by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2020 | Nutrition
Probiotics are foods or supplements containing healthful bacteria that pass to your colon when you eat them. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that close to four million adults in the United States use probiotics for weight loss,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Eva Szekely was brought up in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s. Six million Jews were killed during the holocaust in Europe, including 70 percent of the Jewish population in Hungary. When she was 17, in the winter of 1944, members of Hungary’s fascist...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 8, 2020 | Nutrition
Two highly-respected Harvard professors, Dr. Walter C. Willett and Dr. David S. Ludwig, think that North Americans don’t need to drink milk (N Engl J Med, Feb 13, 2020; 382:644-654). An earlier comprehensive review of the world’s literature came to the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 3, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
At the turn of the 20th century, cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor became the first African-American sports hero. That was 10 years before Jackie Robinson was even born and 50 years before he broke the color barrier in major-league baseball. Jack Johnson...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 2, 2020 | Nutrition
If you are trying to control your weight, you should not skip breakfast because the food that you eat in the morning causes you to burn more than two and a half times as many calories as the food you eat at night (J End and Metab, March 2020;105(3):dgz311). The...
