In many previous posts (see here and here) and newsletters (see here and here) I have covered this sensitive topic, one that has been researched in pretty good depth over the past 2 decades. Dr Steven Blair, author of several articles with large data sets that show that being fit, even if beingRead More
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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
On Health and Health Care
The mckinsey quarterly report, an on line economics think-tank-like publication, comes from an economics/business perspective and articles deal with everything from banking to investing to market dynamics….to health care. Why not? That’s the fastest growing expense in our and the world’s economies. In the US, we spend about 16+% of our GDP on health care,Read More
Alcohol and Exercise Consumption?
Here’s an article that stimulates absolutely no thought in my mind: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/does-exercising-make-you-drink-… The essence is that exercise seems to stimulate rather than blunt alcohol consumption. Humans present one layer of evidence; mice, which we assume do not have social circumstances centered on alcohol consumption, also seem to thrill on alcohol intake if they are exercisers.Read More