Michael S. Fenster, MD

“Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The very first artificial sweetener seemed an accident too good to …

“The early bird gets the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.” — Anonymous We’ve all encountered that singularly annoying person. For some it’s the incessantly hyperbolic perkiness of that …

“When equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal.” — Plato, Laws, Books 1-6 Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are commonly perceived and often presented as the latest incarnation …

“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 …

“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 …

“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 …

“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 …

“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: …

“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, …

“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. …