Public Health

Vegan Diets Works Better For Weight Loss Than Vegetarian Or Atkins

A vegan diet remains controversial because it is in defiance of our evolutionary mandate- it is unnatural in humans to only eat meat the same way it is in cats. But diets are popular for lots of reasons that defy scientific explanation and regardless of th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2015 - 2:47pm

Obese Teens Are Less Likely To Use Contraception

A study of nearly 1,000 teens found that sexually active obese adolescents were significantly less likely to use contraception than normal weight peers, putting them at higher risk of unintended pregnancy. Obese adolescents who did use contraception were ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2015 - 6:42pm

Sepsis Is Largely Unknown But It Puts One Million People In The Hospital Each Year

Most Americans have never heard of it, but according to new federal data, sepsis is the most expensive cause of hospitalization in the US. ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 1 2015 - 2:30pm

True Weight Loss Is Rare

When you are a weight loss doctor, your friends and colleagues cannot help but comment on your work. Many conversations contain the question, "Isn't it all just....(carbs, laziness, fast food, inactivity, genes, fructose- fill in speculation here ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:48pm

Is Lack Of Education As Deadly As Smoking?

After examining decades of data, researchers from the University of Colorado Denver have found that a lack of education may be as deadly as smoking. The study, which included researchers from New York University and the University of North Carolina at Cha ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2015 - 8:02am

The Carbohydrate Hypothesis

Any discussion of carbohydrates in the diet must deal with the Atkins conception of weight loss, because it is so commonly used and it rests in the middle of the debate about the causes of weight gain. Anyone trying to figure out why we've become obes ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:49pm

Kids May Need More Vitamin D

Currently recommended daily allowances of vitamin D may be insufficient in children, according to researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Vitamin D is present in a few foods, milk is us ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 9:02am

The Protein Leverage Hypothesis

Protein trumps carbohydrate and fat as the regulated parameter driving human food consumption: Kevin Hall and Carson Chow published their estimation (in 2010) that the rise of obesity prevalence in the U.S. since the 1970s can be attributed to an increase ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:52pm

Heart Disease Begins In Childhood

Are the first signs that someone is at risk of developing cardiovascular disease detectable in toddlers and preschoolers? There's evidence that low vitamin D levels in adults are linked to cardiovascular disease, as well as other health issues such a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2015 - 8:00am

Bernie Sanders Vs. Gilead And The Constitution

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution (1787)  "[T] he Congress shall have power... to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective wr ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Jul 17 2015 - 7:34am