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Feb 15, 2016

By Irv Rubenstein

Eggs – or at Least One Egg – Won’t Kill You

It came out last year or so that eating cholesterol-rich foods ain’t as bad as they once thought. Now this says an egg a day won’t kill you…but the bacon, well, they just don’t know yet: http://www.healthcanal.com/blood-heart-circulation/heart-disease/70334-high-cholesterol-diet-eating-eggs-do-not-increase-risk-of-heart-attack-not-even-in-persons-genetically-predisposed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+healthnewshc%2FOxfp+%28Health+News+from+HealthCanal.com%29 

Oct 31, 2015

By Irv Rubenstein

Part 3: The Science of Weight Loss Just Got Messier

Can a food manufacturer or grower be faithful to science if it funds the researcher? And vice versa.   In Part 3 of a three-part series, I address this latest bit of unsettling news reported in theNew York Times. In my first two posts – Part 1: The Weight Loss Agenda Just Got Messier and Part 2:Read More

Jun 22

By Irv Rubenstein

Why diets don’t actually work…but how to make them work better – Part 2

A couple weeks ago, I posted Part 1 of this discussion on weight management – Why Diets Don’t Actually Work. Here’s the rest of the story – how to manage weight with two, or a couple more, simple rules…. In the second part of the interview, a few days later, Dr Mann reveals two ‘secrets’Read More

Jul 09

By Irv Rubenstein

Thoughts on Los Angeles Sun

I’m in Los Angeles visiting colleges, brother, and friends, with my youngest daughter. We looked at 3.25 colleges – hard to count USC as a full look as she summarily discounted its prospects upon departing the parking garage. Otherwise, the three small colleges got a good look-see and the pleasant sunny weather here is clearlyRead More

Feb 08, 2011

By Irv Rubenstein

Real Costs of Obesity

This chart, from the McKinsey Quarterly, a free, on-line business resource, demonstrates the real and devastating costs of obesity in america. as the article points out, these costs are rising world-wide: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2011_01.htm I have written much on obesity, some to the dismay of my colleagues with the EDCT. nonetheless, since each person’s weight issue isRead More

Feb 04, 2011

By Irv Rubenstein

Obesity, Kids, and School Lunches

Should the State dictate what you eat? nope. but if it’s paying for it, it has the right to lay out a menu that it believes is better for you than menus we know are unhealthy and promote obesity. hence, when I read this in the Times: Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches – I feltRead More

Oct 25, 2010

By Irv Rubenstein

The Doctor-Patient Wt Management Plan

It’s on everyone’s mind, whether you’re lean and fit or obese and diseased: why can’t I/they/he/she lose weight? Well, if you’re a doctor administering to a patient whose health can be dramatically altered by losing weight, you have several options: talk nice, give orders, don’t say anything, or present the data. This article in theRead More

Aug 17, 2010

By Irv Rubenstein

Type 2 Diabetes Drugs and Bone Breaks

There are many drugs for almost any disease, but none are risk free. Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is a disease prevalent in the aging populations of industrial/developed nations largely due to lifestyle patterns of excess food intake and sedentary behaviors. Some of the common drugs used to manage this disease have been shown to increaseRead More

Jun 24

By Irv Rubenstein

Healthy-er Junk Food

Nanny state-ism is, like it or not. We share in each others’ pain, illness, and wellness if not by intent at least by infrastructure. From private to public health insurance plans, the means of operational success comes from sharing the burden of illness with those who are healthy. In fact, we’ve seen much from theRead More