“Products that are highly refined will send our blood sugar soaring the fastest, and the faster it soars, the faster it hits the reward system in the brain," Michael Moss (Michael Moss) writes in his new book, Hooked." nypost.com/article/why-su…

Heartbreaking, incisive instincts in this superb article. As relevant today as in 2009. Our health-care system killed my father, too.. x.com/HealthDividend…

This comparison says it all - good health and longevity does not come from spending more, but spending smart!

Whoa - an ad on CNN for the House Republicans health plan!? abetterhealthcareplan.com

'Being a woman' was a pre-existing condition.--Debbie Stabenow (D) Michigan Debbie Stabenow Tom Price

Add to TV Drug Ads "may cause unaffordable health insurance premiums, and burden your nation with unsustainable debt" #preventionnotremedies

If average medical cost per family in chronically ill America ($10k/capita=$40k/family of 4) exceeds average INCOME/family, who would hire in the US? Reducing the corporate tax rate doesn't add jobs; investing in health does. #rewardprevention #nutritioneducationisfiscalpolicy

Define cost--short term or long term.... x.com/robertlustigmd…

Not a word on sugar consumption? With our exploding diabetes prevalence? Overconsumption wears out systems for balancing blood sugar = expensive treatments = higher insurance premiums for all... Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion cdc.gov/chronicdisease… CDC

In case there's still partisan bickering over why health insurance premiums continue up up and up: chronic disease, chronic disease and more chronic disease. Number 1 in cost = diabetes, mostly avoidable.

Or reduce our unsustainable level of national debt? C'mon Robert Reich, you know money doesn't grow on trees... x.com/rbreich/status…

A dog will get you out daily even in the worst of times! x.com/bernardjtyson/…

Painful story. It can't help that well-meaning physicians are taught to sell patients symptom-relieving drugs rather than address the diet-borne diseases that kill 7 of 10 of us... wapo.st/2D4QFmQ?tid=ss…

Right on! Jeff, Warren & Jamie --I can help you guys! nytimes.com/2018/01/30/tec…

The Amazon/BerkshireHathaway/JPMorgan initiative on healthcare is significant. Opportunity to reduce cost and improve outcomes is obvious to anyone declining partisan koolaid: US healthcare cost/capita is 2x OECD average. Because we're sicker. Address that, reap dividends.

I answered the question. x.com/michaelgoran/s…

"Republicans will never do anything on gun control," says former GOP Rep. David Jolly. "The idea of gun policy in the Republican party is to try to get a speaking slot at the NRA and prove to that constituency that you are further right"

What this study shows is that processed food is the problem,” said Lustig. “That’s the takeaway.” mercurynews.com/2018/02/22/low…

Awaiting tomorrow's #jobsreport, riddle me this: Tax Reform was sold as opportunity for wage increases, yet if Feb wages increase >2.8% the stock market threatens to drop on inflation fears and fed rate hikes. Do investors require every penny of tax windfall for themselves??

The #tariffs conversation avoids the most important issue; if US steel PRODUCERS raise prices taking advantage of fewer imports, instead of passing on lower cost (from higher capacity utilization) to American steel USERS, shame on them, they don't deserve Federal protection.