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...This is a public health problem, and public health problems require policies that actually reinforce positive choices," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of the University of California, San Francisco, a principle author of one of the NEJM studies. "We know that healthy nutritious foods and physical activity are really the keys to preventing excessive weight gain in childhood. We need a concerted effort at the federal, state and local level - across government and industry - to ensure that those things are available to our children...
Those efforts are already overdue, according to the findings of Bibbins-Domingo's report. Extrapolating from childhood obesity rates from 2000, she and colleagues at San Francisco General Hospital and Columbia University, estimate that by 2020, as many as 44% of American women and 37% of men, at age 35, will be obese - obese and, therefore, ill. By 2020, "we found, not unexpectedly, that the prevalence of heart disease will rise by as much as 16%, and heart disease deaths by as much as 19% between the ages of 35 and 50 years," says Bibbins-Domingo. Estimating conservatively, that figure...
...with the elderly cattle it comes from. For years I have been chasing down the secret to the ultimate steak, and I had reason to believe it lay somewhere in northern Spain. So Madrid-based food writer Pedro Espinosa agreed to meet me deep in the Basque hills surrounding San Sebastián, from where we would eat our way cross-country to El Capricho, a restaurant near the tiny town of Jiménez de Jamuz in the northwestern province of León. We knew that José Gordón Ferrero, the restaurant's beef-obsessed owner...
...Chávez can keep raking in tons of cash without expanding production--even with production declining," says David Mares, an oil-politics expert at the University of California at San Diego. "He's taking advantage of the situation we consumers dropped in his lap." Mares says Chávez has to invest more in his oil industry in the future. Although it also wouldn't hurt if Americans learned to consume less...
...when the first cases of AIDS were emerging, few doctors knew what the disease was, much less how to treat it. But as chief of medicine at San Francisco's General Hospital, infectious-diseases expert Merle Sande recognized the impending epidemic and began putting together a plan for tackling the disease. By 1983 he had successfully lobbied for a dedicated hospital ward for AIDS patients. He also helped develop the "San Francisco model" of treatment, which emphasized infection control and research financing, becoming a blueprint for clinics nationwide. He was 68 and had multiple myeloma...