“I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.” — Attributed to King Henry IV …
Michael S. Fenster, MD
Michael S. Fenster, MD
Michael S. Fenster, MD, FACC, FRSM, FSCA&I, MIANE, PEMBA, known to friends and fans simply as “Chef Dr. Mike,” is one of the world’s only board-certified interventional cardiologist and professional chef. He holds cross-faculty appointments at The University of Montana (College of Health and UM Medicine, School of Public Health, and Missoula College Culinary Arts Program). He currently teaches one of the country’s leading courses on Culinary Medicine at The University of Montana. Read full bio.
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: UPFs — Serious as a Heart Attack
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” — Mineko Iwasaki This week’s study comes from a meta-analysis presented just a week …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Links & Chains
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” — Samuel Johnson A common criticism of much of the research linking …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Sweet Dangers
“The essence of deception is to mask the truth so well that even the vigilant are led astray.” — Anonymous Currently, there is much (appropriate) applause for actions taken regarding …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: The Medical Economics of Ultraprocessed Food
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem; neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H.L. Mencken, The Divine Afflatus This week, the Study Spotlight Takeaway starts with a disclaimer: …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: The Hunger Games
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” — Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Recently, the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 drugs, also known as GLP-1 agonists, …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: Ultraprocessed Food and Neurodegenerative Disease
“By the time you’re eighty years old, you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” — George Burns Over the course of human history, views on aging have changed. …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: Timer of Our Lives
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.” — Hector Berlioz Over the last year, various articles and research were presented in this column, representing advances …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: The Global Dinner Table
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” — Oscar Wilde This time of year is a great opportunity to pause and reflect on the many …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: Diabetes and late-night eating
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” — William Shakespeare (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 2) Previously, in this column, I have discussed the …