A Confounding Mess In this week’s issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (unfortunately you need a subscription to see the article) Dr. Andrew Gray MD, and Mark Bolland PhD write an interesting editorial called Vitamin D: A Place in the Sun. In it they discuss the current flood of claims for health benefits of vitamin ...
Category Archives: Fitness and Nutrition
Exercise and Your Brain
Most of us who exercise believe that exercise just makes us feel better, sleep better, look better and be better. In today's NY Times is a very nice article on exercise and brain regeneration and growth. Enjoy: July 7, 2010, 12:01 am Your Brain on Exercise originally from the NY Times By
Natural Therapy?
I am amazed sometimes at the things my patients do to (for?) themselves in the name of trying to find natural ways to be more healthy. Even more amazing to me is the incredibly unnatural things they do that they natural. We are in a society where doing unnatural things to be more natural is the natural thing ...
Exercise and weight loss. More tough news.
Exercise alone does not seem to be effective in preventing weight gain once a woman is already heavy. The latest JAMA issue reports on a huge study trying to see if different levels of exercise prevent weight gain in women. This study looks at the 34,000 women in the Women’s Health Study, a huge cohort ...
Obesity- Have both Doctors and Patients Just Quit Trying?
I know I'm worn down by the US obesity epidemic. Many patients clearly overeat, others are also too sedentary, and some just seem to be obese genetically. Regardless it seems that the only patients who really lose weight in my practice figure it out themselves. I wish I had an answer for everyone who ...
Good news for Coffee Drinkers
More good news for coffee drinkers. I can remember spending time explaining why my patient in the hospital after a heart attack could not have their morning coffee, because it might cause a life threatening arrythmia. It looks like I wasted my breath and deprived them needlessly. A recent study reported on MedPage ...
Brooke Douglas on Portion Control
Portion control is one of my problems. Most foods seem like Lay's potato chips to me, I can't have just one. Brooke has suggestions. PORTION CONTROL: Don’t Go Overboard! No one wants to gain 10# at the end of one year? But ...
Valentines Chocolate – Dark is best
Dark chocolate. How can you not love it. Treat your valentine with a relatively healthy treat, and feel good about it. All things in moderation of course. About.com has a good sumary of the research supporting the health benefits of moderate consumption of chocolate. This post is only half "tongue-in-cheek." Health Benefits of Chocolate By Mark Stibich, ...
ACL injury prevention in female athletes
Female athletes, especially basketball and soccer players have up to 6 times as many ACL tears as their male counterparts at similar competative levels. We are way past deciding if girls/women should be involved in sports like soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and other rigorous sports. What we need to recognize is that men’s bodies and women’s bodies ...
April Fool’s Day Myth-Information
This month our favorite nutrition expert sounds off on pervasive nutrition myths. Hear what Brooke has to say on DrPullen.com the first day of every month. April Fool’s Day Myth-Information - by Brooke Douglas RD From ‘loading up on grapefruit’ to ‘fasting in order to jump start your diet’, how do you separate fact from fiction? In ...
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