Obesity is a topic that is often brought up by the media. It has been called an “epidemic” or “The biggest public health concern of our generation.” But what causes it? What perpetuates it? What can we do to fix it? It is easy to look at it like a equation – What calories you […]
E-cigarettes: a Growing Problem with a Growing Body of Evidence for Harm
In the first half of this decade, e-cigarettes were advertised and touted as a healthy option for smokers, essentially billed as “just the nicotine in healthy water vapor without all the harmful contents of tobacco smoke.” However, such claims are deja vu from the tobacco industry. Cigarettes themselves were touted as “good for your throat” […]
400 lbs of one person is just too much person
I’ve finished my surgical rotation and I’m currently doing a month of outpatient medicine. This means being in the clinic, doing prototypical doctor visits. It’s spread across a variety different areas, with a lot of general medicine, some urgent care, arthritis clinic, endocrine clinic, renal clinic, etc. However, one of the common threads is obesity. […]
