Diet Pepsi: According to my past review of sodas, I have not yet covered the important topic of Diet Pepsi.  What a shocking oversight!  Anyway, I am taking a sip of it right now.  …Hmm.  It tastes pretty much like Diet Coke.  So, in other words, like sugar-water mixed with crushed-up aspirin, except it’s slightly sweeter than...

Ever since Galen, the Roman physician, people have trusted their health to doctors- and doctors, at least in the last century and a half, have often deserved such trust.  In antiquity it was common for  medicine and food to be variants of the same ingredient – certain spices or roots might flavor a stew, and mitigate the symptoms...

Everybody knows that if you want to see what’s in the food you buy in the grocery store, all you have to do is check the ingredients list. All foods are required to list all their ingredients, ranked by prevalence, somewhere on the label. Therefore, if you want to get a rough sense of how much high fructose corn syrup is in...

A few weeks ago, I woke up at 3 a.m. with excruciating chest, arm, neck, and back pain.  It was the kind of pain that resembled everything I’d ever read or heard about the pain which precedes a heart attack. I don’t know what the typical response is for a man who senses that he’s experiencing a cardiac emergency, but...

credit: © RD / Kabik / Retna Digital Oh, Dr. Oz, what has happened that you are adding to the myths of diabetes? For you to say, “Type 1 is also called juvenile diabetes and you are born with it” here on the HuffPost? Type 1 has not been called juvenile diabetes for years, says pediatric endocrinologist Francine Kaufman...

People who drink more soft drinks are more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, claims a new study from Singapore.  The researchers followed about 60,000 people for around a decade, and found that those who consumed more soft drinks–around 5 drinks per week–were 85 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than those...

Bridget McNulty is a South African writer and journalist, and a Type 1 diabetic. Her first novel, Strange Nervous Laughter, was published in South Africa in 2007 and released in the USA in May 2009. She has written articles for a number of South African magazines, including ELLE, Real Simple, the Oprah magazine, Psychologies and Woman...

My friend Betsy and I weren’t looking for redemption — we’re grownups who work hard to make the world better than we found it, take both vitamins and good advice, and are not given to debauchery — and yet we found it. At a restaurant. Grezzo, a warm and intimate place in Boston’s foodie and famous North...

Kris Freeman is the reigning US National cross-country ski champion, currently competing as a part of the US Ski Team in the 2010 Olympic Games .  Kris was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2000, before his first Winter Olympics in 2002. He also competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. What sets Kris apart from others with type 1 diabetes...

Dr. Barry Koffler is an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta, Georgia (and he is also our uncle).  He has been practicing medicine for over thirty years, and does volunteer medical work in Central America.  A few weeks ago, horrified by the devastation in Haiti, he left everything and went to help.  It wasn’t easy to get there, but  he...