Dr. Pescatore's blog

So I am having a colonoscopy tomorrow and thought everyone should know about it.  I mean if Katie Couric can do it so can I.  I was writing in my Reality Health Checks https://www.logicalhealthalternatives.com/ about how many people do not get routine health screenings and for colonoscopies, the rate was under 50% of those who should get them. 

I just got back from a trip to Whole Foods and quite honestly, I was disgusted with the place.  It was immaculate with lots of eager help but they didn’t have asparagus! Really? It’s asparagus season! My farmstand in the Hamptons was riddled with asparagus – I couldn’t eat enough this weekend.  One would think that with all the farms surrounding this little island I live on; Whole Foods could have managed to find local fresh asparagus.

Ok, I have to admit that I watched that movie every year as a child.  I forget what time of the year it was always shown, but I just couldn’t get enough of the wicked witch flying on her broom – oh who am I kidding – it was always the ruby slippers. I wanted mine flat, like a driving loafer to be worn with a tuxedo but you get the idea.

So, I decided that I needed to get some new work-out gear for the city.  As you know, I recently installed a complete medical fitness facility in my office so my trainer, Shane, no longer comes to my home but we train at my office.

 While on paper, that idea seemed like a good one; but I must admit that I much preferred training from the comfort of my own home.  And to be frank, it is because of the clothes situation.  The one part of exercise I never liked was the dressing and the undressing and the re-dressing.  What a waste of time!

I am not talking about the first solo hit from Eddie Kendricks from The Temptations.  I am talking about the plethora of food trucks.  Are we that hungry that we can’t even go into a store to eat, but we have to eat at the curb?  Even Chick-fil-a is launching a food truck.  Can someone please explain to me the appeal of eating standing up with food dripping on your clothing or onto the sidewalk in front of others?

I had a really good idea for a blog this week but it is going to have to wait until next week.  I guess even the Long Island Medium didn’t see this one coming.  I was watching 60 Minutes when this past weekend and they did a giant expose on sugar – discussing all of its evils.

Before I get into the obvious reason why this week’s blog is so entitled, I have been wanting to discuss the fact that 1 in 6 Americans go to bed hungry.  That is a shocking statistic when 2/3 of all Americans are either overweight or obese.  That would mean that there is only 1 in 6 Americans who are of normal weight.  That is a sobering thought and makes me rather sad.

We all have our favorite part of being on vacation.

 Freedom is that moment of calm before the fear sets in.  No matter what you’ve freed yourself from you only get so far down the road before you are forced to make a choice and sentence yourself to the next adventure.

While many of you may immediately think of the upscale hotel chain as I often do; or just the usual spring, summer, winter and fall, I am thinking this morning of the four seasons that occur in Los Angeles: the Rainy season (which often doesn’t happen), Pilot season (when all the new television shows get shot), Sun, Sun and more Sun; and my personal favorite: Red Carpet Season.