Doctors’ Forum Archive

Aug. 20, 2008: “Nutrient changes when adopting a vegan diet” by Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, M.S., R.D.

• Effects of a Low-Fat Vegan Diet and a Step II Diet on Macro- and Micronutrient Intakes in Overweisth and Postmenopausal Women (PDF)
• A Two-Year Ramndomized Weight Loss Trial Comparing a Vegan Diet to a More Moderate Low-Fat Diet (PDF)

July 2, 2008: Physician Health and Patient Care with Erica Frank, M.D., M.P.H.

• “Physician Health and Patient Care” by Erica Frank, M.D., M.P.H. (pdf)

June 18, 2008: Effectiveness of Group Care with Brent Jaster, M.D.

• Web site for Dr. Jaster’s health care organization: www.JasterHealth.com
• “Effectiveness of a Group Outpatient Visit Model for Chronically Ill Older Health Maintenance Organization Members: A 2-Year Randomized Trial of the Cooperative Health Care Clinic” by John C. Scott, et al. (PDF)
• “A 5-Year Randomized Controlled Study of Learning, Problem Solving Ability, and Quality of Life Modifications in People With Type 2 Diabetes Managed by Group Care” by Marina Trento, et al. (PDF)
• “Group Prenatal Care and Perinatal Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial” [Manuscript] by Jeannette R. Ickovics, et al. (PDF)
• “Group Prenatal Care and Perinatal Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial” [Final article] by Jeannette R. Ickovics, et al. (PDF)

June 4, 2008: Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study with John Pierce, Ph.D.
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• “Influence of a Diet Very High in Vegetables, Fruit, and Fiber and Low in Fat on Prognosis Following Treatment for Breast Cancer” by John Pierce, Ph.D., et al. (PDF)

May 21, 2008: Lifestyle Trials on Heart Disease and Prostate Cancer with Dean Ornish, M.D.
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• “Angina pectoris and atherosclerotic risk factors in the multisite cardiac lifestyle intervention program” by Dean Ornish, M.D., et al. (PDF)
• “Relationship of dietary protein and soy isoflavones to serum IGF-1 and IGF binding proteins in the prostate cancer lifestyle trial” by Dean Ornish, M.D., et al. (PDF)

May 7, 2008: Extraordinary Memory of Chimpanzees with Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ph.D.
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• "Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees" by Sana Inoue and Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ph.D. (PDF)
• Video Summary of Memory Research (wmv)

April 16, 2008: Ethical Implications of Animal Research with Peter Singer, B.A., M.A., B.Phil.
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• “Equality for Animals” - an excerpt from Practical Ethics by Peter Singer (HTML)
• “Proving the Obvious” - an excerpt from Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide by Peter Singer (HTML)

April 2, 2008: Low-Fat Diet and Cancer Incidence in Women with Ross Prentice, Ph.D.
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• “Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Cancer Incidence in the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Randomized Controlled Trial” by Ross Prentice, Ph.D., et al. (PDF)
• “The Women’s Health Initiative: Lessons Learned” by Ross Prentice, Ph.D. and Garnet Anderson, Ph.D. (PDF)
• “Data from the Women’s Health Initiative” by Ross Prentice, Ph.D. (Powerpoint)

March 20, 2008: Nutrition and the AMA Legislative Agenda with Ronald M. Davis, M.D.
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• “Delivering and ounce (or more) of prevention in your office” by Ronald M. Davis, M.D. (PDF)
• “To partner or perish? That is the question” by Ronald M. Davis, M.D. (PDF)
• “Exercise: a dose of medicine we all can use” by Ronald M. Davis, M.D. (Word doc)
• “Healthy meetings and conferences: Let’s practice what we preach” by Ronald M. Davis, M.D. (Word doc)
• “Reducing alcohol abuse and underage drinking” by Ronald M. Davis, M.D. (Word doc)

March19, 2008: Health Effects of Soy with Alison M. Duncan, Ph.D.
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• “Phytoestrogens” chapter from Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism by Alison Duncan, Ph.D., et al. (PDF)
• “Effect of soy protein varying in isoflavone content on serum lipids in healthy young men” by Alison Duncan, Ph.D., et al. (PDF)

February 20, 2008: Dietary Portfolio for Heart Health with David J.A. Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. Listen to this presentation (wav)

• “Effects of a Dietary Portfolio of Cholesterol-Lowering Foods vs Lovastatin on Serum Lipids and C-Reactive Protein” by David J.A. Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. (PDF)
• “Assessment of the longer-term effects of a dietary portfolio cholesterol-lowering foods in hypercholesterolemia” by David J.A. Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. (PDF)

January 16, 2008: The World is Fat with Barry Popkin, Ph.D.
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• “Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases” by Barry Popkin, Ph.D. (PDF)
• “The world is fat” by Barry Popkin, Ph.D. (PDF)
• “The prevalence of overweight and obesity” by Barry Popkin, Ph.D. (Powerpoint)

December 19, 2007: The Glycemic Index with Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D.
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• “The glycemic index as a measure of health and nutritional quality: an Australian perspective” by Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D. (PDF)
• “Comparison of 4 diets of varying glycemic load on weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction in overweight and obese young adults” by Joanna McMillan-Price, et al. (PDF)
• “Glycemic Index” by Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D. (Powerpoint)

December 5, 2007: Broccoli and Cancer Prevention, with Paul Talalay, M.D.
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• Sulforaphane mobilizes cellular defenses that protect skin against damage by UV radiation”
  by Paul Talalay, M.D., et al. (PDF)
• “Summary of findings” by Paul Talalay, M.D. (Word doc)

November 7, 2007: Diet and Cancer with Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D.
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• “Food, nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of cancer: A global perspective” -- World Cancer Research Fund & American Institute for Cancer Research (PDF)
• “American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention: Reducing the risk of cancer with healthy food choices and physical activity” – Lawrence H. Kushi, et al. (PDF)
• Comments on: "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" and the ACS recommendations for cancer prevention
  - Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D. (powerpoint)

October 17, 2007: Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.PH. – Dairy Products and the Risk of Bone Fracture
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• “Dairy products and the risk of bone fracture” by Willett (Power Point)
• “Fracture prevention with vitamin D supplementation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials” by Bischoff-Ferrari, Willett, Wong, Giovannucci, Dietrich, and Dawson-Hughes (PDF)
• “Calcium, vitamin D, milk consumption, and hip fractures: a prospective study among postmenopausal women” by Feskanich, Willett, and Colditz (PDF)

October 3, 2007: Gordon Saxe, M.D., Ph.D. – Impact of Diet in the Management of Prostate Cancer
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• “Potential Attenuation of Disease Progression in Recurrent Prostate Cancer with Plant-Based Diet and Stress Reduction,” by Gordon Saxe, M.D., Ph.D., et al. (PDF)
• “Plant-based Diet and Stress Reduction in the Management of Recurrent Prostate Cancer,” by Gordon Saxe, M.D., Ph.D. (PowerPoint)

September 19, 2007: Albert Li, Ph.D. – Human-based In Vitro Experimental Systems
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• "Accurate Prediction of Human Drug Toxicity: Challenges and Promising Approaches" Albert P. Li, Ph.D. (PDF)
• "Human hepatocytes: Isolation, cryopreservation and applications in drug development" Albert P. Li, Ph.D. (PDF)
• "In Vitro Approaches to Evaluate ADMET Drug Properties" Albert P. Li, Ph.D. (PDF)

September 5, 2007: John McDougall, M.D. – Effect of Protein Intake and Acidity of the Diet on Bone Health
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• “Resisting the Broken Bone Business: Bone Mineral Density Tests and the Drugs that Follow” by John McDougall, M.D. (PowerPoint)
• “Excess protein damages the bones” by John McDougall, M.D. (Word doc)

August 15, 2007: Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H. – Ethical and Scientific Implications of Animal Experimentation
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• “Comparison of treatment effects between animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review” Pablo Perel, et al. (PDF)
• “The Trouble with Animal Models” Andrea Gawrylewski
• “Modern biomedical research: an internally self-consistent universe with little contact with medical reality?” David F. Horrobin (PDF)
• “Animal Experiments: Can We Do Better?” Aysha Akhtar (PowerPoint)
  

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