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 [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Monsanto: not nearly as “warm and fuzzy” as its commercials
Don’t you just love the new Monsanto commercials? How they make the world such a better a place for us to live? If you haven’t seen these travesties yet, I encourage you to go to YouTube and [...]
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, [...]
Dusting off an old classic
After meeting with a flurry of controversy awhile back, it seems vitamin E is finally getting the credit it deserves from the scientific community. Recent research has suggested that vitamin E [...]
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 [...]
Recognizing your risk could save your life
You know I’m constantly stressing the fact that, given the state of diet and nutrition in the U.S., we’re all “patients-in-waiting” for a variety of diseases. And, one of my biggest goals in the [...]
Pharmaceutical painkillers: Bad for plants = bad for you
If you’re not convinced that pharmaceutical painkillers are bad for you, just check out what they do to plants. Yes, these drugs are so overused they’ve made their way into our environment. How? [...]
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 [...]