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...hardly needed these particular experts to tell us that the weight of the average American is ballooning out of control. "We talk incessantly about weight loss," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But obesity levels are going through the roof. We cling to the idea that there is a quick fix." Of course, there isn't, which is why most health experts view Atkins et al. with a healthy dose of skepticism. These diets are extreme, and almost no one is capable of sticking with a no-fat diet, or an all-protein diet or a diet with...
...Regardless of how good the publication is," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith, "there's so much pressure on doctors to taint their studies that any time a drug company has an interest at stake in an article it creates a public concern. You can never overemphasize the need for objective medical reporting, which has such a great impact on such a large population...
...study raises the question of whether children are being prescribed drugs for behavior that in earlier times would have been dismissed as bratty or "kids just being kids." TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith is troubled by the implications of the survey, but he also has scientific concerns about the methodology. "The researchers did a good job of getting a geographically and medically diverse sampling, but we have to be careful and ask ourselves, does this sample represent a microcosm of society?" says Dr. Smith. "Can we extrapolate a national trend from these groups' behaviors?" With these caveats in mind...
...make a phone call, and DiCaprio uses the opportunity to sneak environmental propaganda into the tape recorder. "I shouldn't be eating hamburgers, because the methane gas cows release is the No. 1 contributor to the destruction of the ozone layer; and the No. 1 reason they destroy the rain forest is to make grazing ground for cattle. So it's very ironic that I eat beef, being the environmentalist that I am. But then again, if I ordered the tuna sandwich, I would be promoting the fact that they have large tuna nets that capture innocent little dolphins..." This...
William Safire's vigorously animated historical novel, Scandalmonger (Simon & Schuster: 496 pages; $27), is barely under way when we are made privy to mutual adultery between Alexander Hamilton and the fetching Mrs. Maria Reynolds, a little known contributor to affairs of state during the 1790s...