by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 14, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Charley Pride was the first Black superstar of country music. He grew up in abject poverty and wanted to be a professional baseball player. He had the talent, but an elbow injury at age 24 cut short his baseball pitching career. To make enough money to feed his...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 12, 2020 | Nutrition
A vegan diet with no added fats caused 117 obese people, average age 54, to lose 13 pounds over 16 weeks (JAMA Netw Open, Nov 30, 2020;3(11):e2025454). They decreased their risk of becoming diabetic by: • increasing the rate that they burned calories by more than 14...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 12, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Are you concerned about getting one of the new COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they are approved? We have no long-term safety information because no one has more than 10 months of experience with this disease. However, we do have decades of experience with other...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2020 | Nutrition
At one time I followed a vegan diet and ate no animal products at all, primarily based on data that associated eating mammal meat and processed meats with increased risk for diabetes, heart attacks, certain cancers and premature death. However, a couple years ago I...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 7, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Rafer Johnson was one of America’s greatest athletes. He was the world record holder and 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in the 1956 Olympics and also gold in the 1955 Pan American Games. He was the star of his Kingsburg High...
