Welcome to Weekly Health Update KIDS, VEGETABLES, DIET, AND REWARDS My now 10 year-old daughter used to eat almost everything that we put in front of her when she was a toddler. Lately, however, she has decided that all she wants to eat is macaroni and cheese or mashed potatoes. ... Read more

Welcome to Weekly Health Update MEAT CONSUMPTION AND COLORECTAL CANCER RISK As I discuss in my bestselling evidence-based book, A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race, our dietary habits have an enormous impact on our risk of developing cancer, and particularly cancers of t... Read more

There is a new study reported in Bloomberg this morning that Sanofis Lantus Doubled Cancer Risk in Study of Diabetics. The study, which was presented yesterday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium retrospecitvely evaluated medical records of 23,266 patients in southern Swed... Read more

Welcome to Weekly Health Update New research suggests that the over-the-counter drug orlistat can significantly improve weight loss when combined with a low-fat diet. ORLISTAT ALLI or XENICAL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES OBESITY Approximately two-thirds of the population in the United S... Read more

Welcome to Weekly Health Update A new clinical study has found that our level of empathy and compassion may be determined by the oxytocin receptor gene, and that even strangers can detect which version of this gene we possess. OXYTOCIN GENE VARIATIONS MAY DETERMINE KINDNESS A fas... Read more