Feet, Forks, and the Fate of Our Families
David L. Katz, MD, MPH
CMO, Tangelo. Founder: Diet ID; True Health Initiative. Founding Director, Yale-Griffin PRC (1998-2019). Health Journalist. COVID Curmudgeon
The master levers of medical destiny are nothing at the cutting edge of biomedical advance. They are feet (physical activity), forks (dietary pattern), and fingers (tobacco use)- and they are in your hands. With the right skill-power, we could be captains, all, of our medical destinies; we could refashion our fate at the very level of our genes. We could nurture nature. We could live the pleasure of vitality. And we could bequeath to our children a future redolent with the promise of more years in life, more life in years; a future in which 8 times in 10, the diagnosis of a serious chronic disease- heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, dementia- simply doesn't happen!
I was privileged to make this case last week in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the Clinton School of Public Service:
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Dr. David L. Katz; author of the forthcoming 'Disease Proof'
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