Food or Sleep? Paula Deen may be getting the headlines, but diabetes is a threat to America’s health – and to our economy. If present trends continue – in some ways things are getting worse – perhaps one third of Americans will become diabetic by 2030. Diabetes means that our main fuel source – glucose […]
Changing the color of your fat (1/20/12)
Making Fat Beautiful Want to control weight? Avoid diabetes? Appear more youthful? You might want to change your white fat to brown. Fortunately the color shift – and function of fat – is under your control. Greek Gods, Bears, and Your Waistline New research from Harvard, led by cell biologist Bruce Spiegelman and published in […]
5 Things to learn from Paula Deen’s Diabetes (1/18/12)
Media Diabetes Paula Deen has diabetes – for three years. Just as in the movie Casablanca, people are shocked! Shocked! But before demonizing Ms. Deen and her butter filled southern recipes, let’s look at what the public should gain from this overhyped, simplified media story: Diabetes – even “adult onset” type II – is highly […]
Hot dogs and diabetes (9/6/11)
How Can Hot Dogs Be Bad For You? Never deny the force of genetics or fate – yet the trick to being healthy is staying healthy. Which means another American icon may soon leave your school cafeteria. Regularly eating hot dogs increases your chance of getting diabetes – by quite a lot. So does bacon, […]
Even zombies need to sleep (7/22/11)
The Eternal Need to Rest Rob Zombie doesn’t want to sleep again. Ever. The creator of “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto,” front man of the noise rock band “White Zombie,” and director of “House of a 1000 Corpses”, its sequels “the Devil’s Rejects”, no less than two Halloween movie sequels and the classic Grindhouse […]