Gah. I gave a talk last month at a national conference of personal trainers. In my goody-bag was this Gatorade protein bar. Its packagin...

Of all the Departments of Health out there, I wouldn't have expected this from New York City's. It's a poster that they're...

Riccardo Gazzaniga with the heartening backstory of the white guy in that iconic 1968 summer Olympics photo . Sam Anderson in The New Yo...

Today's Funny Friday video is an amazing PSA in support of organ donation. Are you a donor? If not, maybe that could be your project f...

Today my piece with the NIH's Kevin Hall was published in The Lancet . The piece, reproduced below, speaks to the lack of clinical uti...

Though they only lasted a single day, it wasn't public cynicism over McDonald's latest scheme to excuse eating there that sunk the...

Meghan Kita in Runners World explains that the problem isn't women running alone. David Satter in National Review on how terrorism bro...

If you didn't see this chat with two fantastic Irish rowers then yes, yes you did miss Rio's greatest interview. Today's Funny...

It's been over a dozen years since we opened our weight management office. In that time we have worked with literally thousands of p...

Image Source: ThinnerGene Certainly that's the notion behind the rise of the for-profit personalized medicine genetic testing industr...

David Armstrong in Stat with more on Fentanyl, the stealth killer that's gaining ground . David Schraub in The Tablet on how words and...

At least judging from today's Funny Friday video they are. Have a great weekend!

Thanks to my friend and med school classmate Christine Gibson for sharing this with me. It's called Raise a Patch and it's an Aus...

For the most part, supplement sales and hype are built off of extrapolations. Extrapolations of animal studies to people, extrapolations of ...

Alex Hutchinson in Runner's World with a case study of the slimy salesmanship of science by supplement sellers . Former CIA director M...

Honestly, this is a very sweet Funny Friday video. Have a great weekend!

From the annals of corporate sponsored research comes this gem that was sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association, " No Effect of Suga...

I took this photo at my local supermarket a few weeks ago. It's a rather mind boggling product. As is evidenced by the photo up ab...

Image by  Psychonaught Abe Greenwald, in Commentary, presents a blistering indictment of Obama's foreign policy as it pertains to th...

Today's Funny Friday will appeal to both players and non-players alike! Have a great weekend!