Recently, I returned from a trip to Panama where I saw several cases of Leishmaniasis. While it is a rare disease throughout the world,
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I always cringe when I hear patients tell their kids the doctor will give them a shot if they don’t behave. Doctors are not here
There is increasing evidence that obesity does play some role in the causality of breast cancer. There are over 40,000 women who die of breast
The most common, and most frustrating to treat, cause of obesity is inappropriate energy balance. To maintain a person’s current weight, simply put, the energy
For years, we have learned (and teaching) that obesity arises from the excess intake of calories and underutilization of those calories. It is true
The media is saturated with news about the alarming rates of being overweight (defined as having excess body weight for a particular height from fat,
