My observant brother texted me this week asking what is the deal with multivitamins: Following a barrage of negative studies in the last few years suggesting that they may not provide any health benefit, and may even increase risk of…
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Another Reason to Get up and Move!
A new study in the American Journal of Kidney Disease has linked being a couch potato to increased risk of chronic kidney disease. Prolonged sitting also boosts your risk of developing high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other blood…
Why Diet Matters More than Exercise for Weight Loss
If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s important to eat less and move more, but it’s not a 50-50 equation—you’ll drop more pounds by paying closer attention to your diet than you will by increasing your exercise. That’s partly because…
Posted in active, cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression, diabetes, eating well, exercise, healthy choices, weight loss
Vitamin D and Your Immune System
Every now and then, I get to interview an expert who is so passionate about his or her work that the enthusiasm is infectious. That was certainly the case with John S. Adams, a professor at David Geffen School of…
Is Your Commute Killing You?
How’s that for a sensational headline? Perhaps more accurate is what Bill Briggs wrote in his MSNBC article on the topic: “…new science suggests your sluggish slog from home to work (and back again) is slowly sucking the life out…
Posted in cancer, commute, eating well, exercise, healthy choices, high blood pressure, obesity, sleep, stress, traffic
Save Your Skin!
May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, and a study published in Aprilindicates that between the 1970s and 2000s melanoma rates increased fourfold for men under 40 and a whopping eightfoldfor women under 40. The researchers attribute the increase…
Posted in appearance, cancer, dermatologist, look younger, melanoma, outdoors, sun exposure, tanning
Reading Past the Headlines
A while back I asked readers to submit ideas for questions you’d like to see answered on the blog. One reader responded with this, which I have heard variations on for as long as I’ve been writing about health: [What…
Want to Live Longer? Eat Less Red Meat.
A study published yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that eating too much red meat can shorten your lifespan. Now, red meat has had a bad reputation for a while (blame its saturated fat and cholesterol content, which…
Posted in blood pressure, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, eating well, insulin, nitrites, processed foods, red meat, sodium
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