No Grain, No Pain: Editorial Review by JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS, Author of The Virgin Diet and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – The whole-grain goodness myth reigned supreme when I began training clients a few decades ago. To even question whether cereal or oatmeal could become unhealthy seemed akin to blasphemy within the nutrition world. Regardless of popular opinion, I often noticed...

No Grain, No Pain The Book

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – This year, I wrote a book titled No Grain, No Pain. This book is the culmination of my 15 years of research and clinical experience into the realm of the gluten free world. My journey began in the VA hospital after seeing patient after patient suffer with...

No Grain, No Pain

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – Maybe you’ve been told that your pain is “all in your head.” Perhaps you’ve tried a variety of different therapies and prescription drugs without success. You’re tired, you’re hurting, and you’re fed up. It happens to countless Americans every...

Love Yourself This Month with High-Tech Medical Imaging

By Trish Johnson – There is just no other month better to be in love than February. February 14th – St. Valentine’s Day – is known as the day of love as folks shower each other with candy, cards and flowers. But a couple of other days in February also make it the best time to love a very...

No Grain, No Pain: Editorial Review by JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS, Author of The Virgin Diet and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet

The whole-grain goodness myth reigned supreme when I began training clients a few decades ago. To even question whether cereal or oatmeal could become unhealthy seemed akin to blasphemy within the nutrition world. Regardless of popular opinion, I often noticed when my clients ate grains and other so-called...

No Grain, No Pain

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – The following is an excerpt from Dr. Osborne’s new book, No Grain, No Pain. Maybe you’ve been told that your pain is “all in your head.” Perhaps you’ve tried a variety of different therapies and prescription drugs without success. You’re tired,...

Natural Approaches for Eliminating Arthritis

Do you find you are experiencing pain in your joints? Are your knees, shoulders, hips or hands causing you discomfort? Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease in which the cartilage breaks down causing pain, swelling and loss of motion in the joint.1 It is common for most people to experience symptoms of OA by the...

Your Food Is Causing Your Pain

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – Back pain is the fifth most common reason for doctor visits in the United States. Direct costs of back pain on the health care system are estimated to be greater than 50 billion dollars per year.  It is estimated that 80 percent of the population will have back...

Community Health Care for the Greater Good

By Zeenat Kassam Mitha – When a community comes together to bring low cost medical and dental care to the uninsured or the underinsured or those who cannot afford health care, it gets acknowledgment from the Governor of Texas. During his last week in office, Governor Rick Perry spent time in Houston...

Colorectal Cancer Affects One out of 18 Americans

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the United States. “Because of screening tests, colorectal cancer can be caught early, increasing the survival rate for those diagnosed with the...

Consumers’ Research Council of America Honors Dr. Peter Chang

A plastic surgeon’s level of education, experience and skill are undoubtedly the most important aspects influencing prospective patient selections. The greater the training and background, the more understanding a plastic surgeon is to the aesthetic desires impacting this modern age. Dr. Peter Chang at...

OakBend Medical Center Announces Dr. Enrique Hernandez

Dr. Enrique Hernandez is considered a new breed of interventional cardiologists.  He completed fellowship training in General Cardiology at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in New York, Interventional Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where he developed expertise in complex coronary...

Houston Methodist Primary Care Group Welcomes Dr. Paul Tse

Houston Methodist Primary Care Group is pleased to welcome internal medicine specialist Dr. Paul Tse. Dr. Tse will join Dr. Adrianne Scruggs, also an internal medicine physician, with Houston Methodist Primary Care Group, located at 4660 Sweetwater Boulevard, Suite 210 in Sugar Land. Dr. Tse is board...

Thyroid Disease: Can Gluten and Vitamin Deficiency Be to Blame?

FOCUS ON HEALTH | By Dr. Peter Osborne – Thyroid Disease and Dysfunction Classic signs of thyroid hormone deficiency include fatigue, memory loss, cold hands and feet, muscle and joint pain, depression, high cholesterol and constipation. Over the past several years, I have seen a large influx of...

Fort Bend First: Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital Physicians Perform New Procedure to Relieve Post-Surgical Abdominal Pain

Physicians at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital recently performed Fort Bend’s first transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with laparoscopic colon surgery to minimize post-surgical pain. TAP blocks numb the nerves supplying the anterior abdominal wall prior to abdominal surgery. They are performed...