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The American Medical Association passed a resolution encouraging hospitals to offer healthy plant-based food options....
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
The American Medical Association passed a resolution encouraging hospitals to offer healthy plant-based food options. “Globally, 11 million deaths annually are attributable to dietary factors, placing poor diet ahead of any other risk factor for death in the world.” Given...
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Med Students Must Stop Performing Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women Without Their Consent
Please note: This blog contains descriptions of sexual assault. “Recent reports of medical students performing...
“An Outrageous Assault”: Pelvic Exams by Med Students on Anesthetized Women
Please note: This blog contains descriptions of sexual assault. From Heart Failure, a book I...
Are Doctors Knowledgeable About Nutrition?
Do you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors? “A poor diet now outranks...
Inhospitable Hospital Food
What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be...
Dishonest Doctors
One of the critical questions to ask whenever reading a medical journal article is, “Who...
Find Out If Your Doctor Is on the Take with Just Two Clicks
A long-time editor of a prestigious medical journal started his editorial on physicians’ conflicts of...
Risks vs. Benefits of Colonoscopies
Though colonoscopies can cause serious harm in about 1 in every 350 cases, sigmoidoscopies, procedures...
How Doctors Responded to Being Named a Leading Killer
In my video Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure, I profiled a paper...
Plant-Based Diets as the Nutritional Equivalent of Quitting Smoking
Despite the most widely accepted and well-established chronic disease practice guidelines uniformly calling for lifestyle...
Should Cancer Patients Avoid Raw Fruits and Vegetables?
Back in the 1960s, a patient isolator unit was developed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy....
How Much Nutrition Education Do Doctors Get?
In the United States, most deaths are preventable and related to nutrition. Given that the...
Medical Care: The Third Leading Cause of Death
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but a pound isn’t that...
How Well Do Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Actually Work?
One of the reasons people may undervalue diet and lifestyle changes is an overconfidence in...
Do You Meet the Simple Seven?
In public health school, you learn there are three levels of preventive medicine. Primary prevention...
How to Treat Prediabetes with Diet
For people with prediabetes, lifestyle modification is considered “the cornerstone of diabetes prevention.” Diet-wise, this...
Evidence-Based Nutrition
Dr. Esselstyn’s landmark study, demonstrating that even advanced triple vessel coronary artery disease could be...
Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Nutrition Education in Medicine: A Doctor a Day Keeps the Apples Away
This month in the journal Academic Medicine yet another editorial was published decrying the sorry...
