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The growth is growing

This is interesting, and not really in a good way. Although the latest figures shown here (2011) are down from their peak about ten years earlier, they still show an increase in the average American’s diet of more than 750 calories every single day compared with the base number (1961). Comparing the 1961 average to the 2011 average represents almost …

Issue #1! 2016 is official now!

The New Year wasn’t really the New Year until today. What’s different about today? The online edition of the Medical Examiner has arrived, chock full o’ salubrious reading, including the debut of our newest feature, The Advice Doctor. Check it out (all 16 glorious pages).

Music Therapy

We were going to cancel today’s session, but some of our patients would be in a world of hurt if they went two weeks without music therapy. This week the dosage is particularly potent, being an amalgamation (in other words, a mashup) of lots of big tunes from the entire year, all in just 5 minutes and change. Sit back …

PSA of the Week

Not that McDonald’s is the great satan or anything, but come on. You’re not a kid anymore. You can do better.

I Love Monday

I love honesty. It’s a great concept, and in nearly every situation too. (There are exceptions, such as the does-this-dress-make-me-look-fat exception.) A great place for honesty is in nutrition and health. Look at these cupcakes. They are honest. They fairly scream words like sugary-sweet, fattening, guilty pleasure, artery-clogging, Red Dye #2 – and delicious. They aren’t fake. You’ve got to …

NATIONAL DONUT DAY!

What’s the appropriate way to celebrate? Eat one of these: – All credit to Keith Jones

Today’s PSA

FOOD FIGHT: I saw this video yesterday, then woke up today to news of a shooting near the Kroc Center. As this amazing video would put it, burgers are killin’ more brothers than bullets. But bullets get the headlines. This is such a significant issue, illuminated by this video very creatively. It just gets better and better as it rolls …

PSA of the Week

A very healthful message – salubrious, even – and a nice song by Jason Mraz to accompany the information. Remember: Koala bears may be cute and cuddly, but Cola bears are after your money, your teeth, your very health and well-being. For more information, scroll down to the Dec. 21 issue of the Medical Examiner (“Brain Eaters”) and click over …