Saturday, February 28, 2015

Saturday Stories: Chris Kyle, CAM, and a 'P' Value Ban

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Michael J. Mooney covers the real life story of American Sniper Chris Kyle . Edzard Ernst asks whether or not "complementary and alte...
Friday, February 27, 2015

A Laugh More Infectious than Measles

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Today's Funny Friday video is of a Russian baby with a tremendously wonderful laugh. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, February 26, 2015

When Intermittent Fasting is No Longer Intermittent Fasting

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Jean Fortunet [ CC BY 1.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons For those of you not familiar, there are three main intermittent fasting camps. There...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Another Study for the "You Can't Outrun Your Fork" File

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Published this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine was a study that looked at the impact of an interventionist led program ge...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

There's No Question that Nothing Will Change if you Change Nothing

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The inconvenient truth of healthful living? It requires effort. Just make sure that your efforts are enjoyable as the more extreme the e...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Consistency's a Far Better Goal than Perfection

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Consistency in doing your best, where your best will vary day by day. Sometimes variance will be consequent to things out of your control (i...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Saturday Stories: Kidneys, Childhood Heroes, Healing, and Cholesterol

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Jason Beaubien on NPR covers some new clues in the tragic story of the mystery kidney disease plaguing Central American sugar cane workers ....
Friday, February 20, 2015

Coordination is Not a Dog Given Right

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Grace neither, and today's Funny Friday video will make these points well. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, February 19, 2015

You Can Stack Your Deck, But You Can't Get a New One

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Still too sick to feel up to writing so no new post today either. Can't remember why but this ad came to mind the other day. Thought it ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Few Immediate Openings in our Office's Childhood Obesity Treatment Program.

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Sorry, no new post today. I've done and caught what I believe to be influenza and it has really knocked me off my feet. This post highli...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Guest Post: Why Has the Fitness Industry Become Elitist?

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Jonathan Goodman is a fitness trainer turned social media and business development guru. I met Jonathan when he asked me to come and give a ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Saturday Stories: A BMJ Sugar Special Edition

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I'm not sure how long these will all remain free and so today's Saturday Stories is a collection of stories that were all just publi...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Must Watch Video! American Kids React to Global Breakfasts

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What a great Funny Friday video! Funny, fascinating and topical! Thanks to Chad Nippard for sending my way. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, February 12, 2015

A Brief PSA Request. Don't Be a PubMed Warrior.

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Having vast amounts of information freely available is a wonderful thing, but please, for the love of anything you consider holy or importan...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

More and More Gyms Posting the Calories Burned Through Exercise

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It would seem to me that the only rationale for the posting of gym based calorie burns would be for weight management. Sure, some folks ma...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

It's Never "Just One"

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Did you know that February 7th was " National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast " Day? Surprising as it was for me to learn that we No...
Monday, February 09, 2015

New Brunswick MDs and RDs Team Up to Make School Menus Matter

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It's menus like this one that New Brunswick's MDs and RDs hope to change Over in New Brunswick the the New Brunswick Medical Soc...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

Saturday Stories: CAM, Trolls, and Gardasil

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Jerry Coyne in the New Republic (they're still have staff there?) discusses the sad case of Makayla Sault whose parents chose "trad...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Yoga Meets Pets (Not a Great Combo for Yoga)

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Today's Funny Friday video is for all the yoga loving pet owners out there. Have a great weekend! [Hat tip to our Director of Oper...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

The Co-Opting of Social Issues to Generate Brand Goodwill

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Literacy, clean drinking water, schools in third world countries, children's hospitals, sport fundraising, women's rights, end of li...