My good friend and colleague Therese Waterhous, a PhD, RD eating disorder specialist and board member of the parent organization F.E.A.S.T., called me the other day. She needed to vent,…
You may have heard me say it before: medicine is as prone to fads as the fashion industry. And worse: tightly held “truths” in medicine can be as entrenched as…
Recently a patient of ours returned from a treatment setting where she had been presented with “challenge foods”. In her case she had been given cheetos and soda pop. Now…
I was recently sent an article from which I will be quoting extensively here (it’s also included in this newsletter - ed.). The article is by Heidi Mills, writing for…
Thinking about obesity: calmly, rationally and outside the box When I was a rotating intern at Sacred Heart Medical Center, long ago, I attended rounds with the then head of…
At Kartini Clinic we have been embarking on something we call “weight restoration 2.0”. In other words we are trying to move beyond mere weight restoration (as critical as that…
In previous blogs I have spoken to the importance of bench science -- the kind done in the lab to decode the “basic” science that underlies human physiology -- to…
A recent book by UCSF professor and pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig -- horridly titled Fat Chance -- has turned my mind to past discussions of our program’s dietary recommendations, aka the…
I read an article about an artist/scientist who creates models of perfect strangers from bits of their DNA extracted from hair and bodily detritus left behind, inadvertently, by all of…
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