National Public Health Week: Can We Become A Healthier Nation? I think many people living in the United States would be surprised to know that we are not one of healthiest nations in the world. Not even close. The American…
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Is Junk Food as Addictive as Cocaine?
Have you ever felt like you were addicted to junk food? A shocking new study finds that this can actually happen. Apparently foods high in fat and sugar can be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine. This addictive aspect of…
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Greg Grunberg of “Heroes” Talks About Epilepsy
I was honored to have a chance to talk with Greg Grunberg (star of the NBC show Heroes) last week about his work to bring more awareness and understanding to epilepsy. Greg, who’s son Jake was diagnosed with epilepsy at…
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Breaking Science News: Success at CERN (see videos)
Higgs particles, dark matter, string theory, black holes, the big bang…What will scientists discover at CERN? I find this incredibly exciting. What do you think? From Channel 4 News… Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) are…
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Healthcare: Fake Medical Insurance
A few weeks ago I noticed that I was seeing an increasing number of commercials advertising inexpensive “easy to get” health insurance. The first thing that came to my mind was…This has got to be some sort of scam. Otherwise,…
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Healthcare, Politics, and the High Cost of Healthy Foods
Are healthcare, politics, and the high cost of healthy foods related? Yes. Let me start by saying…I am so sick of politics I could throw-up. But that said, this is about much more than politics. It’s about the warped reality…
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Health News: Too Many Invasive Heart Tests
We’ve heard a lot about too many mammograms leading to too many invasive biopsies. But now a recent study is showing that doctors may be doing too many invasive heart tests as well. Every year more than a million people…
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Foods That Increase Your Risk Of Stroke
Are you eating the one thing that increases a woman’s risk of stroke? A new study has found that a diet high in fat (specifically trans-fat) increases a woman’s risk of stroke. We already know that high fat diets increases…
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Breast Cancer: My Interview With Dr. Laura Esserman
I was honored to be asked to attend the Avon Foundation’s Breast Cancer Forum last week in San Francisco. And I have a lot of information to share with everyone. I’m going to start with an interview I did with…
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A Series of Posts on Breast Cancer
I was honored to be asked to attend the Avon Foundation’s Breast Cancer Forum earlier this week in San Francisco. And I have so much to share with everyone about all that I learned there. I decided to do that…
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