After my newsletter last month discussing Eudaimonia, an insightful reader who always asks interesting questions and is also teaching a university class on “Economics and Life,” posed the question “Is happiness the primary goal of a good life?” Or i…
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Digging deeper and deeper into my clinical work as an oncologist and research in nutrition and exercise, the impact on our health of those factors totally unrelated to nutrition and exercise has become incredibly obvious to me. In fact, in…
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I used to periodically meet with a friend in Pittsburgh who ran a nonprofit that pushed to help improve the health of our population. She was one of the earlier people to promote eating real foods, not limiting fat, and…
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Well, it is official – there are an insurmountable number of forces trying to wreck our health, dissuade us from living a healthy lifestyle, distract us from activities that are beneficial to us, and spoon-feed us magic to make up…
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In 1933 Fiorella La Guardia was elected mayor of New York, declaring “È finita la cuccagna!” Loosely translated as “no more free lunch,” La Guardia may have been referring specifically to the corruption plaguing the Big Apple. Yet, this was…
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When I started my undergraduate studies at MIT, all incoming freshman were thrown into temporary housing while they decided where they wanted to live for the next four years. During this process, known as “rush,” fraternities would put on several…
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One thing that the madness of the last year has shown us again and again is the importance of our own domain – our family, our friends, and our homes. Through crazy neighbors with political signs and virtue signaling, then…
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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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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain Being Real to Ourselves for Our Health Nothing could be worse for us than not doing what we say. It creates an inner discomfort, and not…
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The news tells us of constant murders, car crashes, covid deaths, terrorism, you name it. Yet, statistics tell us something entirely different – the biggest threat is us. Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, alcoholism, and many other major threats to our…
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