32 archives found for "santa barbara"

Views of nature have been shown to lower stress levels in children, and kids love new tech. So do their parents. Can virtual reality of nature scenes provide pain relief? Our pilot program addresses the growing deficit of nature exposure with greater urbanization, and a greater awareness of the [...]

Medscape recently published a short essay of mine, Rx: Exercise Daily — in Nature. Doctor’s Orders. It is also viewable and downloadable here without login, as some people are not signed into Medscape but still want to read it. It is a quick summary of scientific evidence for how [...]

Culinary medicine for low vision is a real possibility: for the Braille Institute I’m doing a (very) short demo and lecture shortly, and here is some of what I learned in preparing.  Acute macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the few conditions in which dietary supplements have been shown [...]

The Foodbank of Santa Barbara work I’ve been privileged to participate in has taught me a lot: especially that food insecurity is actually an undiagnosed but treatable medical problem. Why haven’t I recognized it as such until recently? Maybe because so much of what clinicians see has [...]

Good diet foods for high blood pressure include blueberries, flax meal, hibiscus or jamaica tea, and beet juice. But high blood pressure management starts with measuring it accurately: I recommend the Omron Series 7 for home. These foods all have very good peer-reviewed medical research that shows [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Here is #5 of 6 how-to stories to describe how successful men do it (often with women to help): how those who REFUEL  get their mojo back, when their body mass index (BMI) or waist size or both have hidden it. And they’re worried about Low T. Jim has an actively involved [...]