Carb Syndrome Blog Articles
Dueling Diagnoses: The Tragic Case of Justina Pelltier
The case of Justina Pelltier is troubling on many different levels. She is the 16-year old girl from Connecticut who was removed from her home by the state of Massachusetts based on a flimsy and controversial psychiatric diagnosis. At one point in time Justina was a...
Soldiers and Implantable Brain Devices: It’s 1984 All Over Again!
As I was driving to work the other day a story caught my attention on WBUR, my local NPR station. Apparently the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is launching a $70 million program to help military personnel with certain key psychiatric disorders...
Medical Shenanigans: Misusing Science for Financial Gain
I spend a lot of time looking over medical studies that cover my areas of interest and I am often dismayed how certain medical studies can be used to distort and twist the truth. Science can lead us down the road to improved health, but it can also have a dark side...
Introducing my Fantastic New and Amazing Anti-Aging Strategy: Parenthood
I want to apologize to the regular readers of my blog for the lack of any posts for the past six weeks. My wife Irene and I have experienced a minor interruption in our hectic lives and her name is Rafaella Avge Tsirozidou. She was born on February 28th, 2014. She...
Obesity: The Die is Cast by the Age of 5
A recent study titled “Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States” recently published in the NEJM has sent obesity experts around the world scrambling. The study took a longitudinal view of over 7,000 kindergarten children and followed their weight and height...
A New Name For Type 2 Diabetes: “Carbabetes”
It’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s out with the old and in with the new. Let’s start with the most common disease in our modern world—type II diabetes mellitus. I like descriptive names but the term “diabetes mellitus” just doesn’t do the trick for me. For my New Years resolution I decided to look for a more descriptive and relevant term.
Is Eating All Three Meals at School Really a Good Idea?
A recent news article caught my attention where some students in New Orleans now eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at school. This is apparently part of the Federal Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, a program geared at eliminating hunger and improving nutrition in school...
Age Like a Lobster, Rather Than Sugar-Guzzling Worm
The concept of aging has many dimensions. The simplest parameter we can measure is chronlogical age, the number of years you have spent on this earth since your birth. This is your so-called birthday age. Physiological aging is a much more nuanced yet more important...
Obesity Rate Once Again Heads Upward
The Gallop Well-being poll has been tracking obesity rates since 2008 and so far this year the rate has increased from 26.2% to 27.2%, the largest increase since they starting tracking obesity in adults.
Are Oreos as Addictive as Cocaine?
A recent study by Joseph Schroeder at Connecticut College suggests that Oreos are as addictive as drugs of abuse, at least for rats.