For new moms, there’s pressure to breastfeed. But it may not always be the best solution.
It happens to me a few times a year. I’ll find myself groaning at the thought of the 30-minute process that awaits me when I get home from work – one that starts with chopping vegetables and ends with…
I recently had a patient come to me at her wit’s end with weight loss. A woman in her 40s and postpartum, she was frustrated that she couldn’t get back to her pre-pregnancy weight. She…
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced New Yorkers into quarantine, a young man named Joseph Boo began to wonder what he could do to help save his dad’s business. A Bay Ridge, Brooklyn native, Boo is…
Back in April, when New York City was still one of the hotspots of COVID-19 cases, I was in a small pharmacy in my Brooklyn neighborhood. My attention was drawn to the supplement aisle, where…
In my opinion, hummus is the perfect dip. It’s nutritious, filling, and compatible with most dip-able foods. (Guacamole comes close, but dipping carrots in guac just doesn’t feel right.) With garbanzo beans as its primary ingredient, hummus…
Pizza is one of those foods that often gets tossed in the “junk food” category. For a significant amount of time in my life, I, myself, shied away from the food unless an occasion was…
I am, and always have been, a ‘shroom lover. As a kid, mushrooms were my favorite pizza topping, though I obviously didn’t understand or appreciate the complexity of the ingredient as I do now. I…
