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American workers overestimate their health status, according to the poll. The dark bars above are the total number of respondents; the red bars are those who feel encouraged by senior management….who eat healthier, have more energy, less stress, lower blood pressure and lower cholestereol. [...]
Healthy Heart Foods When I worked at the great Chicago restaurant Topolobampo, one of the other volunteers in the kitchen loaded up on Peptobismol and Lipitor (a statin now off patent) before our annual trip to a great culinary region in Mexico. “One for the gut and one for [...]
The debate about low T has dramatically accelerated in the 2 weeks since the NYTimes published “Don’t Ask Your Doctor About Low T.” The day after, the NY Times published an editorial of its own, calling on regulators “to strengthen warning labels and find ways to rein in [...]
1. Pharma companies will make a mint on cholesterol drugs, now that 25% of Americans are supposed to be on them, up from 12%. Au contraire, and trick question. Nearly all statins are generic, and generics are not where pharma has placed its future bets: only Crestor is not generic, [...]
In nutrition, there are three concerns to address: information, money/resources, and time. Information, though not easy, is usually the least difficult problem to solve. People want to know which foods lower cholesterol or blood sugar; which nutrients interact with their medications; whether olive [...]
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 [...]
Two views of why heart disease prevention does not work well: one, personal responsibility is not given the attention it deserves. And two, physicians are not trained or incentivized to advise patients to stop smoking, improve their diet and become fit…maybe because people don’t [...]
The first big JAMA study of the new year (Happy New Year!) implied that you can be overweight or barely obese, and not die early because of it. In between the lines: yes….in that population. Why? Because they get medical care right away!. Because they get sicker sooner! Because [...]
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