International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... much you weigh but where you carry your weight that matters most to your health.MultimediaBlog: Tara Parker-Pope on health» In March, an analysis in The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology showed that body mass index is the "poorest" indicator of cardiovascular health, and that waist size is a much better way to determine, for both sexes, who is at a higher risk for hypertension,...
Mythusmage Opines (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Tara Parker-Pope writes about What's Really in That Seat. Not good stuff either. Once more my decision to avoid air travel is confirmed as a good one. It is noted that the anti-social behavior is a sign of rebellion. Small rebellions, and anti airline at that. But it's a start. You treat people like crap and [...]
Feed Me! (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Tara Parker-Pope's blog about DSM , the psychiatric bible, and ties to Big Pharma, hits on a point of particular interest to anyone who's had experience of an eating disorder. The truth is that there are few if any medications that have been shown to help treat an eating disorder, especially in the acute phase of the illness (and isn't that when you want them to help?). Psychotropic meds do not seem...
Jurisdynamics (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
... section of Americans; it found that the vast majority of subjects harbored almost all the toxins. Tara Parker-Pope, Toxic Cats and Dogs [A toxicity] analysis, released by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group, used blood and urine samples from 35 dogs and 37 cats collected at Hanover Animal Hospital in Mechanicsville, Va. The study found high levels of numerous chemicals...
BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
... section of Americans; it found that the vast majority of subjects harbored almost all the toxins. Tara Parker-Pope, Toxic Cats and Dogs [A toxicity] analysis, released by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group, used blood and urine samples from 35 dogs and 37 cats collected at Hanover Animal Hospital in Mechanicsville, Va. The study found high levels of numerous chemicals...
Musings of a Distractible Mind (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
The NY Times health blog (by Tara Parker Pope) ran an article about toxin levels in cats and dogs. The bottom line: our pets are full of toxins. Which, given what my dog and cat eats is not actually that surprising. My cat probably has very high serum bug levels, and my dog is especially [...]
English Webster (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
... to rekindle the romantic love that brought them together in the first place. In an article by Tara Parker-Pope entitled “ Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples ” appearing in the New York Times on February 12, 2008, Parker-Pope argues that “simply spending quality time together is probably not enough to prevent a relationship from getting stale.” “Rather...
Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
In Tara Parker-Pope's Wellness blog for the New York Times, in Feeling Paranoid? You're not Alone, she talks about a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry where people were placed in a "virtual" simulation of the London tube and asked to comment on their surroundings and they looked at how many people had "paranoid" thoughts. A lot did. Parker-Pope writes: The...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
That was the question posed in Melinda Beck's February 12, 2008 "Health Mailbox" column in the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Beck — who took over from Tara Parker-Pope, lured across town by the bigger impact factor (and, no doubt, $$$)...
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The ritual of drinking 21 or more alcoholic beverages to celebrate the 21st birthday appears to be far more common than expected, according to new research. The New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope expounds on the dangerous trend and examines the case of one young adult who recently died from binge drinking.
HEALTH'Sass (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
…Grrr, HA is on the warpath. Tara Parker-Pope, on her fun blog at the NYT, has had a week-long thread, which I hope stays up, about whether women face worse discrimination for weight than men do. …The url is: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/fat-bias-worse-for-women/#comment-43674 …More than 200 people (ahem, several way more than once) commented. Some of the comments...
SportsGeezer (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Tara Parker-Pope, writing in her Well column in the New York Times, tells us that moderate exercise may be the perfect cure for exhaustion. Pope cites research conducted at the University of Georgia that put three groups of exhausted volunteers...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
As a professor of computer sciences at , Randy F. Pausch expected students to pay attention to his lectures. He never expected that the rest of the world would listen, too.Tara Parker-Pope blogs about health. Join the discussion. Randy F. Pausch on a monorail with his son, Dylan, and father, Fred, who died in 2006. But today, more than 10 million people have tuned into Dr. Pausch’s...
Shapely Prose (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Over at the NYT’s “Well” blog, Tara Parker-Pope shares a new study on fat kids that has “surprising” findings: they get fewer cavities than normal weight kids! Raise your hand if you’re as surprised as she is. No? Me neither. I mean, actually, I’m a little surprised that the results weren’t just even. (Are thin people not [...]
HR Web Cafe (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
... . The latter are in a “notice-and-comment” stage of an open rulemaking process. Bullying - Tara-Parker Pope of the New York Times Well blog discusses a recent research study which suggests that workplace bullying may be tougher on employees than harassment : "The researchers found that workplace aggression had severe consequences on employee well-being. Compared to employees...
