This past June, I used several blog posts to talk about how researchers measure the healthiness of a meal pattern. I discussed the Healt...
Overweight and Military Service
I am certain that soda has a lot to do with this problem, as does the increasing portion size and energy density of foods at home and restau...
Soda and Obesity
I should change that title to sugar sweetened beverages and obesity. Soda that does not contain calories is not driving the obesity ep...
Fit and Active (fit facts) The Right Front of Pack system?
One of my classmates was eating a snack the other day and the package caught my attention. I noticed that it had a front of pack label a...
NonDairy - Good Fat - No Sugar - Low Calories
In my blog, I am more likely to make food 'group' recommendations than product recommendations - my most well known product rec b...
Kohls - Good for the Environment?
Kohls deserves a kudos for its efforts to go paperless. I don't think that their decision is entirely altruistic as there are sever...
When Fear Makes Us Fat
In the past week, the Rudd Center released a report on the affects of childhood anti obesity campaigns including the one that is running ...
EU Reccomendations on HPV Vaccines
Cervical cancer is most commonly, if not entirely, caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Forty of the 100 strains are transmitted thr...
Your Doctor's Food Environment
My research and public health interest is in changing the food environment in order to support diet quality. Our diets will improve if w...
Do Menu Labels Matter?
I am certain that you have heard the news that starting next week all of McDonald's indoor and drive through menu boards will show ca...
Visit of our dear friends: "INDIAN GIRLS" from Castellon,Spain at Hauz Khas village
Thank you for your visit. Children enjoyed your company :)
Plate or Pill? Fish Oil Revisited.
I feel a personal responsibility to respond on the results from the omega 3 fatty acids study that is published this week in the peer rev...
A Billion Dollar Disease
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Cris Frangold. Cris pronounces a love for investing and writing about it. I would consider him ...
Let's Make Prevention the Priority
At the end of August, the World Cancer Congress 2012 was held in Canada. The congress is a meeting of professionals - research and pract...
Corn is for Cows and other secrets from Italy
I stopped eating canned corn and corn on the cob along with peas and potatoes sometime early in the 2000s. I made this decision because ...
Diet Quality Not Based on Organic
I have written for at least three years that science does not support a health benefit from organic foods or one that are labeled as all ...
Safe Doses Depend on Exposure Frequency
Today I am going to share a document that was created by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. I have been holding on to it fo...
Did we become overweight on purpose?
In the September 2012 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Mary T Bassett, MD MPH, discusses the role of government in "l...
Thanks to Lenny and her friend!
Thank you our volunteer LENNY MATHEW for donating a part of her first salary. Also thanking her young professional friend NIKHIL MUKESH VARS...
A big thanks to Lakshmi and her friends!
Thank you Lakshmi Devan, our volunteer, for her donation towards the Hauz Khas Village Project. Also thanking her young friends for their co...