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A group from the UK has developed a diagnostic website that’s fun to play around with. But don’t take the recommendations too seriously. And certainly don’t pay any attention to the dietary advice given. These folks are ignoring all the mountains of data to the contrary and are still clinging to the idea that humans…

Add another study to the list showing that drinking coffee somehow wards of type II diabetes. Scientists from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Harvard University report in the July 6, 2005 issue of JAMA that heavy coffee drinkers are somehow protected from developing type II diabetes. The current meta-analysis of cohort studies supports a significant inverse…

Robert Crayhon puts on a terrific nutrition/dietary/alternative medicine seminar called Boulderfest every July. I have spoken at several of these meetings, and I can tell you that they are both fun and informative. If you can attend, by all means do so. This years Boulderfest will feature Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD. Dr. Ravnskov, who has…

I’ve always believed that a thinking person should wish for a president from an opposing party to pick justices for the Supreme Court. It seems like whatever a justice is like going in changes diametrically during his (or her) tenure. Conservatives become liberals and vice verse. An article in today’s New York Times agrees. As…

Another Steyn piece that shouldn’t be missed what with all the hoopla over Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement.

A great Steyn piece about Live8. (Requires registration, but worth it.) Goes to show that you need to look at what people do, not what they say. And it ain’t just rock stars. Reminds me of a luncheon MD and I attended a couple of years ago at a restaurant with about a half dozen…

I can’t write about Paul Krugman with out thinking about one of my favorite, but relatively unknown and unheralded, economic writers, Arnold Kling. One of his pieces is a discussion of his Law of Proportionate Belief: The Law of Proportionate Belief states that one should believe in a certain proposition or policy prescription in proportion…

Despite his snappy title, which I shamelessly stole for this post, Paul Krugman gets it wrong as to the cause of the obesity epidemic in this country. He points the finger at greedy corporate profiteers who are pied pipering the youth of the nation into the depths of reckless dietary abandon and consequent obesity. The…

Played golf today for the last time this trip and was totally humiliated. I started out playing okay, but my friend really lit the course up. As his play improved, I worked harder, became more desperate, and my game deteriorated. My friend, who is an ex touring pro, came within one stroke of tying the…

The lack of AC and the consequent lack of decent sleep are beginning to eat into my ever-present good cheer. It hasn’t helped that I’ve walked 18 holes of golf every day on a different course in the brutal heat. There has been no reprieve, not even while shopping—even the large supermarkets are hot. It’s…