Opinion
Nutrition and Medical Education
I don’t think we can ignore a serious public relations problem that hangs like a cloud over the nutrition advocacy community. It is the same one...
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Obesity: A Social Vulnerability
If we’re going to continue calling it a disease, we have done a pretty sloppy job of creating diagnostic criteria.
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Preventing Pediatric Migraine
After listening to scores of families tell their migraine stories, it became apparent to me that there was often a pattern.
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Nonalcoholic Beer and Underage Drinking
If there is little evidence that nonalcoholic beer is a gateway drug, should we continue to prohibit its sale to minors?
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The Patient Encounter Is Changing
It is fair to say that a live face-to-face encounter remains the gold standard in the opinions of both patients and providers.
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Burnout and Vacations
At the root of my vacation style was an egotistical delusion that there weren’t any clinicians in the community who could look after my patients...
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Playing the ‘Doctor’ Card: A Lesson in Three Hypotheticals
Dr. Wilkoff presents three hypothetical situations in which the doctor is the patient.
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Baby-Led Weaning
If parents become “dietary contortionists” to satisfy their children’s preferences, there is a problem.
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Long COVID and Blame Hunting
“Even to a non-statistician like myself there appear to be some problems with this study.”
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Being An Outsider
Studies suggest that being out in nature can reduce stress, anxiety, and aggression, and improve working memory and attention.
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Technoference
Numerous studies suggest an association between parental technoference and mental health difficulties in children.
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E-Bikes: The Good ... and the Ugly
With the increase in e-bike popularity, there has been an understandable increase in injuries in all age groups.
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Doctor I-Don’t-Know
If more physicians learned to say “I don’t know” early in their careers, the quality of care we are delivering as a profession will improve, as...
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The Mysterious Latch
Even under optimal conditions, not every woman and/or child can successfully breastfeed.