The Great Food Divide

by | Apr 4, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

There’s lots of talk in the U.S. about the digital divide, the gap between the computer haves and have-nots. But I wonder if there isn’t a more serious divide–the gap between people with and without access to healthy food. Because I live close to...

“I’m Not an Alternative Medicine Doctor”

by | Apr 3, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I was at Kripalu, the yoga center in Lenox, MA,  over this past weekend, a place I try to visit once or twice a year. I did a lot of yoga, but a major theme running through the weekend was health care. On Saturday evening, physician Mark Hyman, the author of...

Dr. Weil Means Well

by | Mar 28, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Though I believe Dr. Andrew Weil made a major strategic error in deciding to "go commercial"–that is, endorse products and put out his own line of nutritional supplements, per my new column on BusinessWeek.com–I continue to admire him for...

Idealistic Doctors

by | Mar 23, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I know the heading sounds like a contradiction in terms. When was the last time you met with a doctor who struck you as idealistic? Yet that’s the tag I feel like applying to Peter Salgo, a physician who wrote an op-ed in today’s New York Times, "The...

Another Day, Another Vitamin Trashed

by | Mar 14, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Today, it is Vitamin B. The New York Times has an advance summary about research to be published in the Journal of the AMA concluding that vitamins B6 and B12 don’t prevent heart attacks in individuals with serious heart disease. The doctors quoted in the...