New York Times health columnist Jane Brody is upset. Like most advocates for public health, she can’t understand why Americans don’t eat their vegetables. The advantages are so great and so obvious, why won’t the population bend to the media barrage and do the right thing? Simple – because they are strongly conditioned not to. […]
Celebrity Rehab and the Power of Rest (9/29/10)
Treatment through the Power of Rest Rest is regeneration, and people are so stressed out they need that reset now. Two months ago in Huffington Post I wrote about how performance pressure, crazy hours, adulation, the end of privacy and the insanity of show business lead many performers into preventable addictions. Yesterday I learned Lindsay […]
Is melatonin really like crack (9/24/10)?
Biologically, not even close. Yet according to actor Ryan Reynolds, the Spanish authorities treat it that way. Reynolds is in Spain filming the movie “Buried,” where he plays an American truck driver kidnapped in Iraq and stuck in a coffin – where he apparently spends a lot of time. Being filmed locked in a coffin […]
Murder – caffeine made me do it
Woody Smith of Dayton, Kentucky killed his 28 year old wife in May of last year. The prosecution claims it was murder. Smith’s defense said he was insane, not aware of what he was doing due to caffeine pills and energy drinks, leading to such severe sleep deprivation that he strangled his wife. The defense […]