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January 01, 2009 11:12 AM EST (featured date: January 01, 2009) — I'm really hoping for a better year than last year was, not just for myself, but for everyone.  2008 was definitely not the best year. I always make some New Year's resolutions, I won't . . . more
December 29, 2008 03:53 PM EST (featured date: January 01, 2009) —   The years come and go and so, it seems, do New Year's Resolutions.   Do you make New Year's Resolutions with every intention of sticking to them and then eventually end up throwing . . . more
September 02, 2008 11:04 AM EDT (featured date: September 02, 2008) — In the next week or two, thousands of young people will leave home for their first year in college. Within a few months they will acquire knowledge, new friends, greater maturity, and...extra pounds. . . . more
August 26, 2008 10:40 AM EDT (featured date: August 26, 2008) — An interesting article from Reuters this week notes that the Olympics in Beijing have occasioned some self-reflection among the Chinese about their increasing rate of obesity. It seems, according to . . . more
August 18, 2008 02:41 PM EDT (featured date: August 18, 2008) — It used to be that one advantage of being pregnant was that you pretty much got a free pass to eat whatever you wanted — a little something to counterbalance stretch marks, heartburn, varicose veins, . . . more
August 11, 2008 10:59 AM EDT (featured date: August 11, 2008) — The tomatoes are barely ripe and yet the back to school ads are already flooding the airwaves and newspapers: In these ads bright-eyed imps turn cartwheels as they sport new shoes, jeans, and backpacks. . . . more
August 04, 2008 10:26 AM EDT (featured date: August 04, 2008) — Once upon a time, in the days when there were fewer drugs available to treat many conditions, doctors often advised patients to change their residence to improve their health. Asthmatics and allergy . . . more
July 28, 2008 05:42 PM EDT (featured date: July 28, 2008) — The lead article in last week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reported the results of a clinical trial in which the effectiveness and safety of three different weight loss diets were . . . more
July 21, 2008 03:04 PM EDT (featured date: July 21, 2008) — I commented recently to a colleague of mine that he was looking very trim and fit. "I'm on the Orange Bowl Diet," he confided. I'd never heard of this diet—and I thought I'd . . . more
July 14, 2008 11:19 AM EDT (featured date: July 14, 2008) — "The body speaks." Harvard University historian Anne Harrington thus summarizes one of the ways in which medical thinkers—most notably Sigmund Freud—have made sense of . . . more
July 07, 2008 03:46 PM EDT (featured date: July 07, 2008) — Hal é Sofia Schatz., author of If The Buddha Came to Dinner (a book that details a lifestyle and approach to eating based on whole, fresh foods) recently shared with me an interesting observation. . . . more
July 01, 2008 11:38 AM EDT (featured date: July 01, 2008) — I was struck, in the coverage of Tim Russert's recent death, at the focus on the journalist's heart — in both the literal and figurative senses of that word. There were many articles, . . . more
June 23, 2008 11:20 AM EDT (featured date: June 23, 2008) — Talk about your fashion police. A new law in Japan requires companies and local governments to measure the waistlines of citizens between the ages of 40 and 74 annually as part of a national campaign . . . more
June 16, 2008 11:36 AM EDT (featured date: June 16, 2008) — The first patient I ever saw in the hospital when I was a medical student was a steelworker who arrived in the emergency room in a diabetic coma. I spent the night by his bedside administering insulin . . . more
June 09, 2008 05:52 PM EDT (featured date: June 09, 2008) — The Centers for Disease Control has just reported the good news that the incidence of childhood obesity, which had risen sharply in the last three decades, may be starting to level off. Researchers aren't . . . more
June 02, 2008 11:53 AM EDT (featured date: June 02, 2008) — Remember that old joke: "the operation was a success, but the patient died"? There are many times when a doctor thinks things are going well but the patient has, shall we say, a different perspective. . . . more
May 27, 2008 10:34 AM EDT (featured date: May 27, 2008) — Remember that old beer commercial where drinkers argued about the best feature of their favorite "lite" brew? "Tastes great!" shouted one group. "Less filling!" retorted . . . more
May 19, 2008 02:11 PM EDT (featured date: May 19, 2008) — If you're an American over forty five or so, think back to the diet you grew up on. Most likely your mom (who was probably the family chef) prepared a limited repertoire of simple meals in which meat . . . more
May 12, 2008 11:27 AM EDT (featured date: May 12, 2008) — So you're on the treadmill or Stairmaster and—having exhausted the entertainment possibilities of listening to the same tunes over and over on your iPod, trying to read the newspaper while your . . . more
May 05, 2008 01:12 PM EDT (featured date: May 05, 2008) — For generations now, many anxious new parents have been calmed by the first sentence of Dr. Benjamin Spock's classic Baby and Child Care : "You know more than you think you do." Much of . . . more
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