by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 1, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. He shared a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics with another genius, Richard Feynman, for his re-normalization theory of quantum electrodynamics....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 23, 2015 | Nutrition
Sugar-added to foods, but not in whole fruits, increases risk for diabetes, heart attack and premature death, according to a new summary of animal and human studies, clinical trials in humans and epidemiological human population studies (Mayo Clinic Proceedings,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 8, 2015 | Fitness
A Danish study agrees with most previous studies that regular joggers as a group live longer than sedentary non-joggers (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February 2, 2015). However, most of the news media reported that this study showed that slow,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 8, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
Gerty Cori was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1947, for the discovery of how muscles covert sugar to lactic acid for energy during exercise and how the lactic acid then travels in the bloodstream to the liver where it is...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 1, 2015 | Fitness
A new study shows that exposing mice to cold temperatures increases their body’s production of calorie-burning “brown fat” (Molecular Cell, published online Jan. 8, 2015). You have two types of fat in your body: • white fat that your body stores...
