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...average American doesn’t take even 5,000 steps,” he says with not a small touch of pride as he flips open the pedometer’s case to prove his mileage. With 2,000 steps to a Blackburn mile, it’s clear that this white-haired 67-year-old doctor covers a lot of ground...
...Blackburn served as director of the surgical intensive care unit at New England Deaconess Hospital from 1973 to 1997, but his main interest now is combating obesity as the Abraham associate professor of nutrition at Harvard Medical School...
...government officials attempt to revamp the Food Guide Pyramid by 2005, Blackburn is part of the frenetic effort among nutrition leaders across the nation to convince Americans that the battle of the bulge is a matter of life and death...
...part of this effort, Blackburn was one of 400 people who gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health earlier this month to discuss proposed changes to the Food Guide Pyramid, a symbol used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to represent a balanced diet...
...Blackburn didn’t have the answer, but he pointed to a new website put together by the USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which provides an online tool to evaluate one’s daily diet. The Interactive Healthy Eating Index allows users to list foods they’ve eaten—from alfalfa to zwiebek toast—and then enter in an approximate serving size. The website crunches the numbers to compare the users’ food intake to the USDA’s recommended guidelines (see related article, right...