Blog Entries by Dr. Jonny Bowden
Nutrition and the Obama Moment
For the last two years we've been hearing the question "Is America ready for a black president?"
Meanwhile, we've been ignoring the even more important question: "Is America ready for an intellectual president?"
Intellectuals have fallen on hard times in recent years.
It probably started back in the heyday...
Low Carbohydrate Diets and the Political Conventions
Posted September 24, 2008 | 03:37 PM (EST)
As I write this, the second of the two political conventions has just come to a close. By all accounts, more people are paying attention to these gatherings than any time in recent memory- the top "attractions" of both parties easily drew in millions more viewers than the 2008 American...
Addicted to Oil, Addicted to Sugar
Posted September 5, 2008 | 05:32 PM (EST)
There are some striking parallels between the gas crisis and the obesity crisis.
Nobody disagrees that we're "addicted to oil". The debate about what to do about it illuminates a divide that neatly parallels the divide over what to do about obesity.
Clamoring for cheaper gas and offshore drilling (which...
Doctors, Nutritionists and Jewish Geography
Posted August 13, 2008 | 07:05 PM (EST)
So the other day I'm having a perfectly lovely conversation with an exercise guru who is pretty much a household name in the world of popular diet books, the author of at least a dozen of these suckers (one of which was a NY Times best seller), a pretty smart...
Eating Well is a Revolutionary Act
Posted July 28, 2008 | 07:01 PM (EST)
Back in 1950, the husband and wife team of Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck -- both criminologists and Harvard Law School professors -- published the results of their lifelong study of juvenile delinquency ("Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency"). Now I didn't attend Harvard Law, but my father did, and here's how he summed...
My Not-So-Excellent NY Times Adventure
Posted July 4, 2008 | 03:25 PM (EST)
Before telling you about my not-so-excellent adventure in the NY Times blogosphere, allow me to quote Paul Krugman, the Princeton economist and columnist for the NY Times, on another matter:
"Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn't scream. Hilary Clinton didn't say she was staying...
Prostitution, the Law of Averages and Nutrition
Posted June 23, 2008 | 10:15 AM (EST)
The reaction in the press to Showtime's The Secret Diary of A Call Girl is even more interesting than the program itself.
In case you missed it, what seems to have engendered the most apoplexy in the blogosphere are the following lines, spoken by the protagonist, Belle: "I wasn't...
New Rules: No More Claiming Mona Vie Cures Cancer!
Posted June 11, 2008 | 02:55 PM (EST)
Nor, for that matter, AIDS. Nor lupus, GERD, acne, age spots, arthritis, a balding scalp or sagging libido.
Nope. Sorry.
And lest you think I'm picking on poor MonaVie, the same is true of Xango, Mangosteen, Xocai, Tahitian Noni, and all the other ridiculously...
On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against...
Time magazine reports that in his new book, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing...
TV Newser has learned that Fox News anchor E.D. Hill is leaving the channel after her contract was...
It was surely an odd bit of timing...
Now that Barack Obama and John McCain met on Monday, it's looking increasingly as...
Mr. Gregory C. Soumas Board of Elections in the...
Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Victoria's Secret's angels have descended upon...
Conservative personality Glenn Beck was accosted at his local Wendy's...
LAS VEGAS — Comedian Wanda Sykes says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has...
With the House of Representatives pledging an aid package for the auto...
SALT LAKE CITY — The view of...
My favorite story of the week was the news that Michelle Obama's mother will be coming to live with the...
Posted November 11, 2008 | 02:46 PM (EST)