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During my family medicine rotation, I noticed the physicians I worked with focused more time on weight management than in any other outpatient clinic I had worked in. Recently, while on a less demanding elective, I decided to conduct my own observational study. How often, and with what prompting, do physicians address their patients’ weight? […]
June 22, 2012
I’ve been interested in health and nutrition since I started playing high school sports. During my 3 year stint as a personal trainer, I developed a distinct opinion of the Body Mass Index (or BMI – the most widely used anthropomorphic measurement in medicine): it’s not a very good tool. My issue with BMI began […]
October 8, 2011
I recently took care of a patient who, very unfortunately, had undiagnosed type II diabetes and presented in a state known as Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic Syndrome (HHNS) – his blood sugar on presentation was ~1,000 mg/dL. HHNS is a very serious complication of untreated diabetes, but can happen to any type II diabetic with poor […]
July 19, 2011
As we are reminded that obesity is still a problem in America, and the USDA tries again to revise its image, it becomes more important by the day to help people learn how to stop the process of packing on those extra pounds each year. A long-term study recently published in the New England Journal […]
May 12, 2011
April was National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Month (or National Donate Life Month), and though I campaigned as best I could while studying, I didn’t have time to draft a decent post. Fortunately, it’s not too late for me to dedicate a post to National Osteoporosis Awareness Month. Osteoporosis is a poorly understood concept […]
February 19, 2011
(The Health Wrap-Up is on hiatus this weekend) Some people are up in arms over the FDA’s decision to sanction the use of gastric banding in a wider range of patients. This news coming in the wake to reject three more weight-loss drugs – solutions many physicians (bariatric surgeons included) have been hoping for. Many […]
February 18, 2011
Even with the growing mountain of evidence against a sedentary lifestyle, Americans still struggle when it comes to the issue of getting enough activity. This Wednesday, the CDC released a new report with new activity estimates for all U.S. counties. The conclusion? “Americans who live in parts of Appalachia and the South are the least […]
February 5, 2011
The past few days were terribly busy & have kept me from posting. Here are some of this week’s most interesting findings: Aerobic exercise boosts hippocampal volume: The hippocampus is a small region of brain that is critical to the storage & retrieval of long-term memory and spatial reasoning – it’s also the first to […]
January 12, 2011
I know I’m not the only one struggling with the influx of inexperienced gym-goers that occurs predictably each year after everyone has made their resolutions (and like the waning tide, retreats around 8 weeks later). Many people are self-conscious about how they’ll be perceived, whether they’ll look like they’re inexperienced or not. The truth is, […]
January 10, 2011
I’d like to introduce you to two great websites that will help you track your diet (or that can be used as a quick reference to help you make dietary choices): NutritionData.com and FitDay.com Both are very accessible (free) and user-friendly. The best thing about FitDay is that it has many commercial foods available, so […]
Abnormal Facies 
December 27, 2012
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