by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 1, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
Ty Cobb was probably the most aggressive baseball player who ever lived. He was better than everyone else at almost every baseball statistic except fielding, for which he still holds the American League record for errors (271) by an outfielder. During his baseball...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 25, 2015 | Fitness
I think that asking people to stand at work, rather than sit, is harmful advice because standing and not moving is no better than sitting and is just going to make you too tired to exercise vigorously when you are not working. The highly-publicized studies that showed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 25, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
Roy Orbison was one of America’s top singers and songwriters from 1957 to 1988. He sang his emotional ballads while standing still and wearing black clothes and dark-framed tinted glasses. Between 1960 and 1964, 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top 40. Elvis...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 18, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
Paul Prudhomme died Thursday, October 8, 2015, at age 75. He was an internationally famous chef and restaurateur who, in the early 1980’s, used blackening and spicing of fish and chicken in the Cajun and Creole traditions to build a food empire. He started a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 11, 2015 | Nutrition
Two research reports, one reviewing 59 studies and the other reviewing 50 studies, found that neither calcium pills nor foods rich in calcium prevent bone fractures (British Medical Journal, September 29, 2015;351:h4183 ). An editorial in the same journal issue states...
