by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 3, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
There are no pills or capsules that you can take to prevent the sun from damaging your skin. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to several companies illegally marketing and selling pills claiming to prevent skin damage from sunlight. The...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 3, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
The noted novelist Philip Roth has died at age 85 of heart failure, even though he had changed many of his lifestyle risk factors that caused him to suffer a heart attack at the very young age of 56, which required bypass surgery of all five arteries leading to his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 27, 2018 | Nutrition
The gigantic food industry in North America and its lobbyists are happy with the concept that most people are fat just because they eat too many calories. This message relieves them of their responsibility for harm from the typical western diet that consists largely...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 27, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Browning Ross was truly the father of road racing in America. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field teams in 1948 and 1952, and Pan American Games 1500 meter (metric mile) champion in 1951. He won many hundreds of long distance races through the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 20, 2018 | Fitness
A review of 17 studies, covering almost 200,000 people, found that men who work at the most physically active jobs have an 18 percent higher risk of premature death compared to people with less physically-demanding jobs (British J of Sports Medicine, May 14, 2018)....
