by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 26, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Bobby Knight was one of the most successful college basketball coaches of all time. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 as the coach of college teams that won 902 games and lost 371. At Indiana University from 1971 to 2000, his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 10, 2023 | Diabetes
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator who has Academy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and the Screen Actors Guild...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 14, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
Lisa Marie Presley died from scar tissue from weight loss surgery. She died on January 12, 2023 at the very young age of 54, from intestinal obstruction caused by previous scar tissue from her gastric-bypass weight loss surgery that was supposed to prevent food from...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2023 | Diabetes
About 70 percent of North American adults will suffer from type II diabetes or prediabetes. The most common cause of diabetes is excess fat in the liver, which prevents your body from responding to insulin to cause high blood sugar levels. When you have high blood...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 16, 2023 | Nutrition
The largest and most thorough review to date of research on sweetened drinks found that “fruit” drinks and other sweetened drinks are strongly associated with overweight and obesity (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Jan 2023;117(1):160-174). The...
