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I ran across this article in the medical press and wanted to get it out here in case it might help anyone.  If you read the article you will know as much about this test as I do.  In the near future I’ll get in touch with a few ob-gyn docs and get the real…

Here’s one for the Keen-Grasp-of-the-Obvious Archives. How do people get this kind of study published? I guess they all sit around at their various institutions Clinical centers: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (Stephen Daniels, MD, PhD, principal investigator; Frank S. Biro, co-investigator); Westat, Inc, Rockville, Md (George Schreiber, ScD, principal investigator; Ruth Striegel-Moore,…

We’re staying in the Corte Madera Inn while at the conference. Corte Madera is in Marin County, which is Dean Ornish country. In Dean Ornish country one expects a healthy, low-fat breakfast, and in Dean Ornish country, one isn’t disappointed. The Corte Madera Inn, which has one of the nicest, most pleasant, most helpful front…

I’ve gotten some comments on the bulletin board part of our soon-to-be-up, complete website that I need to address. I haven’t yet added any of the many comments I’ve received on the posts I’ve made here. I plead ignorance, busy-ness, and, most recently, despair. I don’t really understand how the whole blog software setup works,…

A study came out in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that has the press all a twitter. CNN reports: Study links fat in bloodstream to heart disease. WebMD headlines: New Blood Test May Help Spot Heart Disease. The WebMD article goes on to report: There may be a new way to…

Jonny Bowden must have been watching when Tucker Carlson threw himself in with the lot who bought into that idiotic report that came out recently stating that obesity isn’t really a health problem, and that it’s, in fact, better off to be a little hefty. I can see why the simple minded or those who…

A study published in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition presents evidence that a lifetime of high-carbohydrate consumption significantly increases the chances of developing cataracts. As the article points out, cataracts are the leading cause of blindness: Results of a nationwide survey of middle-aged and older Americans revealed that blindness…

I’ve heard through the grapevine that a number of manufacturers are in a blind panic over the upcoming January 1, 2006 deadline for including trans fat (in the same way that saturated fats and cholesterol are required to be listed now) in the nutritional labeling. And with good reason. AC-Neilson, a New York based consumer…

A new study appearing online in the “Articles in Press” section of Economics and Human Biology reports that overweight people who lose large amounts of weight become wealthier. It’s obviously impossible to tell if the loss of weight is the cause of the increase in wealth but there is a correlation for sure. The article…