PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. The country has one doctor for 11,000 people. Electricity and running water are available in Port-au-Prince for two hours — on a good day. The chief surgeon at the General Hospital (the largest public national hospital) told me that patients [...]
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. Days 4 & 5 I slept through the aftershock this morning, a small 6.1 earthquake that has had no real impact because everything that could be destroyed was already destroyed. But the aftershocks that will ripple through the lives of [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. It is nine days after the quake, and last night three gaunt Haitian medical students, their school destroyed, came up to me in the dark as I walked past the nursing school with 150 nurses still buried in the rubble, [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. How can we measure the resiliency of the Haitian people who are the poorest in the western hemisphere with 55% living below the extreme poverty line of $1 a day? On a good day in Haiti, nearly half the population [...]
IMAGINE ALL OF the Federal buildings in Washington collapsing in less than a minute killing 30-40% of our government workforce, crippling the tax collection system leaving the government no money to pay salaries or overhead. Our government, which seems to barely work at full capacity with gleaming buildings and a gargantuan budget, would come to [...]
YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE LOTS OF TIME OR MONEY on your hands to be healthy! This is one of most common misconceptions I hear. I understand the challenges of trying to eat well with limited financial resources, limited time, or both. But I promise you – you don’t have to be rich or retired [...]
WHERE CAN I FIND A DOCTOR who practices the type of medicine that you do? That was the question I was recently asked when giving a talk about UltraWellness and functional medicine to the top health writers and publishers in America, who deal with all the leading edge nutritional and medical advice. These were the [...]
JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE TREATING your symptoms doesn’t mean you’re healthy. If you think your doctor is controlling your health problems because he or she has prescribed medication for them — well, you couldn’t be more wrong! That’s because doctors are very well-trained to treat symptoms and diseases, but NOT to address the underlying imbalances that [...]
ARE MILLIONS OF US BORN with a genetic defect that makes us produce too much stomach acid? Do we just have a major evolutionary design flaw that requires us to take powerful acid-blocking drugs to prevent heartburn and reflux? I believe that the answer to all of these questions is a resounding “no.” In this [...]
SHOULD WE BUY food with health claims on the label? These days, we are seeing more and more health claims that go beyond the usual. These include “trans fat-free,” “gluten-free,” “heart healthy,” and foods spiked with vitamins, such as my new favorite: Diet Coke Plus, with vitamins and minerals. We see whole-grain Pop Tarts and [...]
YOU COULD BE EATING sawdust — and not even know it! Sound crazy? Let me explain. On a recent plane ride to a medical conference, I started a conversation with the man sitting next to me to pass the time. I told him that I was a physician working in the area of nutrition. He [...]
THERE’S NO DOUBT about it. Artificial sweeteners cause obesity. I always thought it was funny to see a very large person order a Big Mac, large fries — and top it off with a Diet Coke. I also found it peculiar that I rarely saw thin people drinking diet sodas. So I began to wonder [...]