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The 10 Happiest Cities In America, According To National Geographic
By Suzy Strutner
Residents in these cities are healthy, active and feel supported by family and friends.
HEALTHY LIVING
Best-Selling Author Shares Secrets To Living Longer The Blue Zone Way
By Armin Rosen, Contributor
Writer
Dan Buettner has spent the last several years trying “to reverse-engineer longevity,” he said in a keynote address at the
HEALTHY LIVING
Pseudoconfusion About Saturated Fat: 5 Reasons For One Hot Mess
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
I know, you keep hearing conflicting reports about saturated fat and health outcomes. So do I. Most recently, just a few
HEALTHY LIVING
How To Feed Humans? Like A Species
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
We are a species. Perhaps that’s a bit of a blow to our modern, so-over-biology, Homo sapien arrogance; but it’s true just
HEALTHY LIVING
Good Nutrition, In Circles On The Road To Nowhere
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Given the almost dizzying frequency of diet-related headlines, the one true revelation about nutrition is superficially the
WELLNESS
Guns, Butter, and The Burden of Proof
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
But our faithfulness to any principle is always imperfect because we are imperfect. That does not invalidate the principle
WELLNESS
Of Course Obesity Rates Keep Rising!
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
The current (June 7, 2016) issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association devotes much of its rarefied real estate
WELLNESS
How Salt Shakes Out
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Risks of too little sodium are a valid concern only at levels massively below mean intake in the U.S., while the harms of excess are with us right now. The priority, obviously, is fixing what's broken. Kudos to the FDA. Their action on salt does not yet have traction in the real world -- but it does pertain to it.
WELLNESS
The Fountain of Youth, Where No One Drinks
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
We have been preoccupied with anti-aging perhaps since the very dawn of self-awareness, and the implications of mortality it unveiled. We have, ever since, tethered our fears to faith and fantasy, tangled our aspirations up in fable -- about fountains of youth in particular.
WELLNESS
Diet Study Outcome? Work It; Flip It; Reverse It!
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Conclusions about diet study outcomes that are this precarious, that can be worked just a bit, and flipped -- are utterly useless. They are propaganda.
WELLNESS
(Cultural) Implications of Biggest Losers' Unfortunate (re)Gains
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
What the New York Times tells us today, no surprise to those of us who have worked directly with severely obese patients over the years, is that failure overtakes the show participants, too. Those of us in these trenches have known all along that though challenging, weight loss is rarely the rate-limiting problem.
WELLNESS
Health Care: Of United, and Citizens
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
As for the status quo, United is a business, and has the option of renouncing its high costs. The people paying for business as usual with their lives -- do not.
WELLNESS
Chewing the (Dairy) Fat With Dr. Mehmet Oz
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Medicine and the media are in some ways like a celebrity marriage: of widespread, seemingly irresistible interest; and routinely on the brink of disaster. Neither union, nor the prevailing fascination with it, is apt to go away soon.
WELLNESS
Musical Diets: You Can Dance if You Want to...
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
We are no strangers to a dizzying array of distorted headlines about diet. But the last couple of weeks took it to a whole new level.
WELLNESS
Diet, Deafness and the Drums of War
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
A commentary just out in JAMA says many reasonable things about diet and health. The author notes that the overall low quality of the prevailing American diet is an anchor on life expectancy itself. Amen to that.
WELLNESS
Vegetarianism: Nutrition Science Meets Media Nonsense
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
The study does not report that vegetarianism increases the risk of heart disease, cancer, or any other bad outcome. Nothing of the sort. Not even close.
WELLNESS
How Diets Divide Us
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Even for someone who spends as much time in the diet war trenches as I do, the barrage of the past week has been noteworthy for its intensity, and its implications -- both exceptionally hopeful, and dire.
WELLNESS
Selling Diets or Telling Truths
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
We know what to eat; we simply keep refusing, across an expanse of squandered decades, to swallow it.
WELLNESS
Truth About Saturated Fat
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
The truth about saturated fat is not unsettled. What is unsettled is: Can we handle the truth?
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Public Health and Citizens, Truly United
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
Public health is all about doing the best we can for actual people, not a statistical and anonymous horde that exists nowhere outside of actuarial tables. That doesn't always align with the greatest profits for some large corporation. In fact, it almost never does, because of the time horizons involved.
WELLNESS
Taking Public Health to the Moon
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
By rallying to the mandate of the evidence-based, consensus-based fundamentals of health promoting, sustainable living and eating -- I believe we can accomplish something for public health and the human condition that is, quite simply -- out of this world
WELLNESS
Fatness, Affluence, Adaptation and Hope
By David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., Contributor
Founder, True Health Initiative
We are a uniquely adaptable species. It has led us into trouble that imperils ourselves, and our planet alike. There are early indications of hope that it could lead us out as well.
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