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Thrilling to see this Yahoo coverage of one of the country’s emerging voices for culinary medicine, which blends the art of cooking with the science of medicine to create high quality meals which help prevent and treat disease. Medical schools are just starting to realize that they’re [...]
Happy to announce my new CulinaryRx Series I’m hosting with MedPage Today. We answer “What eating plan would you recommend for this patient, and why? Which foods and beverages should she avoid, and choose?” Check out the text Q+A, video, transcription, youtube link, reader [...]
Wise and healthy aging should not be left to the young: it should be practiced, so your RealAge can be younger as you age. New research from Stanford and Harvard’s Schools of Business show that work stress (typically out-of-control hours, out-of-balance work-life ratio, and job insecurity) [...]
I gave a talk at UCSB’s Food Summit recently UCSB coverage here, which is part of the important University of California Global Food Initiative. You can look at a condensed slideshare of the talk here, or check it out below. My idea: food can save the life of medicine, [...]
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 [...]
It’s easy to become cynical in the medical world: too many physicians feel forced to comply with standard metrics that don’t fit the patient in front of them. Many physicians are penalized if they refer to a physician outside their network, even if the physician colleague is more [...]
Clinical research in culinary medicine: by my count there are thousands of peer-reviewed articles, though a search of PubMed doesn’t yet find the keyword phrase. Up until late 2007 I catalogued them for 40 different conditions and 50 foods in ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine; [...]
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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 [...]
We’re barely half way in and already it’s apparent: if men have had undue attention to what it means to be a man focused on them in any year in this century, it’s this one. Why? It could be the eruption of the Low T controversy: it might be [...]