by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2023 | Heart Health
At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (November 13, 2023), researchers presented the results of the 11,255 patient ESPRIT trial of patients who also had diabetes and/or a past history of a stroke. When they were treated very aggressively for three...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 2, 2023 | Deaths of Famous People
In 1938, when he was 15, Henry Kissinger’s family escaped from Nazi Germany and came to the United States. They were so poor that he attended a New York high school at night and worked in a shaving brush factory during the day. At age 20, he was drafted into the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 1, 2023 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A study of 44,000 Swedish adults, 64 to 99 years of age, followed for up to 35 years, found that 2.7 percent (1,224) lived to their 100th birthday (Geroscience, Nov 4, 2023). Among the 1,224 centenarians in this study, 84 percent were women. The researchers wanted to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 30, 2023 | Nutrition
The greatest increase in “junk foods” (tasty processed foods with low nutritional value) in our food supply occurred when tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds owned the world’s largest food companies (Public Health Nutr, 2023 Jan;...
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...
