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Everything about food, to someone who loves art, music, nature or sculpture, can be sensual. Food is truly seductive in its textures, colors, aromas, sounds and of course flavors. And there is a whole section of food photography called food pornog*raphy, which (almost needless to say) features [...]
This is Men’s Health Week, not just another Hallmark holiday, and it culminates in Father’s Day. Over the last several years as I tested and wrote REFUEL, I’ve discovered that there is a huge gender gap in health and health understanding, and that there is something to do about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Physicians are a sharp lot: that’s often how they qualified for medical school. We take care of ourselves, however, badly. Too many docs are stressed out, overweight, don’t exercise, and sleep little. It’s no coincidence that these are the three areas in which REFUEL offers its [...]
You can’t change what you can’t measure. Lots of buzz this year about wearables at #sxsw and Albert Sun of the New York Times concluded that of the dozen tracking devices he wore (4 at a time, sometimes) over 6 months, his choice was…himself. Once he knew his body’s [...]
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 [...]
My colleague Michael Roizen, MD, told me on his terrific YOU the Owner’s Manual Radio Show this weekend that the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Schools of Medicine are collaborating on a new building that will house a culinary medicine program and teaching kitchen. Isn’t that great? [...]
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