What Your Doctor Really Thinks
I was told in school to put a patient in a gown when he isn't listening or cooperating. It casts him in a position of subservience. --Chiropractor, At...
Obesity Epidemic
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Can City Farmers Stand in for Supermarkets?
Tracie McMillan | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living
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While urban farmers often share the ethos championed by Michael Pollan, they're getting their hands dirty for a more pragmatic reason: They can't find quality, fresh food close to home.
Why This Reality Show Might Save America
Jordan Safirstein, MD | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment
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Go ahead and mock that Flavor Flav show and the inane lives of teenage rich kids as seen on MTV's The Hills. But don't you dare include any of those shows in the same breath as The Biggest Loser, possibly the most important show to hit primetime in the past 50 years.
How Sitting Next To A Fat Person Can Make You Fat
The Weighting Game | Leslie Goldman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
"I've been on buses that filled to an inhumane capacity, with commuters packed in like desperate refugees or sows to the slaughter. Still, the seat be...
Obesity Surgery Seen As Diabetes Cure
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 01.23.2008 | Living
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CHICAGO — A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of th...
Supermarkets won't solve obesity, but bodegas might
Tracie McMillan | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living
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The lack of healthy food in our nation's poorest communities is finally making it into public discussion, but there's a tricky hurdle we've yet to get...
Transcending Trans Fats
Deirdre Barrett | Posted 10.08.2007 | Living
The U.S., which once led the world in rates of smoking and lung-cancer deaths, now leads the world in anti-tobacco legislation and declines in lung cancer. We can do the same with the obesity epidemic.
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