Heart Surgeon Speaks Out on What Really Causes Heart Disease

Some long-established medical and dietary recommendations are being proven wrong, and the medical community is (or should be) shifting its treatment and recommendations for heart disease. GREAT ARTICLE HERE.

Why We Get Fat - Outstanding Lecture by Gary Taubes

Losing weight and getting healthier is a common goal of many of our patients in the clinic, and clients at the gym. This is an outstanding lecture by Gary Taubes (MS 1978) that discusses the reasons behind why we get fat, and how many of the conclusions reached by science in the past, which our dietary and exercise guidelines are based on, have been inaccurate. It is quite lengthy (about 90 minutes), but VERY interesting and thought-provoking, so you may have to watch it in segments. There is ALOT of good information in this video, so we recommend you check it out if you get time.

His book is also available for purchase on many websites if you're interested.

Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK. He has won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97.

Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford (MS, 1978). After receiving a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines. Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned to medicine and nutrition.

Thanksgiving Eating Tips for Those with Diabetes

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We're all looking forward to that Thanksgiving Day Feast (I know I am). Here are some tips/info from the American Diabetes Association that can help all of us enjoy our Thanksgiving meal in a healthy but still very tasty way.