Grand Rounds: Nutrition and Fitness edition
Posted by Dave on April 6, 2010 | 18 Comments
Welcome to the Grand Rounds — a weekly roundup of medical and health blogging, hosted on a different blog each week. This edition is volume 6, number 28 (click here for last week’s edition).
Since this is fitness month on Daily Monthly, I asked this week’s participants to focus on nutrition and fitness where possible, and we got a great response.
An apple a day
Let’s start things off with nutrition. Travis Saunders of Obesity Panacea reports on a very interesting behavioral economics paper: Junk Food Tax or Health Food Subsidy – Which Results in Healthier Food Purchases? Which does? Well, you’ll have to read the post.
Next, the Happy Hospitalist reports on the Doctor’s Day menu at the hospital, and finds that the offerings aren’t exactly healthy. Perhaps this is a feature designed to keep doctors fully employed?
Over at HealthLine, Nancy Brown discusses a recent report linking school-lunch consumption with obesity and overweight. Consuming lunches was associated with a raft of unhealthy behaviors, although the usual correlation/causation caveats apply here.
In a sobering post, Dr. Emer at Parallel Universes analyzes the typical diet of poor Filipinos. The food consumption of nearly 40 percent of that country is sadly deficient.
Ves Dimov at Allergy Notes gives us a very thorough discussion of pea allergies, including cross-reactions to other allergies like peanuts and soy.
Next, impactEDnurse offers a startling post on whether your bladder can rupture if you don’t pee. Check out the post for the details, but by all means, visit the restroom first!
Finally, my fellow ScienceBlogs alum Dr. Charles offers a word of warning about top-rated doctors. Skepticism is in order when looking at patient ratings of doctors. In one case, a highly-rated doctor may have been overprescribing dangerous medications that had the “convenient side effect” of causing weight loss.
Staying strong
Now let’s take a look at a couple posts on exercise and fitness. First, from How To Cope With Pain is a very interesting discussion of exercise and pain in “phantom limbs.” Amputees frequently experience pain and irritation in the nonexistent limb. Turns out, one way to solve the problem is to imagine exercising it.
Jolie Bookspan argues that staying fit involves more than just exercising 30 minutes a day, and suggests other means of staying fit. Her whole blog offers tips on how to do that.
Here on Daily Monthly I’ve just started a month of coverage of fitness. I’m going to be using myself as a guinea pig as I explore the latest research on nutrition and fitness. You can follow my daily diet and exercise routine here, and here’s a post on the relationship between exercise and health. There’ll be much more as the month progresses, so if you like what you see here, I hope you’ll come back.
Finally, a video that serves as a dramatic demonstration of the difference between an elite athlete and the average guy. This is hilarious! (via Jason Kottke)
Medical miscellany
I proposed fitness and nutrition as the theme for this week, but said it was “optional.” Several bloggers submitted posts that don’t meet the theme, but are amazingly interesting and informative.
Bongi describes the lessons learned from a first appendectomy. Most of them have nothing to do with surgery!
Supporting Safer Healthcare offers excellent advice about how to tell your boss you’re overworked.
Next, impactEDnurse regales us with another tale of bodily waste: Human excrement as art. Very expensive art, I might add.
On Sharp Brains, Alvaro Fernandez interviews Patrick Donohue about the Sarah Jane Brain Project, which aims to improve treatment of pediatric brain injuries.
Finally, Lauren of Novel Patient explains how creating a “box of hope” helped her deal with clinical depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.
But wait, there’s more!
That ends the official Grand Rounds for this week. Next week’s edition will be hosted at Parallel Universes. You can email your submissions to doc.emer (at) gmail (dot) com by 11:59 p.m. EST on April 12, 2010.
But now that I’ve got your attention, I wanted to direct you to another great resource. ResearchBlogging.org is a site I co-founded devoted to collecting blog posts about peer-reviewed research. It’s sort of a clearinghouse for the best of the best in all areas of science, including medicine, clinical research, and health. Over 1,000 blogs are registered, including such notable medical / health blogs as Respectful Insolence, Science-Based Medicine, Obesity Panacea, Cancer Research UK, and Weighty Matters. Why not join us? For more information, visit this page.
Just to give you an example of the kind of work we collect, here’s a sampling I made based on a quick search of posts on ResearchBlogging.org on “nutrition” and “exercise” over the past week:
- FAT? – I’m Not To Blame It’s My Genes!
- Chocolate as Antihypertensive Drug?
- Eating high fructose corn syrup makes Yogi bear…fatter than the average bear.
- Eccentric Training — Overhyped?
- Obesity Increases Injury Risk in Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Six hours per day — The amount your life expectancy is being increased by better nutrition and medical technology
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April 6th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
Nice work, Dave!
Evan
April 6th, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
Eek! that video is scary, especially as I’m slower than the guy in the suit.
I’ll watch it later to find out who the other runners were: I’d guess none of them are pitchers.
April 6th, 2010 @ 11:15 pm
Very well done – clear and full of good reads. The video of the “sprinter” was astonishing funny!
I’ll look forward to checking out Research Blogging in the near future. So much good blogging, so little time.
April 7th, 2010 @ 10:52 am
great job. I love your blog concept
April 7th, 2010 @ 5:07 pm
Great job Dave, I really enjoyed this week’s Grand Rounds. Very nice. :)
-Aurora from MDiTV
twitter.com/mditvOrg
April 9th, 2010 @ 4:22 pm
Great edition! The theme is near to my heart, but unfortunately I had no time to contribute to it myself.
I only knew you from researchblogging.org.
The Daily Monthly… nice concept.
April 10th, 2010 @ 10:46 am
Great job on Grand Rounds. I agree that all medical bloggers should join Research Blogging. http://www.ResearchBlogging.org If we all joined and cited the articles that backed up our points we could potentially make a larger impact in the world of medical information exchange. My team blog Pallimed has been a part of it for a long time. It makes it really simple to cite articles.
April 6th, 2010 @ 11:29 am
Grand rounds: Nutrition and Fitness edition http://goo.gl/fb/Elubq
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April 6th, 2010 @ 11:29 am
This week’s Grand Rounds is up on @dailymonthly — some great posts! http://is.gd/bhk8r
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April 6th, 2010 @ 11:38 am
My “Box of Hope” blog post got into this week’s Grand Rounds (best of medical blogging)! http://dailymonthly.com/?p=368 (at the end)
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April 6th, 2010 @ 11:38 am
My “Box of Hope” blog post got into this week’s Grand Rounds (best of medical blogging)! http://dailymonthly.com/?p=368 (at the end)
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April 6th, 2010 @ 11:49 am
Great nutrition & fitness Grand Rounds this week over on @dailymonthly-http://bit.ly/cwzK9t Kudos to featured Health Activist @NovelPatient!
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April 6th, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
Grand Rounds is up! Enjoy the nutrition and fitness edition: http://dailymonthly.com/?p=368 Thanks to @davemunger
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April 6th, 2010 @ 1:01 pm
Grand Rounds: Nutrition and Fitness edition http://bit.ly/bpe19w
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April 6th, 2010 @ 6:08 pm
The Daily Monthly [Grand Rounds]: Grand Rounds 6.28
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April 6th, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
Get fit with this week’s edition of Grand Rounds at The Daily Monthly!
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April 15th, 2010 @ 10:30 pm
Thanks for this great article, gardening has always been a hobby. I put myself through college as a single parent by working on the grounds crew in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Since I have been in such pain though, it has become my “therapy”. The rewards of seeing things grow or seeing caterpillars eat and become butterflies
helps me to look forward to the next day. I realized a long time ago, when I first was unable to go back to work that one of the positives of my being ill was that I could “watch” my garden more. Even if I don’t feel good I go sit and become “mindful”. I think a key to continued living is finding the positives in whatever is thrown across our path. Hurricane Ike really damaged the garden I had developed since 1989 and my home too. This spring I have begun to see the garden recover, so just as I recovered from having the garden, now the garden is recovering because it has me and my friends that take care of it.
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April 16th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Michele, I liked how you found made something positive – being able to watch your garden more – out of illness.
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