Enviroblog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A recent New York Times column on sunscreen has been getting a lot of traction on the internet, and since it's partly about, um, us, we thought it was worth a response. In the column, author Tara Parker Pope quotes...
Parenting Solved (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I just read Tara Parker Pope’s New York Times piece (Sunday July 13, 2008) on the American Academy of Pediatrics cholesterol position and I’m disappointed. Without so much as a shred of evidence, Ms. Pope suggests a link between the...
SportsGeezer (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The most encouraging news in this interesting piece by Tara Parker-Pope is that the long-secret nuclear research center in Dimona, Israel has been put to its best use yet: the desert facility was the site of a recent research project...
Michael R. Eades, M.D. (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A study published in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates once again that the low-carbohydrate diet is better than the low-fat diet in bringing about both weight loss and an improvement in lipid profiles. This study, as published, is not without its flaws, which we will get to in [...]
HEALTH'Sass (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
….Our pal Tara Parker-Pope, late of the Wall Street Journal, and now with the health blogger-in-chief job at the New York Times, loves obesity—as a subject. Almost daily, you can get in a rumble over there! …Check this out… http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/should-doctors-lecture-patients-about-their-weight/ …Should doctors lecture their patients about weight? In this particular episode of...
Nudge blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
From Tara Parker-Pope’s blog: It’s long been known that people claim to eat far less than they really do. Some studies suggest people underreport their caloric intake by 30 percent or more. But when it comes to fruits and vegetables, it appears people lie in the other direction — vowing that they consume far more than [...]
GoozNews (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The American Academy of Pediatricians provoked an instantaneous backlash yesterday after releasing new guidelines calling for screening kids for high cholesterol and prescribing statin drugs if diet and exercise interventions don't work. The New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope was forced...
Musings of a Distractible Mind (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I went to the Indy 500 on my first wedding anniversary. Neither I nor my wife were racing fans, but we got free tickets and went. There are a number of traditions at that race, one of which is for Jim Nabors (an Indiana Native) to sing “Back Home Again in Indiana.” What’s the point? [...]
Shapely Prose (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
So, we haven’t touched Wall-E around here so far because others have handled it ably, Pixar-loving* trolls are a pain in the ass, and as far as I know, none of us have seen it. But I’ve got to send some love out to Daniel Engber for this Slate article on exactly why the “easy [...]
Eating Fabulous (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Check out Tara Parker-Pope’s article on NY Times Health highlighting 11 foods you should be eating, according to Dr. Bowden, author of the book, The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: Beets Cabbage Swiss Chard Cinnamon Pomegranate Juice Dried Plums Pumpkin Seeds Sardines Turmeric Frozen Blueberries Canned Pumpkin I’ve covered most of them here at Eating Fabulous, and if you want scientific studies backing...
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Diabetes is worse than some people seem to think (so watch your weight, eat well, and exercise: prevention is worth sixteen times a cure). Tara Parker-Pope writes in the NY Times: In a set of recent focus groups, participants were asked to rank the severity of various health problems, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. On a [...]
The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Fun list. I'm on board with most. But I refuse to touch the sardines. The 11 Best Foods You Arent Eating - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog: "Nutritionist and author Jonny... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SportsGeezer (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Geezer takes his hat off to Tara Parker-Pope for one of the most helpful and hopeful pieces yet on choosing the best the treatment for prostate cancer. And a tough choice it is, because the correct answer looks a lot...
The Jew and the Carrot (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The NY Times Dining Section reported today about the havoc that summer camp food can wreak on kids’ health. Tara Parker-Pope wrote: “[My 9-year old daughter’s] camp is typical of those around the country: days packed with archery, swimming and adventure climbing; menus packed with soft drinks, burgers, chicken nuggets and, once a week, cheese [...]
Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
other topics: click a “category” or use search box This is Tara Parker Pope’s article in the NY Times About 2.5 million children in the United States take stimulant drugs for attention and hyperactivity problems. But concerns about side effects have prompted many parents to look elsewhere: as many as two-thirds of children with attention deficit hyperactivity [...]
