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
Lesson lost
The true American killer What should have been the main lesson learned by the survivors of the pandemic of the old and the ill would appear to have been missed by those […]
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 […]
Covid silos
Will this science live on? Remember when we were all standing six feet apart in lines thinking that doing so was going to help protect us from Covid-19? Well, a team of […]
Deadly easy
The ‘Soft American’ grows ever softer With the unUnited States of America having become, collectively, the fattest, unfittest, unhealthiest and, in some ways, unfriendliest nations in the Western world thanks to the […]
Medical mysteries
The mind-body connection in Covid-19 The ability of placebos – or what have sometimes been called “dummy pills” – to trigger physiological responses that help people battle Covid-19 are now being reported […]
All doped up
Make America Healthy Again These now unUnited States of America have a drug problem, and it’s a lot bigger than the illicit chemicals that have cost the country more than $1 […]
Fat and dead
Expediting the U.S. trip to the grave On the day a “sweeping new paper” put America’s crisis of corpulence in the headlines across the country, I was reporting on the record number […]
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 […]
Self-inflicted deaths
The troubling U.S. death rate Americans are dying at a record rate compared to residents of other Western nations, and the U.S. medical establishment can’t seem to figure out why. JAMA […]
