Keeping Our Wits With (and About) Our Cholesterol
We have long known, and right we have been, that elevated blood cholesterol levels, notably LDL levels, are bad for hearts and arteries, and the bodies and minds those suffuse and serve. What then...
View ArticleThe True Paradox of Obesity
Readers of a certain age will recall, and perhaps still find themselves singing from time to time, the song: He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother. That sentiment – that we’ve got one another’s backs, and...
View ArticleThe Mediterranean Diet: Where Are We Now?
The lead up to the Mediterranean Diet Roundtable conference at Yale University, where I will be privileged to serve as speaker and MC has been, in a word, turbulent. Over just the past couple of weeks,...
View ArticleDiet and the Art of Denying the Obvious
Scarcely a week goes by these days without hearing yet again from some perch of lofty intellectual reflection that we know nothing about the basic feeding of Homo sapiens. We are told our research is...
View ArticleHealth: One Measure to Rule Them All
This week, I am coining a new term: vigevity. Self-evidently, perhaps, this is the combination of vitality and longevity. I suppose “longality” might also serve, but I like vigevity better to...
View ArticleOf Death, Dust, and Fire
This column is ordinarily about some variant on the theme of my profession, Preventive Medicine. The mission of every preventionist is to do all we can to help the healthy stay entirely well; to help...
View Article“Best” Exercise in Doubt; Couch Shortage Feared
A nation of potatoes overran (well, shuffled, really) their couches today, and a serious shortage in couch space is feared. The movement- or rather, lack thereof- was characterized by a prevailing...
View ArticleOut of the Closet, Together, at Christmas
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, deck the halls, peace on earth, good will toward people, pandas, and puffins, and… so on. I would really love to linger here, because I am a sentimentalist, a...
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Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?
There may be more targeted ways to beat the pandemic. We routinely differentiate between two kinds of military action: the inevitable carnage and collateral damage of diffuse hostilities, and the...
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Coronavirus Mortality Data from Italy: Hard-Earned Messages of Opportunity &...
Of the slightly more than 30,000 total, global deaths from coronavirus to date, a third of them all have been in Italy. That sad distinction means Italy is the source of our best potential insights...
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