Making It Local At some point over the past several years I got lazy. In residency, which was the second busiest time in my life, most of my food was acquired from local markets, local farmers, and the amazing Reading…
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The son of an English merchant and, himself a surgeon, James Lind must have wondered how he ended up being tossed around on the HMS Salisbury just off the coast of France. After entering his medical apprenticeship in 1731, Lind…
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Working with our Hands and Acquiring Some Skills I was unemployed for the latter half of this month, as I stopped working in mid-July. I spent the past two weeks reading books, working out, and spending the bulk of my time…
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In James Suzman’s book Affluence without Abundance, he chronicles the history and ultimate decline of the world’s modern hunter gatherers due to western expansion into Africa. Suzman is apt to write this depiction, as he has been spending significant time…
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Key Points: The Women’s Health Initiative was a massive effort to test and assess an array of lifestyle recommendations in women. A major goal was to assess the effect of a low-fat, high fruit and vegetable, and high grain diet…
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In March of this year, my grandfather would be turning 102. Born in 1917, he passed away just shy of his 97th birthday, after a long and fascinating life. Remarkably, in 1917 the average life expectancy for men was 48 years….
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In 2013, a scientific report on fat and cancer baffled scientists and physicians. A usual, the nightly news had a field day with the findings. A massive analysis of all available studies assessing weight status and survival revealed that being…
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The sun poked through my bedroom window for nearly two hours by this point, filling the room with light, and supplying my reading light. I was enjoying my favorite single batch, shade-grown coffee from the Dominican Republic. As usual, it…
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Leonardo had spent all afternoon picking ripe olives from the hillside overlooking San Lorenzo Bellizzi along the northern border of Calabria. He now found himself helping his father loading the freshly picked fruit below his stone mill grinding wheel, crushing…
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It has been over ten years now. It was a difficult decision at first and all I wanted to do was get more as soon as I stopped. I found myself talking about it incessantly with other addicts at work…
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