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Michelle Obama’s water advocacy based on “murky” science, say experts
First Lady Michelle Obama has rolled out a new campaign to make Americans drink more water. “Water is the first and best energy drink,” she told a crowd at a high school at the aptly named Watertown, Wisconsin….read more
Categories:General Nutrition Obesity
Does this plug-in make me look fat? And does it matter anyway?
“I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.” Rodney Dangerfield A lot has been made of the BMI, or Body Mass Index, the supposed arbiter of whether we are fat or…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight Obesity
Diversify your exercise portfolio
There’s a scene in the 1999 Academy Award-winning movie American Beauty in which an out-of-shape Kevin Spacey, newly lovestruck, encounters a pair of fitness buff neighbors jogging in front of his house. The dialogue goes something like this:…read more
Categories:Exercise Heart Health Obesity Sleep
It’s been a bad month for carbs
August marked the debut of Grain Brain, an outstanding book by my good colleague Dr. David Perlmutter. In Grain Brain, Dr. Perlmutter offers evidence of the deleterious effects of excess sugar and refined carbohydrates on the brain, focusing…read more
Categories:Diabetes General Nutrition Obesity
Former President G.W. Bush gets stampeded into undergoing a stent operation
Wasn’t it just a couple of months ago that George Bush, fit and buff at 66, led a group of Wounded Warriors one hundred kilometers across the deserts of West Texas for the Bush Institute’s annual spring mountain…read more
Categories:Supplements
Bush’s unnecessary stent—but wait, folks, there’s more!
Many of you have commented favorably on my recent newsletter article “Former President G.W. Bush Gets Stampeded Into Undergoing a Stent Operation.” http://www.drhoffman.com/page.cfm/1216. Mostly, amid the torpor of late August, people are too busy squeezing out the last…read more
Categories:Heart Disease
Does science equal truth?
“When she’s dancing next to me” “Blinding me with science – science!” “Science!” “I can hear machinery” “Blinding me with science – science!” “Science!” –“She Blinded Me With Science,” words and music by Thomas Dolby, 1982 Sometimes I…read more
Categories:Supplements
Something fishy this way comes . . .
Yet another viral news story has recently spooked many of my listeners and patients. This time it’s about an alleged association between fish oil and prostate cancer. It spread like wildfire this week after being headlined on the…read more
Categories:Cancer General Nutrition Supplements
Our Sisyphean battle against obesity
In Greek mythology, the character Sisyphus was a king of Corinth, condemned for his deceitfulness to arduously roll a gigantic boulder uphill, only to see it roll downhill, and to repeat the action into eternity. Sisyphus has come…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight
Pro-vegan website outs apostate meat-eaters
Apostasy (Wikipedia): “The formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person” In the Middle Ages, apostates were harshly punished. Some were tortured and burned at the stake. More recently “defectors” from repressive regimes…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight Nutrition Controversies
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
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Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
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I’m a veteran of the Diet Wars. Back in the 80s, when the ultra-low-carb Atkins…
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Q: I’ve read that twenty minutes of sun exposure will give us 10,000 to 20,000 IV…
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I couldn’t resist. Rather than leave these candidates for “Breakthrough treatments that we don’t really need” on…
Leyla Weighs In: Decoding High Ferritin–Understanding Iron’s Role in Your Health
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