David Katz
Forbes
New Haven, CT, United States
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Directions To Weight Loss? Don't Ask Your Genes
An important new study suggests genetic customizing of diet for weight loss is not ready for prime time. But that's OK because we already know how to get there from here. → Read More
Is Trump In 'Excellent' Health? Only By American Standards
The pronouncement that Trump has 'excellent' health begs the question: excellent compared to what? In the U.S., the bar is set low. → Read More
Toasting 2017 Goodbye With Ketogenic Kool-Aid
I cannot profess to know why ketogenic diets are the flavor of the week, other than the fact that there is always is one of those- ever in the interest o... → Read More
The Give And Take Of Christmas, And The Case For #MeNeither
Christmas in the modern era has something in common with singer Miley Cyrus; they both come in rather like a wrecking ball. The bizarre amalgam of b... → Read More
Diet, As A Matter Of Taste
Some years ago, I found myself at a corporate meeting of Kraft. I don’t recall exactly how or why I wound up on that guest list, but I recall that t... → Read More
This Week, What About Cheese?
Blessed, so Monty Python tells us, are the cheese makers. They go on to clarify that this particular Messianic assertion in the Life of Brian is all... → Read More
Companies Love Misery?
An article just published in the New England Journal of Medicine predicts the future prevalence of obesity among adults in the United States based on the... → Read More
Time To Save The World
More than 15,000 scientists from nearly 200 countries have signed their support for a scientific publication reminding humanity that we are soiling our n... → Read More
A Toast To Your Health?
The focus on nutrition in our popular culture is, alas, incredibly simple-minded. For decades, we have listed as a culture from adding oat bran to c... → Read More
Outrageous Fortune: The Probability Of Prevention
For those who knew and loved Dr. Ather Ali, the first naturopathic physician ever to join the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine- and I proudly count... → Read More
Personalizing Medicine, Past Reductionism
Personalizing medicine is among the salient themes of modern advance, and clearly among the more widely captivating. President Obama emphasized “pre... → Read More
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Strokes Of Unkind Fate
A crisis, it has been said, is a dangerous opportunity. One presumes that crises vary with regard to both. Some, no doubt, are more dangerous while ... → Read More
Ode To The Bulletproof
I am a specialist in “preventive” medicine. My career has been all about leveraging the many means at our disposal to add years to lives and life to... → Read More
Science And Sense In A Post-Truth World: How Do We Know?
In my work and my world, I am dealing routinely with whiplash-inducing headlines about health, and nutrition in particular (“no, wait, fruits and vegetab... → Read More
Zip Codes Of Medical Destiny
The health choices any of us makes are ineluctably subordinate to the choices we have -- and we simply don’t all have the same choices. → Read More
Diet And Climate: A VERY Short Q&A
What really matters about diet and climate, both as independent priorities and at their vital intersection, is not the wild conspiracy theories and whipl... → Read More
The Stakes In Selecting The Proper Diets For Ourselves Are Extremely High
Our choice to follow a predominately meat diet or a predominately plant diet is not without consequence. → Read More
Diet And Health: Puzzling Past Paradox To PURE Understanding
Imagine a new study, published, one presumes in Road & Track, or Car and Driver, purporting to show that square wheels outperform round wheels. ... → Read More
Lifestyle As Medicine: Of Research, RxESPECT, And Silver Spoons
Among the predominant themes of modern medicine is a consistent emphasis on high standards of evidence. For purposes of this column, we may forgo co... → Read More