I definitely have a bad eating habit, and it’s not fast food, it’s eating food too fast. I can’t blame it on my medical training, it’s always been true. I can blame it on being in a hurry about many things: I also talk too fast. But I have a new plan to eat more slowly. Here’s why.
A panel of experts vested by the World Health Organization to evaluate the effects of eating meat reported on Monday (October 25, 2015) that eating processed meat (hot dogs, ham, bacon, etc.) raises the risk of colon cancer and that consuming other red meat “probably” raises the risk. As you can imagine, the report has attracted a lot of attention, and deserves to be put in perspective.
It happens to me most often when I’m responding to an after hours call from a patient, or during a scheduled phone appointment during a workday.
I hear background noise and ask if the person with whom I’m speaking is actually, at that moment, driving. If they’re the passenger in a car, fine, I’ll go ahead and speak with them. If they’re driving, I ask them to pull over.
Actually that title is a little bit of a misnomer, let me explain. I gave a whirlwind talk on 23andMe interpretations for a local group on Saturday night, and realize now that it was way too big a topic to tackle in just an hour. Thanks to all those sturdy participants who stayed with me, but it was a fast and bumpy ride!
Perhaps you heard about the recent study on the amount of sleep enjoyed by modern hunter-gatherer societies, the full text actually available here as a nice nod to public interest and intelligence.
The first of a series
We are outliving our ancestors, but are we outliving them well?
Some time ago, I posted a blog titled simply “Trouble In Paradise.” Now I sadly must add a Part Two to what I hope will be a very limited series of articles.
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Researcher Kevin Hall at the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Laboratory published a study in a recent issue of Cell Metabolism that set alive the world of metabolic researchers and physicians.
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