Statistics: In a 2006 study, almost 25% of people surveyed reported insufficient rest or sleep for 14 or more days out of every month. Over 10% reported getting insufficient rest or sleep every day. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 50-70 million people in the United States have chronic sleep disorders.1 I see lots of people in my [...]
Obesity in Transylvania County: The statistics on obesity, especially in children, for Transylvania County that Stephanie Ramsey from the Transylvania County Department of Health gave us in the January 27th issue of the Transylvania Times were quite startling. She said that 39 percent of all elementary school children in TransylvaniaCounty are considered obese. This is a very scary statistic as this will become [...]
Cholesterol, as most of you know by now, is blamed for causing heart disease. It seems obvious that this must be the case, after all, isn’t heart disease caused by collecting plaques made of cholesterol? And don’t people who eat lots of cholesterol-containing foods get heart disease more often? This is certainly what we have been led to [...]
Hypothyroidism affects around 0.9% of men and 4.8% of women over 20 years-of-age with an additional 0.4% of males and 0.9% of females having undiagnosed hypothyroidism. Many people have mild or subclinical hypothyroidism and have no idea. 1 There is a bit of controversy surrounding optimal lab values. As with most things, some people who have a “normal” [...]
