Dr. David Katz

David L. Katz MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is a board certified specialist in both Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He is the founding Director (1998) of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center; Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, CT; founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation

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Sneaking Artificial Sweeteners into Milk

Posted by: | April 1st, 2013 | 0 comments

Kids are, reportedly, consuming less milk in school. Sometimes, the kids are swapping water for milk; sometimes, they are switching to diet sodas. And so the dairy industry is petitioning the FDA to allow for aspartame-sweetened milk, with no mention of the artificial sweetener on the front of pack. View Full Post

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“Flame Retardants” in Your Gatorade: Hazard, or Hype?

Posted by: | January 30th, 2013 | 3 comments

We have a long history of doing questionable things to vegetable oils -- and putting them in odd places in the food supply. View Full Post

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3 Steps to Outsmarting the Flu

Posted by: | December 28th, 2011 | 0 comments

Guest Blogger: David L. Katz, MD ’Tis the season for holiday cheer. But your holidays will be a whole lot cheerier if you don’t share them with influenza! So ’tis the season for flu prevention, too. Fortunately, there are plenty of steps that can help. Step 1: Get... View Full Post

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Pizza as Vegetable? Preposterous!

Posted by: | December 8th, 2011 | 0 comments

Congress just gave us all permission to serve our children pizza as a vegetable. The putative excuse for listing pizza as a vegetable — like ketchup before it — is the inclusion of tomatoes in the recipe. That would be ludicrous enough if pizza were mostly about tomato sauce, and if... View Full Post