You Are What You... Are

This article from the New York Times reports on a study published the the Archives of Internal Medicine. The gist of it: Overweight people can be healthy and people who have weights within the "healthy" range can have disease markers traditionally associated with the overweight.

One of the tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that people are individuals and need to be treated as such. I've had patients come to me and say that their doctors ruled out gall bladder disease because they weren't "fat, female, and forty." But my experience is that environmental, emotional, and dietary stressors will affect people of all shapes and sizes, and will have an adverse effect on markers such as cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugar.

If you like you may read the published study.

You might also want to check out Sally Fallon's website. She's the author of Nourishing Traditions, and has been challenging status quo medical advice on diet and nutrition for years.