
who used to take his students on a field trip to the local
garbage dump. This is probably no worse than taking them on
a trip to the United States Congress.
Sorry bout that!!
An interesting thing occurred
at the dump. The students were testing different items to
see how fast they decomposed, and which items were most
biodegradable. Would you believe he found that hot dogs were
less biodegradable than some plastic cups? So if hot dogs do
not biodegrade in a dump, what is happening to them in your
colon?
The healthy pearl of the day.
Red meat that is minimally
processed, without added chemicals, hormones or
preservatives may indeed be healthy for you.
Red meat, such as hot dogs,
that are heavily processed, probably are not!!
Institute For Medical Wellness Supplements of
the Month:
Due to the great response, my supplements of the
month offer for June 2010 are the same as for
May 2010.
Vitamin D3- Liquid 2000iu per drop, 900
drops per bottle- regularly $20
plus
Probiotic Pearls- ProFlora Immune- 30
pearls, regularly $20.
Purchase these two supplements together for $30,
a 25% savings.
This offer can be used with other
Institute For Medical Wellness supplement
discount offers!!
Other Institute For Medical Wellness
Programs and Events:
To Good Health!
Steven Horvitz, D.O,
Board Certified Family Practice
Founder of The Institute For Medical Wellness
128 Borton Landing Road, Suite Two
Moorestown, NJ 08057
Phone 856-231-0590
Fax 856-294-0311
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I would like to thank everyone for their
confidence in my professional abilities and
referrals of new patient's to the practice as
well as to the
Wellness Plans. If you are presently
in the
Traditional Wellness Plan, and refer
a new patient to this plan, you will receive 1
month added on to your plan for the first
referral, and two months added on for every
other new patient you refer. Just my way of
saying Thank You for your confidence!!
It is always nice to get good feedback. Good
feedback tells me that I am definitely moving in
the right direction! So please check out our
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