I’m in Los Angeles visiting colleges, brother, and friends, with my youngest daughter. We looked at 3.25 colleges – hard to count USC as a full look as she summarily discounted its prospects upon departing …
Real Costs of Obesity
This chart, from the McKinsey Quarterly, a free, on-line business resource, demonstrates the real and devastating costs of obesity in america. as the article points out, these costs are rising world-wide: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2011_01.htm I have written …
Obesity, Kids, and School Lunches
Should the State dictate what you eat? nope. but if it’s paying for it, it has the right to lay out a menu that it believes is better for you than menus we know are …
The Doctor-Patient Wt Management Plan
It’s on everyone’s mind, whether you’re lean and fit or obese and diseased: why can’t I/they/he/she lose weight? Well, if you’re a doctor administering to a patient whose health can be dramatically altered by losing …
Type 2 Diabetes Drugs and Bone Breaks
There are many drugs for almost any disease, but none are risk free. Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is a disease prevalent in the aging populations of industrial/developed nations largely due to lifestyle patterns of excess …
Healthy-er Junk Food
Nanny state-ism is, like it or not. We share in each others’ pain, illness, and wellness if not by intent at least by infrastructure. From private to public health insurance plans, the means of operational …
Diet and Mental Health
as we move further into our new year’s resolutions, esp those centered around eating and exercising, here’s one to consider. this is the first to show a link between healthy EATING, not simply components of …