How exciting, a well designed study published in the New England Journal of Medicine strongly supports the Mediterranean diet for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The study, done in Spain, included more than 7,000 participants. Other studies have looked at diet to lower cholesterol but this study was designed to assess [...]

  I was fortunate to attend Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives- Caring for Our Patients and Ourselves, a continuing medical education conference co-presented by the Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard School of Public Health. As they promise in their write-up it was a “feast of scientific, clinical and culinary delights” and they delivered.The next [...]