With the decoding of the human genome came the hope of getting a lever on the chronic diseases, which kill most of us today heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many cancers. And since overweight and obesity are a common cause of those diseases, many obese people were, and still a... Read more

Would you have guessed that, one fine day, health insurers will regret the demise of big tobacco and its contribution to health care costs Would you have guessed that, when that day arrives, health insurers would also learn to love other frowned-upon-vices of their policy holders... Read more

So, what's your excuse for not exercising enough, for smoking, for not watching your diet, for getting fatter every year, and therefore having high blood pressure, and too much glucose and cholesterol in your bloodThat's what the American Heart Association has been telling you fo... Read more

What we think about when we think about disease. Its a safe bet that the number of M.D.s who have made a mid-career switch to journalism is rather small. And when Dr. Ivan Oransky did it, he didnt go in for half measures. The former online editor of Scientific American, and the f... Read more

Yesterday, on a whim, I started searching the web for sites where obese people present themselves and how they deal with obesity. My expectation was I won't find much. Boy was I wrong. In fact I was so wrong, that I decided to discuss some of the outstanding people whose sites I ... Read more