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When Johns Hopkins Medicine happily and positively publishes “Take Two Carrots and Call Me in the Morning” and Hopkins Public Health researchers pen a NPR-covered pilot study of better-for-you hospital food—within 2 months of one another–you know something is changing in [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #7 of 7.* Carol has diabetes. She is 48 years old, the mother of two and a successful Washington litigator. She does not know [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #4 of 7.* Terri is a 38 year old who traces her tummy problems back to high school. She has had off and on [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #3 of 7.* Mary C. is a 29 year-old Houston mediator with migraines. A poster child for tyramine-rich olives, nuts and pepperoni, she also [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #2 of 7.* Susan was just 50 when her younger brother Bill died of a stroke. Always significantly overweight, she nevertheless was healthy. She [...]
When Food as Medicine Grand Rounds appeared 3 years ago, it was a toddler, pulsing with Inspiration and Experimentation. Now, it’s skipped adolescence and it’s going to Washington! But as Jake Sully notes: “…all energy is borrowed; at some point you have to return it.” [...]
A Penn State/NIH vitamin D research trial on rheumatoid arthritis is testing whether taking 1000IU of vitamin D3 reduces symptoms. A Chicago woman with 8 years of chronic pain turned out to be deficient, and then much better. 57% of people admitted to a Boston hospital…deficient. I would try [...]
