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In Part 1, I covered what the liver does and how it works, and why you should love your liver; here, in part 2, I cover liver healthy foods; good diet foods are discussed elsewhere. What can you do to avoid liver disease? If your waist is more than [...]
My Medscape essay on Prescribing Red Wine in Palliative Care, which I’ve reproduced for you below, has attracted good stories and comments, and it is something I have thought a lot about, while also trying to decide whether to get labs on my 18 month old barrels of pinot [...]
I’m excited about giving a talk on culinary medicine in Boston at a Harvard GI conference next week, and I thought I would share some of the tools I’m going to encourage docs to prescribe for their patients…that you can access now! Culinary medicine is all about blending the [...]
One of my patients, an Indian man with prostate cancer recently told me “I’ve stopped eating ice cream because of the sugar, because sugar feeds cancer.” There’s a lot to say about this: that cancers are food-specific (what works for one in prevention or treatment may not [...]
Reliable nutrition tools, new or old, are hard to come by. This is one of my primary fields, and *I’m* getting confused: one day whole grains are good for you, the next day they are bad, gluten is the cause of all evil or is it GMOs? And now [...]
Here are a few of the sensational headlines generated from the new, deeply flawed Cell study showing, on the basis of one 24 hour dietary recall 18 years ago that for people between ages 50 and 65, protein intake over 20 percent of calories increases risk of death, especially [...]
Articles on Nutrition I believe there is a national movement to help you get stronger, leaner and healthier with what you eat. Knowing what’s in your food, and how it can help you get well or make you sick are the most important steps you can take to transform [...]
Atkins was all the rage in the late 1970s; Ornish in the late 1980s; Atkins again in the late 1990s; and now there is free-for-all, with Paleo, Raw, Vegan and Gluten Free all vying for media time, most-favored-diet-status and celebrity spokespersons. Diets come and go in waves. I love analyzing [...]
I recently agreed to be a mentor for Blueprint Health, a NYC residential program that helps very early stage health technology companies get started. With everything I have going on, why this new role? One, I get to hang out with the other healthcare mentors. And two, I get [...]
Return-to-work (RTW) coordination programs are successful in reducing long-term work disability. But they vary a lot from one employer to the next. What doesn’t vary is why employers undertake them: to save money and boost productivity. And they do save money: 94% of savings coming from [...]