Showing posts with label David. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Lifestyle Medicine: Have Hammer, See Nails, Seeking Spoon

Lifestyle is the best medicine. The perennial challenge is figuring out what makes the best spoon.
I suppose I might be prone to bias on this topic. Famously, when you have a hammer, you tend to see nails everywhere you look. As president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, then, perhaps it's no surprise that I see opportunity to apply this remedy everywhere I look. Lifestyle medicine is my hammer.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

David Katz, M.D.: Diet Research, Stuck in the Stone Age

You cannot get a good answer to a lousy question.
The current diet study making headlines purportedly asked, and answered this question: Which is better for weight loss and improving cardiac risk, a low-fat or a low-carb diet? For starters, that is a truly lousy question, resurrected from something like the Stone Age. I doubt even the Paleo clan find the question attractive, since they like prehistoric food, not prehistoric research questions about food.