Advanced Mediterranean Diet

…according to a preliminary report at MedPageToday. The drug is lisdexamfetamine dimesylate, sold in the U.S. as Vyvanse. From the article:

Binge eating disorder is now officially recognized in psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, with its inclusion in the newly released fifth edition of the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5. But patients experiencing periodic urges to eat large quantities of food even when not particularly hungry, and who suffer guilt and self-loathing afterward, have been coming to psychiatrists for many years.

It’s a struggle to keep your fitness up, much less improve it, as you age. But it’s worth it. See MedPageToday.

I don’t buy it. Sounds like the shrinks or drug pushers are trying to drum up business. Details at MedPageToday.

I thought we already knew that. MedPageToday has the details.

That’s the eye-grabbing headline at MedPageToday. Just what you want to hear at the start of swimming season in the northern hemisphere. A snippet from the article:

An editorial note said that each person carries an average of 0.14 grams of fecal material on his body and a pre-swim shower could decrease, if not eliminate, the chances of contaminating the water.

The article talks about swimmers with diarrhea. I wonder about young children who, like honey badger, just don’t give a care.

See details at Reason.com.

He told the New York Post he had lap band gastric surgery.  I wish he’d tried my Advanced Mediterranean Diet first. In any case, good luck to him. The highest risk period is over. Many bariatric surgery patients, however, need additional operations. Even a one or two years after surgery, most of them are still obese.

The Atlantic has more extensive reportage.