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Balance Training – A Wobbly Concept

September 17, 2010

I saw this article in the NY Times yesterday on balance training for the elderly. I braced myself for the fallout.
As per usual when these sorts of articles come out, clients phone in wanting to know the skinny on the issues. One of my long standing senior clients (of almost 10 years), Phyllis, called [...]

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Even The New York Times Fails Us

September 16, 2010

Well sportsfans it seems that The NY Times has joined forces with The Huffinton Post in getting their facts twisted on the recent survey which indicated, albeit weakly, that if you eat a lot of carbs and eat fat and meat you run a slightly higher risk of dying earlier and suffering more maladies than [...]

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Dean Ornish Addendum

September 13, 2010

A few people wrote to me in response to my last blog post on Dean Ornish. They felt I unfairly attacked him and that this was not justified or worthy of me.
One person said:
Fred, I am really interested when you contradict information, but kind of turned off, reading attacks on other people who [...]

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Dean Ornish – Pioneer of Health or Profiteer for Wealth?

September 12, 2010

For well over two decades Dean Ornish, M.D., current Senior Medical Editor for the Huffington Post, has been advocating and promoting a low-fat, plant-based diet.
Since his bestselling book Eat More, WEIGH LESS came out in 1993, millions of people have adhered to his dietary advice. To this very day, he continues to promote the [...]

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Mayo Clinic misleads or, is it just innocent diabetes ignorance?

March 18, 2010

Rummaging through my daughter’s school book sale yesterday, I spied and dug out a copy of the Mayo Clinic’s: The Essential Diabetes Guide 2010. I reached into my pocket, pulled out a buck and paid the friendly but frazzled public school volunteer.
Flipping through it, I paused at Chapter 3, Developing a Healthy Eating Plan. [...]

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My Plea To Michelle Obama

February 10, 2010

Michelle Obama was on Good Morning America on Tuesday, February 9th to discuss her war on adolescent obesity. She calls it the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign. I highly commend her effort and desire to end this ‘epidemic.’ You can watch the segment here.
While her heart and soul is right on the money, unfortunately, her [...]

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Diabetes Disaster

January 11, 2010

A friend sent this to me:

OMG. Well there you have it folks.
If this sort of behavior and thinking is out there in the world, we haven’t got a chance in heck of helping people.
(Side note: I read today that our beloved Mayor Bloomberg is now out to get salt. He’s cracking down on [...]

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Tim Ferris, Gary Taubes, Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Ben Bocchicchio, The Metabolsim Society and I

May 7, 2009

I am combining a few small blog posts into one today in order to catch you all up on my recent travels, trials and tribulations. I've been bouncing around the nation listening to lectures by some brilliant minds, having dinner with great people and once again being slammed in the face with how much I [...]

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