Pollan Rules

"Food Rules: An Eater's Manual" by Michael Pollan


Pretty much anything Michael Pollan writes these days is an automatic NY Times bestseller... and rightfully so, given his skills of exposition, especially on the food-related concerns he has now made a career from.  You could probably condense all the writing and text in his latest (2009) volume, "Food Rules," into about 25 pages if you chose

Diet, Cancer, etc.

Some anti-cancer rules from Dr. David Servan-Schreiber:

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ome anti-cancer rules from Dr. David Servan-Schreiber:

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Danger of the 'Dilbert' Workplace

 More on the ill effect of sitting and sedentary lifestyle here:

http://www.physorg.com/news183065121.html

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TV Watching and Health

 I don't generally put much weight in epidemiological-type studies, but would concur with the conclusions of this study finding TV watching (and other sedentary behaviors, especially involving sitting) shave years off one's lifespan (correlating with heart disease):

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H1N1 More Serious Than Many Realize

This report on a CDC study concludes that, "The number of confirmed cases of H1N1 flu from April to July represents just 2% of the actual people who were infected with the virus, according to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention."

and adds:

"The study estimates that for every confirmed case, there was likely a median of 79 actual people infected with the virus. Using the

More On Cell Phones and Cancer

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CT Scan Errors

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Prostate Cancer Overdiagnosed...

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Food Production

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Celiac Disease

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Kidney Disease Testing Made Easy...

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Laughter... The Best Medicine?

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"SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"

Elucidating The Mind-Body Connection... 'We Are Built To Move'....I've long thought that movement and touch are essentials to the health and well-being of living things ("You are built to move," writes the author), and I'm also much interested in the whole 'mind-body connection' arena. So it was natural that a book entitled "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" would

"Worried Sick" Podcast

Here, a podcast of an interview from the "People's Pharmacy" radio show with rheumatologist (and iconoclast) Dr. Nortin Hadler. Within the medical establishment Hadler is a gadfly, highly critical of many of the routine uses of medicine in America today. Always seeking common-sense, truth-in-advertising, and an end to medical hyperbole, Hadler isn't afraid to expose sacred cows or find major