My recent post on moderate drinking and breast cancer risk spurred a lot of comments.  So I thought you might also be interested in a new initiative from the National Institutes of Health called Rethinking Drinking. The goal is to help people assess the risks and/or benefits of their drinking h...

This weekend Leonardo DiCaprio was photographed by the web site justjared.com biking through Manhattan’s East Village not smoking a cigarette. He was not smoking because he had a new electronic device in his mouth the may resemble a cigarette in that it l ooks like a cigarette, feels like a cigare...

I’ve wanted to write this post for a long time, but kept delaying because I worried about coming off as a zealot or a loon. Yeah, I know, some people already think of me as zealous and loony about a lot of things, but somehow the noun versions seem worse. The thing is, I want my family and fri...

I’ve wanted to write this post for a long time, but kept delaying because I worried about coming off as a zealot or a loon. Yeah, I know, some people already think of me as zealous and loony about a lot of things, but somehow the noun versions seem worse. The thing is, I want my family and fri...

At GoGirlWorld, Holly McPeak talks about what nutrition lessons she had to learn that work for her as an athlete and for her as a female."Don't get me wrong. I still eat a lot – six small meals a... This is a content summary only. Vist April's Beach Volleyball Blog for full links, Volleyball Voice...

A while back I posted on Dr. John Berardi's experiment with a plant-based diet for muscle building. Well, the results are in and they look pretty good. Keep in mind he did eat eggs, but other than that, he was vegetarian. He did a little more bodyfat that I would like to see in a month, but when put...

It's Thursday—the day when the New York Times Style section constructs tenuous trend stories designed to infuriate us about largely illusory issues! Woo hoo! Today's trend: crazy parents turn their kids into health food zombies! Sure, you want to teach your kids to eat healthy food. But some p...

This is a fantastic article I found today: Common Mistakes People Make During Exercise By RADHA CHITALEABC News Medical Unit Feb. 23, 2009 — It's a new year and you're finally at the gym or outside, exercising , moving around and, generally, feeling good about what you are doing. Days, wee...

The self-defeating “I exercise, therefore I nosh” syndrome Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana were surprised, and you may be, too. They had conducted a research program that took three groups of overweight women and had them engage in different levels o...

This past week has not been a good one for me. I'm still in the hospital today...the OB is reluctant to release me and my stomach still isn't cooperating well from the 4 days with no food and water that is the treatment for acute pancreatitis. However, I got news I might get to go home this afternoo...