Here’s a startling fact: When it comes to weight, much of a child’s fate is set by age 5. And nearly half of kids who are already overweight when they start kindergarten will be obese by [...]
Category: Nutrition
Obesity by osmosis? Read it and eat
I was born and raised in New York, went to medical school here and have my practice in the city. And, naturally, I read the New York Times every day. So when I read an article in a medical [...]
Purple tea—the hot new brew that can fight obesity and dementia
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Watercress—even better for you than kale
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The government makes a trans-fat declaration … 40 years too late
On Monday, I talked about how the FDA declared … quite a bit too late … that a whole class of common painkillers are so potentially dangerous that they need to have heart disease and stroke [...]
Always-good news: Yet ANOTHER benefit to eating chocolate
Here’s something that’s always good news to my patients–more evidence that chocolate’s good for you. Namely: a new study suggests that eating chocolate regularly may decrease the risk of [...]
A bogus food “warning” you don’t need to be worried about
I love my city but, boy, can the powers-that-be in the Big Apple be clueless sometimes. Our mayor’s latest proposal to the NYC Board of Health is aimed at reducing…salt. The proposed plan would [...]
Step away from the pizza
As an Italian, I know I shouldn’t be saying this. But I’m going to say it anyway because I care too much about your health… A new study shows that pizza may in fact be just as bad for obesity as [...]
This hidden food additive’s destroying your kidneys
It’s time to focus on phosphates once again. They’re the preservatives and stabilizers that food manufacturers routinely put in processed and packaged foods. I’m not talking about phosphorus, by [...]
Researchers discover a new diabetes-fighting healthy fat—and it comes from some surprising sources
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