Februari 2012

Palatability, Satiety and Calorie Intake

WHS reader Paul Hagerty recently sent me a very interesting paper titled "A Satiety Index of Common Foods", by Dr. SHA Holt and co...

Last Thursday, I received a message from a gentleman named Dorsol Plants about a public health campaign here in King County called Soda Free...

WHEP ELECTIVE: Women’s Health in the Community For my Women’s Health in the Community elective, I reached out to the organization Women Orga...

A number of our terrific seniors are engaged in teen health activities this month, Sonia on teen attitudes on sources of sexual health infor...

One size does not fit all. Even when we evaluate trends within a given group, we need to deduce what are the individual traits of the person...

It is pretty easy to feel comfortable with what we know. It is equally comfortable (especially in an insatiably curious person) to be comfor...

Buckle your seat belts, ladies and gentlemen-- we're going on a long ride through the scientific literature on sugar and body fatness. ...

In Medicine, we are taught to assess risk. To identify factors that make a condition more or less likely. It is akin to a detective novel. U...

The US diet has changed dramatically in the last 200 years. Many of these changes stem from a single factor: the industrialization and comm...

Obesity rates in the US have more than doubled in the last 30 years, and rates of childhood obesity and extreme adult obesity have tripled. ...

On October 21st, I spoke at the Harvard Food Law Society 's TEDx conference, Forum on Food Policy . The conference kicked off with thre...

As I was preparing my recent article on the Paleo diet ( 1 ), I interviewed a local Paleo-friendly MD named C. Vicky Beer. I was only able ...