14 archives found for "lifestyle"

Your body speaks a language—but one that needs a little translation! So be sure you’re listening when your body talks… There is an extraordinary two-way communication going on between your body and mind that affects both your physical and emotional health. Instead of words, our body [...]

“Corporations cook very differently than people do.” So said Michael Pollan, the author and activist, in “How Cooking Can Change Your Life,” a phenomenal talk given in London in 2013. If you’ve read any of his work (e.g., the fantastic Omnivore’s Dilemma: A [...]

The Fab Four: Must Have Items for Every Kitchen: A well-outfitted kitchen is an asset to every home cook. The good news is that “well-outfitted” doesn’t have to mean wallet-emptying—with the four tools mentioned here you can make a lifetime of meals—and more than a few [...]

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 [...]

I am lucky: I was able to change my general internal medicine practice from near its very beginning, when I realized that I was not cut out to see 20 patients per day and keep up with documentation, on-call schedules and quota demands from payers and administration all at [...]

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. [...]

Amid the hub-bub of the week, with the Supreme Court affirmed Affordable Care Act health care law upheld, and with one JAMA study showing that 21 people on 3 different diets for 4 weeks each burn calories differently (no real surprise here: the lowest carb diet had the highest energy burn, [...]

Probably, in higher doses. A study of 18000 people without heart disease, called JUPITER, shows that Crestor (rosuvastatin) 20 mg showed that for every 1000 patients on high dose (40mg and up) statins, there are 6 more cases of new diabetes over 2 years. Crestor also prevented 11 cases [...]

Americans treated for diabetes doubled to about 19 million (8.5% of the population) in 2007 compared with 9.1 million (4.6% of the population) in 1996, according to the AHRQ, a federal agency. That doesn’t count the undiagnosed (7 million) and those with prediabetes (79 million). Health care [...]