Vitamin D and calcium are essential for bone health and normal bodily metabolism. Parts of the medical community got overly enthusiastic in the last decade and suggested unnecessarily and possibly harmfully large intake of both nutrients. Sensible daily intake from diet and supplements is 1000 mg calcium and 1000 IU of vitamin D for most adults.
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A DEXA body composition scan can accurately and safely determine how much muscle and fat you have in your body and how the muscle and fat are distributed. Be Well Body Scan can do this test quickly and inexpensively.
One of Dr. Kanner’s patients describes her most trying experience with johnnies and invites others to share their experiences, as well as to reflect on the origin and name of the diabolical gown.
Dr. Kanner looks at a Norway study which separated the benefits of screening mammography from breast cancer treatment improvements. Mammography is clearly helpful, but the help may be more modest and come with more adverse effects than recognized before.
A preventive medicine task force just suggested that women not have mammograms in their 40’s and should only be screened every two years after that. And don’t bother with breast self-exam or your doctor’s breast exam. And the gynecologists’ task force declared that no women should have Pap smears before age 21 and less frequently thereafter. What to make of this? Ask your doctor, they say. How do we make sense of this?
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