by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 18, 2024 | Fitness
Having a job that requires prolonged sitting is likely to be associated with increased heart attack and premature death risks unless you also exercise. A study involving 481,688 people followed for an average 12 years found that those who had jobs that required...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 8, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
Shannen Doherty was a television and film actress whose roles included Jenny Wilder in Little House on the Prairie (1982), Maggie Malene in Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985); Kris Witherspoon in Our House (1986–1988), Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990, 2008...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
When you are trying to lose excess weight, eat lots of leafy green vegetables. Researchers at Imperial College in London found that high-fiber foods from plants help people lose weight by causing the intestines to release an appetite-suppressing gut hormone called PYY...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 7, 2024 | Nutrition
Recent interest in vitamin K2 has led advocates of grass-fed beef to focus on its vitamin K2 content (J of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, 2006;25;54(2):463-7) . Sellers of cow’s meat either let their cows eat grass, or they can make the cows fatter and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 22, 2024 | Deaths of Famous People
On July 12, 2023, ‘Doctor Ruth” died at age 96 of complications from a stroke that she first suffered a year before. She was a sex therapist and talk show host who at age 52 in 1980 started her radio show, “Sexually Speaking”, on WYNY-FM in New York City. The show...
