Obese Americans now an overwhelming majority If you’re a regular air traveler in Alaska or even just an occasional one, as most are, you might have noticed that the people occupying the […]
Obesity redefined
The Lifesaver
Better health is only steps away With U.S. life expectancies steadily falling behind those of other Western nations and the U.S. medical community suggesting expensive GLP-1 drugs and vaccines for everything as […]
The pushers
Leave it to the American College of Cardiology to out American physicians for what so many of them have become: drug pushers. The College this week declared that “NuSH therapies” – short […]
Killer road
A news analysis The Anchorage Police Department is refusing to identify the hit-and-run driver who a week ago killed 33-year-old Aaron Cleveland on Brayton Road, a state-designated “bike route” that has […]
What’s killing us
Foolish to be fat and proud of it Here, according to the latest research in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine, is what the Fat Acceptance/Body Positive movement is helping to […]
Costs of aging
Falls more dangerous than firearms Older Alaskans and the families of such take notice: The bedroom, bathroom and stairs at home are statically more dangerous to health than the firearms there. That […]
Trafficking
America’s biggest public health problem The U.S. Union of Concerned Scientists is out with a new report highlighting the costs of the country’s addiction to motor vehicles, but it misses one of […]
Car-diction
Millions dead give new meaning to ‘killer traffic’ Forget for a moment the pandemic – if that is possible – and turn your attention to a very good study out of England […]
Chasing health
Confronting the Epidemic of Sloth Physiologists, epidemiologists and big-data miners have been combing through the United Kingdom’s Biobank again, and it appears they may have come up with an answer to a […]
What matters
While Americans continue to feud over face coverings, a huge new meta-analysis is out pointing to what really drives the burden of Covid-19 in the Western world: obesity and so-called comorbidities. The […]
