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Category: Nutrition
It’s Greek to me: The great yogurt scam
Today I’m taking on yogurt. Yes, even the “Greek” varieties. Because I can’t believe that to this day, people still think yogurt is a health food. But I guess that’s marketing for you. So I was [...]
Bid adieu to McDonald’s French fries
McDonald’s cheery slogan is “I’m lovin’ it.” But anyone who eats there regularly had better also love diabetes and heart disease…because the entire menu is a one-way ticket to both chronic [...]
Obesity kills: These new numbers prove it
I’ve said before that obesity kills. But a new study offers some hard numbers to prove that point. Researchers examined data on 4,000 people from the National Health and Nutrition Examination [...]
Protest obesity
“Public needs to disapprove as much of obesity as it did of tobacco.” When I read that headline I almost leapt for joy. Especially because I wasn’t the one who had written it. I mean, I know I [...]
Eating out: Making us fat—and poor
There’s no denying the U.S. is an overweight nation. And the problem doesn’t solely lie in our cookie jars at home. Every day of the week in our supersize nation, people pile into their giant, [...]
Another major Mediterranean diet win all men need to know about
You know I’m a firm believer that there’s no such thing as “just getting old.” The symptoms many people—doctors included—associate with aging actually have other underlying causes. Ones that can [...]
Go walnuts
You can’t be a proponent of the Mediterranean style of eating without making a special spot for nuts in your daily diet. They’re packed with monounsaturated fatty acids which, as I just [...]
No bones about it: Pediatric health “experts” have their calcium recommendations all wrong
I hear the same question over and over again from so many of my patients: “Why doesn’t my other doctor know that?” It’s because their other doctors are listening to the misguided committees and [...]
Yet another reason to sit back with a nice hot cup of cocoa
You’ve got to hand it to Mother Nature. She’s provided us with everything we need to stay healthy as we age. In fact, if you follow her lead, getting older never has to mean feeling (or looking) [...]