This week's few odds and ends are more reflections on headlines then mini reports. You know that my passion for this blog site is to re...
Directions in Childhood Obesity Prevention
In regard to childhood obesity prevention programs that I have spent the better of two weeks reviewing, I have chosen the CATCH one to promo...
Informed Drinking
This may be my only post this week (ACK!) but I cannot let it get away from me, as I am apparently about a year behind already. There is a c...
Odds and Ends
Vitaminwater - Never a fan myself - high in calories which are empty ones, no matter what essence they add to it. And face it, it is a sugar...
Exercise Recommendation
I became a subscriber and relative fan of Netflix more out of frustration and desperation than choice. Those of you who were reading the bl...
Price is EVERYthing
Friends - You may have noticed - I am swamped :) But I heard and saw this fantastic news that has everything to do with my passion for obesi...
Take The Kleenex
This afternoon I was in the campus library and stopped in the restroom. On the sink counter were two packages from an apartment community -...
Move More - Sit Less - It MATTERS
Healy, G. N., Matthews, C. E., Dunstan, D. W., Winkler, E. A. H., & Owen, N. Sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in US adults...
Odds and Ends
Eric Schneiderman - Have you heard this name? He is the new Attorney General of NY and he is concerned about the environment and has a pre...
Why Labels Are Needed
In my continuing quest to promote and instigate Informed Eating, I share a grocery story with you. This is not my story alone. A friend sha...
Getting Our Attention
This past week I completed an online training program (12 modules) on Environmental Public Health Tracking. It was very interesting and I am...
ECT - Shock Therapy - Proof of Safety?
Electroconvulsive Therapy or ECT or Shock Treatment has been used to treat mental illness at least since the 1940s though the concept of sho...
A USA Size Gut to Follow
It is not only tobacco companies that target Asia for increased market share - profit - globalization - but the fast food bellwethers as wel...
When in Scotland
When in Scotland, we might follow the advice we hear on their radio stations. I have never been to Scotland. My father's family tree d...
Exacerbaters
According to Merriam-Webster - to exacerbate is to make more violent, bitter or severe. Something I saw as I was logging off last night and ...
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS IN HAUZ KHAS VILLAGE
‘Feeling India ’ Lends a Helping Hand to FHE – contributes winter clothes for the children The girls were provided with warm clothes in Dec...
Odds and Ends
McDonalds - two things here. The first is related to the use of branding and marketing by fast food companies, especially McDonalds. With ...
All Seriousness Aside
My brother-n-law (a regular reader) passed along an email that pokes fun at some of the very things I have rang bells and sounded alarms on ...
Sexual Assault Protocol in Philadelphia
Below is the City of Philadelphia's Sexual Assault Complaint Form for those interested in checking it out. The actual document is 10 pag...
30 dollars gets you 2 Grand
My classes start in less than a week and could prove quite challenging – Hence, today I take a break from heady research and talk about the ...
More than 20% Wrong
A study that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association recently made the popular press yesterday. It is a review of...
Resources from Sex and Gender Health Disparities IM Grand Rounds Jan 5, 2011
Hi, Thanks for joining me at Grand Rounds. As promised here's the resource listing I mentioned. I've listed the 'what can I use ...