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The Life Expectancy Gap & Income
I have done a number of posts on the influence of income and eduction on life expectancy. This topic will get more and traction as discussion about raising the retirement age accelerates due to the...
View ArticleOld and Unexciting Exercise Solutions
Last weekend in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times, Daniel Duane provided a personal narrative about how he adopted an old school and trainerless approach to weight lifting and essentially...
View ArticleDick Fosbury vs. Guidelines
Over the past couple of years I have argued that the current world wide obsession with “big data” and metrics is going to lead all sorts of people astray in many fields. The related idea is that every...
View ArticleBig Science: Moonshots or Music?
The announcement in early June that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was launching a 12 year 4.7 Billion dollar Initiative to study the brain caught my attention and spurred a bit of reflection...
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How the USA Got So Fat
You hear a lot of yapping about how the USA got so fat as a nation. All sorts of people want some simple reason for rise in obesity. That having been said, in the next eight charts I want to tell you...
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An Obesity Epidemic or an Inactivity Epidemic?
A few weeks ago I did a post that included 8 charts on how the U.S. got so obese. Below is a chart I missed from a paper published in early July. This study argues that less physical activity and not...
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Obesity and Bargaining
A couple of weeks ago I floated the idea that for many problems facing the world a sort of collective grieving process is going on. In this post I want to pick up on that theme again as it applies to...
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New Year’s 2015: Drinking Charts to Ponder
Who can think about New Year’s without thinking about drinking. The chart below is about 15 years old but still considered accurate and shows the relationship between drinking and the risk of...
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Remarkable Old People: Share Your Story!
Over the Holidays I bumped into a colleague who told me about her 95 year old father (a retired pharmacist) who is still physically active and living independently. He walks two miles per day, and...
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Moonshots & Medicine
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to land a featured op-ed in the New York Times about precision medicine in specific and the general topic of moonshots in medicine like the war on cancer. For those...
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Fitness & Mortality Update
Two recent scientific papers make it time for a quick update on the topic of fitness and mortality. 1. Fitness vs. Cancer Mortality The first paper is meta-analysis that summarizes the results of a...
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Precision Medicine & Precision Weather: A False Analogy?
One of the ideas riding the wave of enthusiasm for precision medicine is that with enough big data it should be possible to make increasingly accurate “forecasts” about who gets what disease and how it...
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Identical Twins & Genetic Destiny
There is a fascinating recent study from Finland on pairs of identical twins with very different exercise habits. This is unusual because widely divergent behavior patterns between identical twins are...
View ArticleIdea Bubbles & Medicine
Over the last few months I have run across a couple of ideas — really catchy phrases — that are influencing the way I think about trends and hopefully progress (or lack of it) in medicine. The phrases...
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A Roadmap To Better Health
It is finally here! Our data packed and evidence based book on major issues affecting the health of the U.S. population, including smoking, diet, physical activity, and the policy options to move us in...
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