Healthcare Reform: Too Big To Fail

Eric Dishman Rumors of the demise of healthcare reform have been greatly exaggerated. After Scott Brown’s upset victory for the Massachusetts Senate seat, the news media and blogosphere are abuzz. Ah, folks, we have ourselves an official media frenzy! Let the hyperbole begin: “The world has changed,” “Everything is different […]

UCTV Mini-Medical School

UCTV SERIES UCSF MINI MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR THE PUBLIC SERIES PROGRAMS WATCH LISTEN TV BUY Don’t Panic! The ABCs of Pediatric Emergencies First Air Date: 11/9/2009 The Bermuda Triangle of Pediatric Obesity: More Than Just the Calories First Air Date: 11/2/2009 Supplements for Children: Is There a Friendly Bacteria? First Air Date: […]

Healthy Choices For Children: A Critical Look at Gerber Graduates Cereal Bars and Healthy Alternatives

Meredith Magee Donnelly / Guest Blogger Looking at the list of ingredients on a box of Gerber Graduates Cereal Bars I was surprised to see high fructose corn syrup listed as one of the first ingredients in both the crust and the filling. On the back cover of Nutrition Action Healthletter, one of my favorite sources for […]

Fat Tax: Paying Big For Poor Nutrition

VIDEO Here is the cold hard truth about Prevention according to the Institute of Medicine’s senior scholar J. Michael McGinnis. People who die early in America have mostly themselves to blame. Dr. McGinnis’s analysis reveals that 30% of early deaths are driven by genetics or inherited vulnerabilities; 20% are the result of poor environmental or […]

Fat Tax: Paying Big For Poor Nutrition

Here is the cold hard truth about Prevention according to the Institute of Medicine’s senior scholar J. Michael McGinnis. People who die early in America have mostly themselves to blame. Dr. McGinnis’s analysis reveals that 30% of early deaths are driven by genetics or inherited vulnerabilities; 20% are the result of poor environmental or social […]

Healthy Choices for Children

A critical look at Gerber Graduates Cereal Bars and healthy alternatives Looking at the list of ingredients on a box of Gerber Graduates Cereal Bars I was surprised to see high fructose corn syrup listed as one of the first ingredients in both the crust and the filling. On the back cover of Nutrition Action […]

New York City Takes on the American Diet

New York City is 8 million strong, the epicenter of global finance and "type A" personalities. It is also the home of 1 million obese Americans and an additional 2 million who are clinically overweight.1 Eighteen percent of those who are obese and 10% of those who are overweight suffer from diabetes.1,2 The cost of […]

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