Why Calorie Counting Doesn’t Work

Why Calorie Counting Doesn’t Work

A team of 17 internationally recognized scientists published a paper supported by more than 169 journal references, proposing that the current obesity epidemic is not caused just by taking in too many calories (Am J Clin Nutr, September 13, 2021). They believe that...
Arm Exercises: Conductors Often Have Long Lives

Arm Exercises: Conductors Often Have Long Lives

Eighty-year-old Ricardo Muti just extended his contract to conduct the Chicago Symphony to 2023 (Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2021). Pablo Casals, Nadia Boulanger, Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Rubinstein, Mehli Mehta and Paul Paray all conducted major orchestras into...
Colin Powell: Vaccination to Protect the Immune-Compromised

My Favorite Poet, Edgar Allan Poe

NOTE: You can listen to me read and discuss my favorite poem on my archived radio show Hour 90, which was broadcast in 2004.  This was actually one of my last shows; we had just announced the end of show (after 25 years of broadcasts), so many of the callers that...