So much is happening on the alcohol frontier these days that it is getting hard to keep up.  Let’s start with the multiplicity of reports on alcohol and health arriving one after another.  I’ve written about the NASEM and Surgeon General’s reports recently.  I’ve also written recently about their

A reader, Maria Birman, alerted me to this new report in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology from the 56-member Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity.  The commission recommended shifting the definition and diagnostic criteria for obesity away from the BMI and instead

Today is Martin Luther King Day and it’s worth thinking about what he stood for as we inaugurate a new President. Nneka M. Okona writing in Food & Wine tells us: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Taste in Food Shows Us Who He Was: Sunday suppers at home and simple meals in restaurants give insight

Emily K. Abel.  Gluten Free for Life.  NYU Press, 2025. I was surprised to be asked to do a blurb for this book, since I don’t have to worry much about gluten and rarely comment on clinical medicine, but after reading it I was glad to do one.  It’s a really good book.  My back cover blurb: This

I’ve been interviewed a lot lately about ultraprocessed foods.  See, for example: New York Times Well Challenge: Day 4: Grocery shop like a nutrition scientist New York Times 10 Ways to Eat Better  The New Yorker:  Why is the American Diet So Deadly? And Gary Ruskin of US Right to Know sent me this