It took Covid-19—and a brush with death—to turn Boris Johnson into one of the world’s foremost anti-obesity advocates.
Johnson, the Prime Minister…
Category: Health
There’s no question that the entire world is suffering from related twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity, but there is still much debate over…
In recommending blood sugar testing and control for all COVID-19 patients, a recent study was yet another to recommend that essentially every…
Potentially big news from Israel: Professor Yaakov Nahmias of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University believes that he may have discovered a breakthrough…
Body Mass Index, the one number that nearly everyone uses to categorize overweight and obesity, is pretty much garbage.
This isn’t actually controversial…
One of the unforeseen lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how vulnerable our poor metabolic health makes us. Even from the early days in Wuhan…
Does diabetes technology have a race problem? Are the latest devices least available to those that need them most?
On the second day of the ADA’s…
Yesterday in the 2020 American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions, Dr. Carmel Smart, pediatric diabetes dietician, debated…
“Can we finally transcend these diet wars?”
That poignant question, asked by Dr. Kevin Hall, underlined a fascinating debate on the causes of metabolic…
On June 1, the New York Times published two articles, exploring what we do know and what we don’t know about the coronavirus and the disease that it…