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Dear friends- just a brief note to let you that if you follow me here and have the impression I've lost my muse, it isn't so. I've done a steady volume of blogging at the Huffington Post-&n bsp...
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When would a guy with a fairly well established reputation for ranting against the gimmickry, failings, and false promises of weight loss programs not only get involved in one, but take pride in havin g...
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One of the higher profile medical stories of the past week was the news that work is increasingly workless- in the physical sense, that is. Physics defines work as force times distance, and we a pply...
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Over the years, I’ve had some patients tell me they only need to smell food to gain weight. Of course, I didn’t entirely believe them- and I’m sure they never expected me to!&n bsp...
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My father is a cardiologist. When I was little, he was first completing his training, then establishing himself in practice. Under both of those ‘low man on the totem pole&rsqu o...
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Knowledge is not power. Where there’s a will, there may or may not be a way. And fitness must be made to fit. Some truths are, indeed, self-evident- others require a bit of cul tivation...
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You likely know –from innumerable sources, my rants among them- that obesity is epidemic among children and adults alike, and counts among the most urgent of public health threats in the modern world...
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As someone with a large supply of frequent flyer miles, I wince along with many others at every story of a somnolent or inattentive air traffic controller. There, but for a timely nap, go I!&nbs p...
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Surprise, somewhat surprisingly, has emerged as a theme in my recent work. A little over a week ago, I was in the beautiful Alpine town of Gmunden, in Upper Austria, participating in a ‘su rprise...
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You may have seen a YouTube video in which Dr. Robert Lustig of UCSF opines that calories are irrelevant and that sugar is, in essence, the root of all dietary evil. If you are among the few who have...
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