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U.T.I. 101

By: CLIFFORD SONNIE, M.D., M.P.H.

Did you know that the most common cause of bacterial infections in the U.S. today is urinary tract infections (UTI)? In fact, about 1/3 of all women will have at least one UTI before their 24th birthday and once a woman contracts a UTI the chance of getting it again is 1 in 5. The frequency...

Vitamin D: The Forgotten Vitamin

Vitamin D is like the kid in the movie “Home Alone”. Everyone knows it’s there and is a part of good health but no one knows exactly where it is or what it is doing. It’s only been in the past 5 or 6 years that vitamin D’s real value and requirements have been studied.

First of all, what does Vitamin D do? It’s pretty simple...

To Vitamin or Not to Vitamin, That is the Question

By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D. M.P.H.

Why should I take vitamins? It’s nothing more than another pill and all it will do is to give you expensive urine. I have heard this said by countless numbers of physicians and in fact, if you had asked me twenty years ago, I probably would have said the same thing....

What is all the fuss about cholesterol?

By Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.

Every so often the news gets a hold of this and the advertisers plaster the TV about cholesterol. Seems to me that no one really knows what cholesterol is all about. After all the “normal” level has moved up and down so much since I was in medical school that it looks like a yo-yo....

Why Water Should Be Your Friend

By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D.

I know I have spoken about the importance of water among several of my previous articles, and in this article I want to talk exclusively about it. I have told many of my patients that if God came down and told me that were only two or three things I could do for them, one of them would be...

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

By: CLIFFORD SONNIE, M.D., M.P.H.

I got a phone call over the holidays from the friend of a friend who wanted to talk about diabetes. I took quite some time explaining simple things to do to help blood sugar but couldn’t overemphasize the need to be thoroughly tested by your family medical physician. After I hung up...

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