Tag Archives: prevention

A Food-Based Approach to Eating

Posted on September 12, 2010 by admin

The science of nutrition is changing and not in the way you might expect. After years of “reductionist” thinking — where food has been viewed as the sum of its parts – a call to treat food as food has … Continue reading →

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A Great Save?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by admin

In the real world of medicine, “great saves” are rare. Most patients that you expect to die will die, and those who experience a cardiac arrest or code rarely survive. Mr. GR is the closest I’ve seen to an exception to … Continue reading →

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Competing on Outcomes, The Way to True Health Care Reform

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

On my drive in to work this past week I came across this: a bus-side advertisement for a local hospital (sadly, not mine) claiming that it was “home to the city’s best transplant outcomes.” Normally I drive right by these … Continue reading →

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Salt- The Other “Pure, White and Deadly”

Posted on May 11, 2010 by admin

In an earlier post, I talked about the dangers of sugar (see here), which John Yudkin described in his book by the same name in 1974 as “pure, white and deadly.” In this post, I talk about a similar-looking and … Continue reading →

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Video Lecture

Posted on May 3, 2010 by admin

This past week I’ve been putting together a powerpoint presentation on preventive health care. The talk is a summary of much of the work I’ve done in prevention over the past three years, articulated in a way that makes it … Continue reading →

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