How to Improve Your SAT Scores
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 By Geoffrey R. Harris, MD
It is ironic that as science continues to find evermore evidence of the importance of better nutrition, the American diet continues to find evermore ways to replace natural, whole foods with processed, junk, and fast foods. As a family doctor, I get questions about improving and maintaining brain function all the time. It seems that improving memory, reasoning, and intelligence are a concern for every age group. Parents want their children to excel, students want to be able to quickly grasp new ideas, working people want to be alert and effective, and baby-boomers want to ensure they will be aware and productive for years to come. |
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How to get an "A" in Vitamin D
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 By Geoffrey R. Harris, MD
The middle of winter is when most physicians, nutritionists, and health magazines tend to mention the importance of vitamin D and recommend trying to get more time outside in the sun. Unfortunately, this advice may not help much, and might even cause other problems. Evolving scientific research is showing that vitamin D is far more important than we ever thought it was and we probably aren’t getting enough of it. That is why I chose now to discuss vitamin D and how to get the right amount. |
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 By Geoffrey R. Harris, MDRecently, New York City banned trans-fats and is giving city restaurants a year to remove trans-fats from the food they serve. Just this week, the restaurant chain Denny’s announced plans to remove trans-fats from the food they serve as early as the first half of 2007. |
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An Alarmist’s Approach to Health (a Plea for Moderation)
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 By Geoffrey R. Harris, MD
I often wonder how journalists and advertisers sleep at night. I wonder what they eat. I wonder how many medications they take. I can’t imagine they get as worked up about health as they push the public to be. Honestly, I don’t know which is worse, the multiple 24-hour news channels that are ravenous for any little tidbit to spin into content or the “direct-to-consumer” advertising for medications designed to treat rare conditions that most people will never suffer. I am often amused when I hear the line “ask your doctor if this medication is right for you;” I think about the woman who once asked me about a prostate medicine and why I had never checked her prostate. |
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 By Geoffrey R. Harris, MDProtein has become a loaded word these days. High protein, low carb . . . they’re concepts that have dominated nutrition discussions in recent years. What’s the truth? First, a very brief chemistry lesson: much of our body, including muscles, organs, skin, hair, and enzymes, is made primarily of protein. |
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