Goat milk latte

Healthy Splurges: Farm-Fresh Goat-Milk Lattes

Coffee Bars might want to skip the $20,000 machines and buy a goat Read…

The Jungle Effect

“In this bracingly hopeful and eminently practical book, Daphne Miller shows us how we can bring the wisdom of traditional diets to our own plates, in the interest of both our health and our pleasure. The Jungle Effect is a fascinating, useful and important book.”
Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food
“This fascinating, well researched book explores the health benefits of traditional diets from Iceland to Cameroon. The benefits include reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression.”
The Miami Herald

“Presents us with a unique travelogue of healthy eating.”
Gail Altschuler, MD, Medical Director, The Altschuler Clinic, A Center for Weight Loss & Wellness

“The Jungle Effect was such an enjoyable read that I almost forgot I was being fed a steady dose of valuable nutrition advice, advice that combines the wisdom of our ancestors with the latest nutrition research.”
Bradley J. Willcox, MD, co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Okinawa Program and Clinician-Scientist, Pacific Health Research Institute, University of Hawaii

“Miller’s work is consistently informative and educational. Each “cold spot” is accompanied by a specific regimen, and Miller’s practical advice and recipes are all geared for the novice. Anyone unafraid of modifying their diet will find this anthropological diet guide useful.”
Publishers Weekly, April 28 2008

Integrative Women’s Health, Edited by Victoria Maizes and Tieraona Low Dog

Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women’s Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care. Read.

“Mommydoc” In: This Side of Doctoring. Editor, Eliza Lo Chin

Any woman contemplating a career as a physician or already working in the profession will gain a good deal of insight from this collection of personal essays and poems by female physicians over the last century and a half.

Sexual satisfaction is a complex process that vexes many women and their doctors

THE AGING WELL ISSUE

My patient Debra practically waltzes into my office. She is giggling and barely waits for the door to close before she announces: “I am having sex again and really enjoying it. Not only that, but I’m actually having random lusty thoughts.”

A Recipe for Passover

Our ancestors had better eating habits than we do — that seems to be the current thinking. But anyone who is sitting down to a Passover meal — a major holiday feast that begins this evening — might wonder whether traditional European Jewish cooking is an exception to the rule.

Take a hike and call me in the morning

“I have a StairMaster right in my own basement, but honestly it’s been there for years gathering dust and making me feel guilty,” said Miriam, one of my patients. “It wasn’t until I started walking the three-mile trail in the park near my house that I got serious about exercising. I do it now rain or shine. I love the fresh air. The best part is that I get a great workout and don’t even mind sweating.”