A heartening NPR story that reports on a study in the current New England Journal of Medicine: Maricle had difficulty walking upstairs, downstairs, to the car or down the street. So it’s no wonder that, when she heard about a new study at the nearby Oregon Research Institute to look at the potential benefits of [...]
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Tai Chi May Help Parkinson’s Patients Regain Balance
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 |
U.S. Military Implements First Nutrition Upgrade in 20 Years
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2012 |
Whenever there’s a meaningful, health-affirming decision made by any group in the public or private sector, it deserves to be celebrated. From an Associated Press wire story in today’s Washington Post: WASHINGTON — Hold the mystery meat: Military bases will soon be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years [...]
Australian Universities Defend CAM Programs
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2012 |
Last week, efforts by some Australian scientists to pressure universities in that nation to eliminate complementary and alternative programs garnered wide press attention. Some Australian universities offer degree programs in chiropractic, osteopathy and acupuncture and Oriental medicine. In today’s New York Times, the first story I’ve seen wherethe universities reply: Macquarie University, which is in [...]
Lose Weight by Eating Less
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2012 |
Not exactly a major surprise, as noted here by Marion Nestle in her Food Politics blog. A new diet study just out from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition went to a lot of trouble to prove the obvious. When it comes to weight loss, how much you eat matters more than the proportion of [...]
Music Training Affects Aging Process
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
I come from a family where music was a major part of our lives from Day 1, so this was a pleasure for me to read. Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first [...]
The Affordable Care Act and Beyond: A Stakeholder Conference
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 |
A report that I co-authored has just been released by the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium. From my end, this was a labor of love, done in concert with people whose vision and talents I greatly respect. Here’s the story, as described by John Weeks in a new article at the Huffington Post. Integrative health care [...]
Drug Research Routinely Suppressed
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2012 |
This article explains the new British Medical Journal study demonstrating the extent to which drug companies are able to suppress negative studies about their products, while allowing positive studies to be published. Shockingly and illegally, this even includes federally funded research. Drug research, even from clinical trials sponsored by the federal government, routinely is suppressed, [...]
U.S. Meat Consumption Down 12% Since 2007
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2012 |
A healthy trend, which needs more rather than less assistance from federal health agencies and the USDA. It’s easy enough to round up the usual suspects, which is what a story in the Daily Livestock Report did last month. It blames the decline on growing exports, which make less meat available for Americans to buy. It [...]
For Neck Pain, Chiropractic and Exercise are Better Than Drugs
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2012 |
From yesterday’s New York Times: Seeing a chiropractor or engaging in light exercise relieves neck pain more effectively than relying on pain medication, new research shows. The new study is one of the few head-to-head comparisons of various treatments for neck pain, a problem that affects three quarters of Americans at some point in their [...]
Mindfulness Eases Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2011 |
This story adds to a steadily growing body of research on the health benefits of mindfulness based stress reduction. An intervention aimed at helping patients accept the pain and disability associated with rheumatoid arthritis, while at the same time blocking negative thoughts and anxiety about their condition, reduced patients’ depression and improved coping skills, researchers [...]
