Recent Health & Fitness Posts
Urban homesteading in Oakland
Community supported appetites: Fun profile of the Bay Area’s food-movement power couple, Anya Fernald (former director of CAFF and the woman who pulled off nothing short of a miracle at… Read more »
Commentology
Futurist Jeff Goldsmith's analysis of issues that could cause problems for any health reform effort that eventually emerges from the foodfight in Washington this summer provoked a wide range of… Read more »
Is Wal-Mart Leading the Charge on Health Reform?
By RAHUL PARIKH Last Wednesday's headline in the Wall Street Journal may have surprised you. It read: "Wal-Mart Backs Drive to Make Companies Pay for Health Coverage." The article discussed… Read more »
Biggest and best month ever on THCB
By Matthew Holt By the time most of you read this, I’ll be heading to England to tell those Limeys how to do healthcare right the American way….or something like… Read more »
‘So we’re eating at Taco Bell and we’re cleaning the Earth!’
Extra Onion, please!: The Onion has the most satisfying send-up of fast-food greenwashing we’ve seen in a while. Love it.... Read more »
Low-Carb News And Health Headlines For June 2009
All the latest and greatest early summer low-carb health headlines Summertime is in full swing now and the wealth of information about carbohydrate restriction and healthy living hasn’t slowed down… Read more »
Careful What You Wish For
By THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMIST On the left are those who would like health reform to include a strong public plan, one that could negotiate large provider discounts, driving down the… Read more »
Nibbles: Heavy moms have trouble judging kids’ weight, following Kentucky’s lead on junk food in schools, and Belgium says Red Bull gets no kick from cocaine
Overweight moms are less good at judging that their child is overweight; E. coli confirmed at Toll House dough plant; Kentucky offers hopeful lessons on getting junk food out of… Read more »
‘Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show’ Episode 266: Julia Ross Says Carbohydrates Aren’t Food, They’re Addictive Drugs
DON’T MISS A SINGLE PODCAST EPISODE ON ITUNES: Please visit the new podcast feed to subscribe and access all the new episodes of my podcast show on iTunes. We are… Read more »
Doctor qualifications take center stage
By David Martin CNN Medical Senior Producer Michael Jackson’s sad and sudden death has brought the issue of physician qualifications to center stage. Jackson’s personal doctor, Conrad Murray, was a… Read more »
