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Another healthcare recommendation down the tubes
First it's heart catheterization as a treatment for heart disease is no better than medical management. Then agressive management of diabetes increases the risk of death. Now, the Achives of Internal Medicine tells us: "Despite important reductions in nonfatal MI, aspirin prophylaxis in...
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Keep your kids off the chart
The chart below shows the unheralded rise in pediatric obesity (not overweight, just obesity!) over the last 40 years. Outrageous, and downright scary. Kids today are flocking to multi-billion dollar pediatric centers for adult-onset diabetes, heart disease, joint replacement and bariatric...
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Integrative medicine 2.0
Integrative medicine is in the unique position to take advantage of all of the healthcare technology solutions being released at record pace. The portals, tracking programs, and social networking interaction are all very exciting and give users lifestyle-changing experiences never before possible....
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How I read a food label
I was thinking about food labels recently as I scanned yet another new food product at the grocery store. It's become something of a hobby. "Oh, second ingredient evaporated cane juice (AKA sugar) and then at the end 'natural' (my quotation marks) flavors." The verdict: processed food....
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Today’s thoughts on fruit and fructose
A lot of press is being given to the impact of fructose. Dr. Lustig's viral video on sugar should be required watching for all humans. Fructose is fruit sugar, so with all the data supporting fructose and insulin resistance, many are taking that message to mean stop eating fruit. Here are some...
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Starbucks = our society’s candy store
Interesting discussion at the coffee shop the other day. The barista was shocked I didn't put any sweetener in my latte. Said it's very rare for someone not to have sweetener. Starbucks is our generations candy store. Sure the coffee is pretty good and the atmosphere and branding is...
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Insulin sensitivity is key to long-term mental health
One of the major manifestations of obesity is poor sensitivity (or responsiveness) to the hormone insulin. It's this insulin sensitivity issue that drives the "brain fog" that I see so frequently in patients that come to see me. This recent study confirms this fact and should motivate people...
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New nutrition labels?
The Institute for Medicine proposes new labels on food. New labels "should highlight only four things: calories, saturated fat, trans fat and sodium, the report says". I think this is good step, but I would make some additional recommendations to food labelling: - eliminate the loophole that...
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Obama IDs the key to healthcare reform!
"When it comes to food, one of the things that we are doing is working with school districts. And the child nutrition legislation is going to be coming up. We provide an awful lot of school lunches out there and -- and reimburse local school districts for school-lunch programs. Let's figure...
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Enlightening young minds
I was invited to the Ft. Wayne Family Medicine Residency today to give the noon conference talk on Integrative Medicine. I love talking to medical students and residents as they generally seem so hungry for changing medicine. To me it's important to show them some light in what often seems...
