Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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In November 2010, NPR’s Fresh Air featured a story, “An Oncologist Writes a Biography of Cancer.” Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee was treat...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sound Medicine 01-16-11 from Sound Medicine

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This week: advice for exercising while sick; Dartmouth research on end-of-life care; why self-diagnosis on the Internet is a bad idea; and a...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Antonio Damasio: Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

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The study of the evolution of emotions dates back to the 19th century. Charles Darwin famously applied the theory of evolution and natural s...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

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In "New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!" for The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote this about the new Timothy Ferriss book, The 4...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

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From Publishers Weekly: Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout wi...

Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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In January 2011, Jessica Bennett wrote “The promise of technology is connectedness. But could modern gadgetry be making us lonelier than eve...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Gary Taubes: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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In "Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?", Gary Taubes wrote this, for the New York Times: Once upon a time, women took estrog...

Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Ability to Heal Itself

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In a year-end review of bestselling health related books, the Med Page Today website published a list of the top titles. Among them, "C...

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

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In March 2010, The Boston Globe mentioned the book, "The China Study," this way: Eric Faulkner, a professional in high tech, is ba...

Michael Pollan: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

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Austin 360 recently wrote: In his most recent book, "Food Rules," Pollan doles out 64 guidelines that are as easy to remember as h...
Monday, December 20, 2010

New Horizons: David Freedman from New Horizons in Education

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Bob Kustra interviews David Freedman about his book, "Wrong" about why experts get it wrong and how to discern when their advice ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

When Depression Kills from Fox News by Dr. Keith Ablow

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Hegel’s tragic story may, as much as anyone’s, demonstrate the fine line between psychiatric disorders and violent behavior. We don’t know w...