Are You Getting Enough Omega 3s In Your Diet

Posted: August 31st, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

I thought that today I would go back to basics. If you’ve

been following this column for a bit, you know I like to

opine on everything under the sun. If I talked about

medicine every day, even the medical personnel would

get bored. But today, I’m going back to the product that

I first introduced a couple of dozen moons ago.

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Back in February of 2009, I started offering my Powerhouse

Omega Formula, a pharmaceutical grade fish oil that puts

some very important nutrients back into your body that almost

no one today gets by eating, alone.

According to Dr. David Leopold, the Director of Integrative

Medicine at the Scripps Center, in San Diego, pretty much

everybody is deficient in omega-3 fatty acids. This is why you

have to reintroduce them and balance out what you should have.

20 years ago, a recommendation from a doctor to take fish

oil supplements just wouldn’t happen, unless he, or she, was

pioneering the field of alternative medicine. But things have

changed in the past few years and what was once considered

outside current medical thinking…is now moving into the

mainstream of Medicine.

There have been so many studies done, that show positive

effects at all ages, that many of the walls of opposition are

falling down. Not all of them, mind you, but enough to make

a serious impact.

There are a number of benefits for fish oil, but near the top of

the list is their anti-inflammatory effect. Inflammation is regarded

as a major contributing cause for heart disease, arthritis and

many other chronic illnesses. Omega-3′s "cool the body off," toning

down inflammation, and help to prevent some of these diseases.

Omega-3′s have been shown to have a positive effect on depression

and other psychiatric conditions.

Omega-3′s can slash triglyceride levels by 20 to 50%. That is one of their

most consistent and reliable health promoting effects.

Omega-3′s can help in the cognitive development of children and

reduce their risk of developing ADHD and asthma, as teens.

If you already have heart disease, or have had a heart attack,

omega-3′s cut your risk of complications and death. They also

likely reduce your risk of stroke.

Another benefit of omega-3′s is that they can reduce your need

for other medications. Many patients, who take omega-3′s on a

regular basis, have been able to reduce the dosages of medications

prescribed. (Always consult you physician here…do not reduce

medications on your own.)

Fish oil…it isn’t just for hippies, anymore. Around here, we

pronounce that "high pies." In another few years, almost all

doctors will be recommending the use of fish oil. Just

remember that you get what you pay for. If you want that

foul-smelling stuff found on the shelves of stores, don’t

be surprised by the trots, horrendous belching and bad

breath.

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virtually guarantees you’ll never be burping up fish.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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Potpourri Day

Posted: August 30th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Sitting at my desk this morning, I just can’t narrow the

subject down to one item, because all kinds of things

are going on.

Over the latter part of the week past, Tennessee legend

Pat Summitt disclosed she had been diagnosed with early

onset dementia. Any discussion of basketball gods has

to include Summitt, who has won more games than anyone

in history, including Bobby Knight, Dean Smith, Mike

Krzyzewski, Lou Carneseca, John Thompson and a host

of others.

Pat Summitt became the head coach at Tennessee when

she was 22 years old and the upcoming season will be her

38th. When Summitt became the coach, chief cook and

bottle washer at Tennessee, only a handful of women even

played basketball. Almost four decades later, tens of thousands

of women play and they all owe a debt to Pat Summitt. Coach

Summitt is flat out a coach and she could coach men, or

women, on any level.

In her own inimitable style, Coach Summitt made her own

announcement of the diagnosis from the Mayo Clinic and it

included, "This isn’t going to be any pity party. I’m going to

make some adjustments and move on."

Beyonce is pregnant.

Most Democrats have an intellect rivaled only by garden tools.

An arctic seal walks into a bar. "What can I get you?" says

the bartender. "Anything but a Canadian Club." (Bada-BOOM!)

NYC Mayor Michael (Obama) Bloomberg has planned a

commemoration of 9/11 where God cannot be mentioned.

Bloomberg must be planning to take Uncle Joe (Huh?)

Biden’s place on the 2012 ticket. His approval rating is

exactly the same as the Annointed One… and falling just

as fast.

Of course, that means that the next candidate will be

…Alec Baldwin, who lives in a $9.5 million dollar apartment

in Manhattan, so he can stay close to the middle class.

It’s only a 20 minute limo ride to wherever they are. I’m

wondering if he’s going to use Twitter to communicate

with them.

I would vote against him just because he’s a vegan. That’s

the training ground for facists.

But on the bright side, he’s going to hold down the price

of wheatgrass. Is it just me…or does he not look a little

puffy from eating so healthy?

Alright, it’s time to put on the Allman Brothers’ "Live at

the Fillmore." It’s the only way to get the VMA Awards

out of my head.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

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How To Deternine If Youse Is A Wacist

Posted: August 29th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

From my vantage point on the deck, it looks like Hurricane

Irene has blown itself out. There sure was a lot of hype for

a storm that wasn’t nearly as big as advertised. Up north of

here, a friend of mine called to say that it was much worse

than when the weatherfolks say snow is coming. He witnessed

an incident in Home Depot where a woman went on full tilt,

because the store was out of D batteries.

My question about this kind of behavior is the same one I

always ask: "Why aren’t you prepared year round?" When

I lived in New York, I had a special cabinet for "events."

It had flashlights, batteries, distress signals…you name it,

I had it. I even had a generator, in case the power went out.

(I learned that from the hospital…’cause you don’t want to

be in the middle of a hip replacement when the room goes

dark.)

Since the storm sucked up most of the television channels,

I had to resort to alternative media over the weekend. In

the first place I checked, I found a story on our old wascally

friend, Albert Arnold Gore, or Fat Al, as I like to refer to him.

This story has Fat Al really ratcheting up the rhetoric on global

warming (the cause, obviously…of Hurricane Irene), and

telling some showstopping whoppers, as only a former divinity

student can.

Here is Fat Al, rambling on without any interuption from the

host.

"I remember, again going back to my early years in the South,

when the civil rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things

that really made an impression on me. My generation watched

Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and

we went "Whoa! How gross and evil is that?" My generation asked

old people, "Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate

against people because their skin color is different? And when they

couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, the change

really started."

Now that’s a nice sentiment, but it’s also another of Fat Al’s

gross exaggerations. (Such as…"I invented the internet"). In

the toughest years of the civil rights movement, 1961-1965,

Albert Arnold Gore was attending St. Alban’s Prep in Washington,

D.C. He was limo’d from Gore Sr.’s digs at the Fairfax Hotel.

While young Fat Al was involved in many high school activities,

there is nary a mention of him anywhere near a civil rights march.

In fact, at that time, Washington, D.C., was a city completely

divided along racial lines, and Al was as whitebread as they come.

Then, he was off to Harvard, where by his own admission he did

not participate in demonstrations of any kind. After that, he did

enlist in the Army and he did go to Vietnam. But Gore Sr. saw to it that

Al didn’t get close to combat.

He then enrolled at Vanderbilt, but quit to enter politics.

The rest, as they say, is history.

The reason I bring this up is because, in this same venue, Fat

Al compared climate skeptics to Wacists. In other words, if you

aren’t willing to believe what Fat Al says is the truth, you are a

Wacist, or should be treated the same way as those old Bull Connor

cronies, who opened the fire hoses on demonstrators.

Then Fat Al really gets down with the peeps. Here’s what he says:

"There came a time when friends, or people you work with, or people

you were in clubs with…you’re much younger than me, so you didn’t

have to go through this personally…but there came a time when wacist

comments would come up in the course of conversation and in years

past, they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would

say…Hey man, why do you talk that way? I mean, that is wrong. I don’t

go for that, so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.

That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation

was won."

That’s the way it really happened, I kid you not. Guys like Fat Al, in the

club, telling other club members they weren’t jiggy with dat, nosiree!

You know, I have a heap powerful supply of my Powerhouse Omega

Formula on hand, but I don’t think I have enough to repair the damage

done to this guy’s brain.

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When a leading climatologist at the University of Virginia was asked

about some of the items Fat Al put down as "fact" in his book, "Earth

in the Balance," he replied, "If they were facts, somebody would have

heard of them before, some other group would have put them to the test."

As more and more of Gore’s climate theories are put to the test, the more

skeptics there are. And the more skeptics there are, the less investors are

willing to put money in green technology, which is far, far, more expensive

than anything we use right now. In fact…there is not one profitable green

technology company anywhere in the world. Not one.

That Fat Al, he sure is one wascally wabbit.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

P.S. Did climate change cause Hurricane Irene? If you say no you

is a wascally wacist.

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Can You Build Muscle When You’re 64

Posted: August 28th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Why Use Garlic

Posted: August 27th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

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Dr. Bill is the nom de guerre of William Thomas Stillwell, M.D.,
FACS, FICS, FAAOS, FAANAOS, FAAPGS. He is a licensed, board
certified orthopaedic surgeon, with nearly a quarter century of
clinical experience, and has served as Chairman of the Department
of Orthopaedic Surgery at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center,
Smithtown, New York until he retired in 2003, Associate Professor
of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook (1987-2003), Assisitant Professor before that, and
Instructor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at the College of
Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (1982-1999).

He is also a member of the Arthroscopy Association of North
America, the Association for Hip & Knee Surgery, and numerous
professional and scientific societies, including his Fellowships in
The American College of Surgery, The International College of
Surgery, The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, The American
Academy for Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery, and the American
Academy for Postgraduate Surgery.

Dr. Bill was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a product of the New
York City educational system, with higher education through New
York Medical College, where he earned his Doctorate in Medicine in
1973. At this time, he also worked as a professional medical
illustrator and comic artist

His Internship and General Surgery Residency were at the Medical
College of Virginia in Richmond, Vurginia and his Residency in
Orthopaedics was at St. Luke?s Hospital, back in New York.
Subsequently, he completed his advanced training in Adult
Reconstruction as an Otto E. Aufranc Fellow in Constructive Surgery
at the prestigious New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, and
Tufts University, where he was a Visiting Fellow.

Thereafter, he began the private practice of orthopaedic surgery in
Commack and Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, in the summer of
1979. Five years later, he had a specialized practice in surgery of
the hip & knee and was appointed Chief of Orthopaedics. During this
period, he was also Director of the Fracture Clinic, at St.
Luke?s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in NYC. He introduced many
advanced techniques in joint reconstruction to the hospital,
including his pioneering work on standardized protocols, which
eventually became known as clinical pathways, decades ahead of the
rest of the field.

He has written (and often illustrated) a number of scientific and
academic articles, which have been published in peer reviewed
medical journals, and two major orthopaedic textbooks on advanced
joint reconstruction: The Art of Total Hip Arthroplasty (Grune &
Stratton, 1987), and Arthroplasty: An Atlas of Surgical Technique
(with coauthor W. Norman Scott, M.D., Aspen Publications, 1987). He
illustrated the latter two books, as well.

During his tenure as Chairman, Dr. Stillwell developed his
Department with one of the strongest rosters of surgical excellence
on Long Island and the region. His hospital became a widely
respected regional center of excellence for major joint replacement
and revision, arthroscopic surgery, and advanced spinal procedures.
He himself was publicly acknowledged as a regional expert in his
field, The Hip & Knee Specialist, with a regional, national and
international referral base. He was also invited, twice, to lecture
at the prestigious British Hip Course in Oswestry, Wales, in the
U.K., on advanced revision surgery techniques.

At the peak of his career, Dr. Bill sustained a fractured spine in
a fall, and after attempting to continue his work for over a year,
despite progressive pain, believing he was putting patients at
risk, he voluntarily resigned from his position and retired from
his practice. He now commutes seasonally between his main residence
in Central Florida and the ?Northern Command,? in Southampton, New
York. He lives with his wife of over 35 years and a whole lot of
cats.

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How To Make Chicken Chili

Posted: August 26th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

I saw my buddy, the chef, last week and he gave me this recipe

for Chicken Chili. Not only is it extremely good, but it fits right in

with food that is more than healthy for you. Enjoy!

Chicken Chili

3 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs

1 Tbsp veg oil

3 jalapeno chiles

3 poblano chiles

3 Anaheim chiles

2 onions

6 cloves of garlic, diced

1 Tbsp cumin

1/2 Tbsp ground coriander

2 14.5 oz cans of cannellini beans

3 cups of low sodium chicken broth

3 Tbsp fresh lime juice

1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro

4 scallions, thinly sliced

Season the chicken thighs with salt and pepper.

Heat oil in a large pan and cook the chicken thighs till brown,

then flip and cook the other side. Depending on the size of

your pan, you may need to do this in batches.

Place the chicken on a plate.

Remove and discard the ribs and the seeds from the jalapenos, then mince

(cut, very small).

In a food processor processor, process half the poblanos, the Anaheims

and the onions. You’re looking for a salsa consistency.

Transfer this to a bowl, and then process the other half.

Combine with the first half.

Pour off most of the fat from the pan, and reduce the heat to medium.

Add your minced jalapenos, the processed chili and onion, the garlic,

cumin, coriander, and 1/4 Tsp salt. Cook until the vegetables soften

(10 minutes), then, remove from the heat.

Transfer 1 cup of the softened vegetables back to the food processor.

Add a cup of the drained beans, and a cup of chicken broth.

Process, until smooth.

Add the processed mixture back to the pot, with the other vegetables.

Stir in the remaining drained beans.

Shred or chop your chicken in small pieces. Add back to the pot.

Simmer until mixture thickens.

Mince the last jalapeno, discarding the ribs and seeds. Add to the pot.

Stir in the cilantro, the scallions and the lime juice.

Simmer a minute or two, taste, and adjust your seasonings as needed.

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Big Hoss Loses 115 Pounds

Posted: August 25th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Last night, I watched an episode of the hit cable

show, "Pawn Stars." The series is built around

three family members and the friend of the youngest

family member. The younguns’ names are Corey,

(Big Hoss), and Chumlee. Both of them are seriously

overweight and the fact that they are young makes

it much worse.

A reader sent me a story about Big Hoss losing 115

pounds, along with photos. He looks one helluva lot

better with the weight off. According to the story, Big

Hoss had lap band surgery, and he’s working out five

days a week, with a personal trainer. He is also doing

Krav Maga, which is an Israeli self defense form.

The show "Pawn Stars" is a look inside the pawn

business, about which I know almost nothing. The interplay

between the grandpa, father and son is pretty honest

and straightforward and they often disagree with each

other about their transactions. Chumlee, Big Hoss’s

childhood friend, is the comic relief and the butt of many

insults hurled by the family members. Many people I

know watch the show, not for family members, but for

Chumlee. Last week, I saw someone wearing a Tshirt

that said, "Chumlee for President," and I thought, "Why

not?" (Certainly couldn’t do worse, could he?)

Big Hoss was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, which is

why he decided to lose weight. He had lap band surgery,

which restricts the size of your stomach. People who

have this procedure done can only take in a small amount

of food at a time. A number of famous people have had

this procedure done, like Al Roker, Carnie Wilson, and

Randy Jackson, from "American Idol."

It doesn’t always work. Carnie Wilson has managed to

gain weight back, in spite of the procedure. So have

many others, and some doctors put the procedure in

the "dangerous" category.

I would put it in the "last resort" category, because I

know that you can lose weight without surgery, and that’s

much safer. But Big Hoss is now a TV star and that

puts him a different category. It wouldn’t surprise me if

Chumlee followed his example and I sure hope he does

something, because carrying that load will break him

down like a General Motors product.

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My favorite Chumlee storyline is the one where Rick

sends him out to have Bob Dylan autograph an album,

so he can sell it at a premium price. Chumlee tracks

Dylan down, and Dylan asks him what his name is.

He says, "Chumlee." Dylan the writes, "To Chumlee,

Best Wishes, Bob Dylan."

Chumlee takes it back to Rick, who then notices the

autograph is addressed to Chumlee, which makes it

worthless to him, and he goes ballistic. Chumlee just

shakes his head, like "Huh?"

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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I Couldn’t Watch It

Posted: August 24th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

A three decades plus of practicing medicine, even

a doctor can be horrified by some situations. Yesterday,
while doing some late night channel surfing, I stumbled

upon "The World’s Fattest Man." I was so blown away

by what I saw in six or seven minutes that I forgot

which channel it was on.

Now, I have seen some fat people in my time. Up

until two years ago, I saw one every day, when I looked

in the mirror. (I knew I should have bought that "trick"

mirror when I had a chance.)

There were folks I couldn’t operate on, because they

too fat. (A knee replacement doesn’t do much good

if you weigh 400 pounds…you’ll just blow it out again.)

But this guy…OMG!

I had to tune out when they started examining FOLDS

of flesh. They even found some "things," in between

the folds, which I don’t even want to talk about. The

guy weighed more than half a ton. Half a ton! The

human body is just not designed for that kind of abuse.

Closer to home, I was in a store here, and there was

a rather rotund woman with a friend, who was somewhat

smaller than the former, but still hefty, in the aisle I wanted

to go down. The Big Un started complaining about her

ankles, saying, "I don’t know what it is, but my ankles

hurt like Hell."

Right then, the Devil appeared on my left shoulder,

saying, "What part of "fat" doesn’t she understand?

Tell her she’s a big fat slob and that’s why her ankles

hurt. Go on…tell her!"

I swatted the Devil away and reversed course, deciding

to approach from a diferent direction. I cut around, and

got to where I needed to go. The two women were still

in the aisle, but I could get what I wanted. I found it, and

was putting it in the cart, when the two started in my

direction. The Big Un was still yammering about her

ankles. The Smaller Un says, "Have you ever tried those

…compression socks?"

I turned my cart as fast as I could because I was going

to burst out laughing, and I didn’t want them to think I

was laughing at them. (Rule # 1 of the Jungle: Don’t do

anything to piss off a hippopotamus.)

Compression socks! OMG!

Let me make this as simple as possible.

When you are overweight…you put a lot of stress on

your body. Every part of your body gets taxed to the

max. Your heart works harder, your brain works harder,

your lungs, liver, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas, spleen,

intestines…they are all on overtime, because you are

are not treating them right.

So your body starts sending messages…like pain.

If I had a dollar for every fatso that told me their

feet, ankles, knees, and hips hurt…I’d be sunning

myself in Barbados, waiting for my valet to tell me

my yacht was ready to roll. I’d roll to my right, pick

up my captain’s hat, adjust my shades, and be off

to the nearest casino to play baccarat.

If you suffer from a plethora of pork, you are in

need of a bovine adjustment. You need to get

with my program, and start working on being Slim

Shady, as opposed to Portable Shady.

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Why You Shouldn’t Get Snookered Into Eating Garbage

Posted: August 23rd, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »