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admin wrote a new post, Terrorists Are Morons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
As I write this, I am in Boston, which is pretty much in lock-down. I should be speaking right now at a session of Experimental Biology, but the Boston
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admin wrote a new post, Opinion Stew 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
When it comes to nutrition, not only does everyone have an opinion, but everyone seems to think theirs is an expert opinion. And our culture seems to be ok with
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admin wrote a new post, Medicine, Money, and Myopia 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
A recent study in JAMA, featured in a NY Times opinion piece of April 4, shows that complication rates for bariatric surgery since 2006 do not differ between
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admin wrote a new post, Processed Food, Processed People? 1 month, 1 week ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
In an age of advergaming, more than food is being processed. We are being processed, by food industry marketing distortions. Our kids are being
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admin wrote a new post, My Colonoscopy 1 month, 1 week ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
As I write this, I am just back from my colonoscopy. All went well, but I am still shrugging off the lingering tendrils of my sedation. So let’s chalk up any
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admin wrote a new post, Wealth, Health, and Wisdom 1 month, 1 week ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
As I write this, I am flying back to the U.S. from Qatar – the richest country in the world. As such, it provides a vivid demonstration that money can’t buy you
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admin wrote a new post, The Truth about Food, for Those Who Can Handle (and Swallow) It 2 months ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
In that riveting courtroom scene we all know from the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s character famously tells us: we can’t handle the truth. That often
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admin wrote a new post, Addictive by Design 2 months ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
I almost joined Michael Moss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist whose work on addictive junk food recently graced the cover of the paper’s
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admin wrote a new post, Science, Sense, and Sandbags 2 months ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
We might, I suppose, hold all victims of Hurricane Sandy, or our recent blizzard here in New England, or Hurricane Katrina personally responsible for the various
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admin wrote a new post, Prevention, Dollars, and Sense 3 months ago
Preventive Medicine Column
Dr. David L. Katz
Since an iron lung costs quite a few dollars, the prevention of polio cannot make sense. Right? If that one has you scratching your head, with a ‘say what?’
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admin wrote a new post, The Right Dose of Worry 3 months ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
Brominated vegetable oil is the ingredient a teenage girl noticed in her Gatorade. Her investigation revealed potential health risks associated with BVO, and she
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admin wrote a new post, Bearing with Coke 3 months ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
Predictably, the collective response of my friends and colleagues in public health to a new television ad about obesity by the Coca-Cola Company has been less
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admin wrote a new post, Guns and Numbers 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
There are, of course, some valid concerns and challenges raised by those who oppose gun control. I don’t mind admitting that. For one thing, nothing worthwhile-
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admin wrote a new post, Perils of Ping-Pong Science 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Dr. David L. Katz
According to a recent NY Times Op-Ed by Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, our “fear” of fat- namely epidemic obesity- is, in a word,
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