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The Information Diet
The New Year season is full of resolutions to diet for weight loss. It’s also one of the most fruitful seasons for merchants who produce weight-loss products to add to their bottom line. They’re easy...
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Restriction: It’s not just for calories
I’m sitting in the Newark airport and having a sandwich at the Earl of Sandwich (it’s the only place I can sit down here, it seems). There was a sign as I came up the ramp for “PI” stating that “He’s a...
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Toe-ing the line: What I think about this whole shoe thing
Oldest discovered leather shoe: 5500 years old I’ve had a few emails asking me to review some of the literature on the new shoe trend. Every company is jumping on the bandwagon to create their version...
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You don’t add higher octane gas to the house that’s on fire to put it out.
The World Health Organization’s definition of health, which I had to memorize in the first month of medical school, is, “The state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the...
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How statistics can protect your willpower
Today is Valentine’s Day (Happy Valentine’s/Bitter Single’s Day!). So I thought I’d give my post a brain-washing theme (cynical much? ) With the advent of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and now, Vine,...
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30 seconds of idiocy. The cure for cancer is delayed by decades.
There was a really interesting letter in the journal Nature on Thursday, “Australia’s grant system wastes time,” which was about how much time goes into preparing a grant for funding with Australia’s...
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When is a calorie not a calorie? To get to the other side (Yup, just another...
By Gary Larson This one gets bandied around a lot: “A calorie isn’t a calorie.” It’s a clever gimmicky catch-phrase because it a) challenges the reader to re-evaluate what they think is a set-in-stone...
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Holy hell balls, only 2 weeks of class on obesity? (Or, why I really...
Medical school is full of stuff to learn. A lot of stuff. Every day is a new day of a massive volume of information. It’s like trying to take a sip from a fire hose. Residency is even more. The AMA...
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Evidence and innovation: Behind or not?
Source: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/hindsight-is-always-twenty-twenty Spurred on by Bret Contreras and a Facebook link from Lars Avemarie, “If you are truly evidence-based, you’re only as good...
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Yummy (?) but not special Part II: Bulletproof Coffee
Photo credit: James Neish (it’s not Bulletproof) I really didn’t think Bulletproof Coffee was going to take off like it did; and initially, I definitely didn’t want to write about it because I feel...
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