Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Memorial Day reminds us to honor those who gave all, so that all of us might know freedom.  Three-day weekends inevitably turn to the festive, but this really is

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

I spoke last week at a symposium on nutrition and public health at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.   Among others on the panel with me was

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

I am recently back from my most recent visit to Mindstream Academy, a boarding school that preferentially addresses the needs of middle and high-school students

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

I recently saw a patient who- like many others before her- had decided it was time to get serious about her health.  She wanted my help with better nutrition,

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Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Coincidentally, just as the eyes of the world are directed toward South Africa for World Cup soccer, one of the more provocative of recent medical stories has

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

There has long been recognition in the U.S. that clinicians tend to under-treat serious, and especially chronic pain.  This problem tends to become most

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

I am generally known, and reasonably so, for my interest in obesity prevention and control.  But that is something of a distortion.  My real interest is

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Having diabetes is not normal.  Neither is having atherosclerosis, hepatitis, Parkinson’s disease, or malaria.  Bringing the full force of modern medical

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Last week, I addressed the reason why weight loss drugs have historically fared quite badly, and in my view are likely to do so for the foreseeable future. 

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Apparently, around about the time we lost the ability to see the forest for the trees (which we are incessantly cutting down, by the way), we also

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

Last week, the Senate passed the “Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act,” a re-authorization of child nutrition legislation governing school food and related

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

The practice of medicine- and it is, indeed, “practice,” as in the perennial pursuit of perfection that will never be achieved- is most humbling.  We

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Dr. David L. Katz

Which came first in what may prove to be the nation’s largest ever salmonella outbreak, the chicken, or the tainted egg?

Neither, in my opinion. 

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Dr. David L. Katz

I recently had jury duty.  Perhaps that’s why, in response to an announcement by the FDA that provisions in the health care overhaul call for

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Dr. David L. Katz

Some months ago, a reader – 36-year-old wife and mother of two young children- asked me to address the health effects of soy, and I promised I

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Dr. David L. Katz

‘Tis the season (at least here in New England) for apple picking, county fairs, pumpkins, and a seasonal brew of recommendations, fulminations,

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

You might expect that a new study out of Sweden, in roughly a million women, suggesting a 26% mortality reduction with routine mammography in women in their

Preventive Medicine Column

Dr. David L. Katz

For boldly suggesting food assistance money in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly food stamps) exclude soda, NYC’s Mayor, Michael