While in San Diego last week, the biggest highlight for me (other than my talk, of course) was the keynote, Malcolm Gladwell. Chris Berman of espn also gave a keynote, which I did not attend. But by all accounts, underwhelming would be a compliment.
Gladwell, on the other hand, was excellent. I furiously took notes [...]
On March 10, 2010, the Medical Wellness Association sponsored a Medical Wellness and Nutrition forum as part of the IHRSA convention in San Diego. As an aside, Sunny San Diego? Are you kidding me? It was sunny, but, man, was it cold! The wind was blowing. Hard. Felt it to my bones. Probably not cold [...]
In the last post, I detailed the 10 books I read last year. Here’s a list of books I intend to read this year. As stated, the goal is 11 books. The list contains nine, leaving two spots open. There are two reasons for this. One, it’s early and something is bound to come out [...]
I”m not one for New Year’s Resolutions. Don’t know why. Never have been. But most people want to lose weight or start exercising more at this time of year. Those great and I help people do this all day, but I also like to read. Books, magazines, newspapers, journals, anything, really. Not much for the [...]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming (Top 10 non-generic and generic prescription drugs) to bring you this, what appears to be a concerted effort on the part of Big Pharma to keep their precious statins high on the list of prescribed drugs. (can you blame them? Between Lipitor and Simvistatin you’re looking at 109.2 million [...]
Some random links on cholesterol and diabetes. They arrived in my daily research update and I’ve found them interesting. Interesting in that most of the treatments focus on a big pharma approach when simply dietary changes will work just as well.
So without further adieu, here are the ones I found most interesting…
Could it be [...]
A couple of more articles pimpin’ the other benefits of statins…
Cholesterol Lowering Drugs May Help Prevent Stroke Recurrence
New Research Claims Cholesterol Drug Could Reduce Risk Of Amputations In People With Diabetes
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January 11, 2008
This article, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association concludes that heart disease risk may increase with a lack of Vitamin D. The benefits of Vitamin D and cancer prevention (bone health too!) have been known for years. In June of last year, I had a blog post regarding this. Actually, [...]
January 8, 2008
The American College of Sports Medicine published it’s fitness trends report for 2008 in December of last year.
A pdf version of the article is here: http://www.informz.net/acsm/data/images/worldwidetrends.pdf
In surveying nearly 2,000 fitness professionals throughout the world and corroborating with internationally known fitness experts, a list of 20 fitness trends was identified. I’m giving you [...]
January 07, 2008.
From a recent article posted in the San Jose Mercury News by Melinda Sacks…
I took the liberty of highlighting important benefits in each of the points. The benefits of weight training are numerous and this article does a good job of highlighting some of the more
important ones.
Even though this article is [...]
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