by David Gumpert | May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I was watching the national news last evening, doing my usual switching among the network programs hoping to catch news on one while advertising was showing on another. Of course, they have it timed so their ads all run at precisely the same times, so I couldn’t...
by David Gumpert | May 6, 2006 | Uncategorized |
It’s always an accomplishment, as a writer, to crack a new or different kind of publication. In my case, I never expected to get anything into a medical publication, so I’m feeling good about having a letter to the editor in the most recent issue of Family...
by David Gumpert | May 4, 2006 | Uncategorized |
America has the best health care in the world, we are often told. Yet now there is a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association comparing Americans and British and, lo and behold, "the US population in late middle age is less healthy than...
by David Gumpert | Apr 28, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Some further thoughts related to health from my just-completed ten-day trip to Thailand. I discovered after ten days of eating Thai food, and lots of it, that my weight hadn’t changed at all. How can that be? The only explanation I can come up with is this: Thai...
by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I have been traveling in Thailand this week and one of the things that has stood out to me is how few people are obese. It’s easy to see why, since the diet, even when eating in restaurants a lot, doesn’t include a lot of sugar or starch (beyond rice). The...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Two things especially struck me about researching my latest BusinessWeek.com column, about Big Pharma’s bullying of small pharmacies to control the market for women’s hormones: 1. Maybe it’s because I’m a man, but I never had any idea so many...
by David Gumpert | Apr 13, 2006 | Uncategorized |
When reporters try to be philosophical about lifestyle, the result is usually something like what was contained in last Sunday’s New York Times (Critic’s Notebook: Be Merry, Not Ancient), to wit: "If living to 99 means forever cutting the...
by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I’ve posted an update to my account of March 20, 2006, about the death of Veronica Glaubach a few hours after she gave birth to a daughter. (Scroll to the March 20 posting, using "Next Page" at the bottom of this page, to view the update.)...
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