by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Heart Health
Thirty percent of all deaths in the world are due to heart disease. The authors of a study covering 3.8 billion people in 186 countries believe that there would be a great reduction in heart attack deaths if people increased their intake of the healthful vegetable...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Roger Ebert was the Chicago Sun-Times film critic who joined the Chicago Tribune film critic, Gene Siskel, in hosting a nationally-acclaimed show on PBS television. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for reviewing movies and the first film critic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Nutrition
Fish oil pills are the third most-bought food supplement, after vitamins and minerals, and are bought by 10 percent of North Americans at a cost of about $1.2 billion each year. Fish oil pills have not been shown to help prevent heart attacks, even though people who...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Erich Segal was on the track team with me at Harvard and ran the Boston Marathon with me several times. Both of us were mediocre runners trying to prove ourselves. A line in one of his novels, The Class, described both of us: “Fear of death is universal. But...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 20, 2016 | Women's Health
Women pay millions of dollars for products that are supposed to get rid of cellulite, but there is no such thing as cellulite. The fat on a woman's hips and thighs is the same as the fat anywhere else. She has skin on the outside, fat in the middle and muscles and...
