In this paper published recently in the Harvard Health Policy Review, Dr. Katz offers his perspective on what it will take to turn the tide of epidemic obesity.

Included below are some of Dr. Katz' recent articles, essays, op-eds and columns written for the New York Times Syndicate. Click on the title to read any item of interest. This section will be updated frequently.

2008-07-20 Cooked Up Confusion About Diets & Weight

2008-07-12 Data, Dipped in Chocolate

2008-07-06 Genes, & the Risks of Seeking Risklessness

2008-06-29 Pleasures & Perils of Alcohol: Refining the Balance

2008-06-22 Bariatric Surgery: the Scalpel Cuts Both Ways

2008-06-15 Genes, Choices, & Destiny: the case for Nurturing Nature

2008-06-07 Quackery, In the Eyes of the Beholder

2008-06-01 Obesity Mission Unaccomplished

2008-05-26 Diabetes Prevention: What Lifestyle Can Do

2008-05-18 Public Health: Smoke of a Distant Fire

2008-05-10 Fat Cells: Easy Come, Not So Easy Go

2008-05-03 Remembering Measles

2008-04-27 County Roulette

2008-04-20 Antioxidant Anxieties

2008-04-12 Getting Medical Care that Makes Sense

2008-04-06 Debunking Dietary Dogma

2008-03-30 Bias in Research

2008-03-23 Minding Our Brains

2008-03-16 Know Thyself, to Control Thyself

2008-03-10 Couch Potato (chips)

2008-03-02 Medical Decisions, between Scylla & Charybdis

2008-02-22 Nutrition, on a Need to Know Basis

2008-02-17 Fooled by Flu

2008-02-12 Health Benefits of Caribbean Cruise ?

2008-02-10 Glucose meets Goldilocks: Getting Diabetes Control Just Right

2008-02-03 Not Just Waiting for the World to Change

2008-01-27 Nuts for Health

2008-01-20 Dreams, Genes, & Our Common Humanity

2008-01-13 Disease Prevention: More than the Sum of Parts

2008-01-06 Harm Reduction

2007-12-31 Resolution Reality Check

2007-12-23 Cancer News at Christmas: An Epidemiologic Epiphany

2007-12-15 Evidence, in the Eyes of the Beholder

2007-12-08 Weight of Evidence

2007-12-02 Salt

2007-11-25 Hollow Leg & Hypothalamus

2007-11-18 Fiddlin' With the Farm Bill

2007-11-11 Don't Worry, Be Healthy

2007-11-03 Trials & Tribulations

2007-10-28 Holistic Care

2007-10-21 MRSA

2007-10-15 Fed Up with Bad Diet Advice

2007-10-08 Nutrient Supplements

2007-09-30 Epidemiology over Ideology

2007-09-23 Rationally Rationing Healthcare

2007-09-16 Living: Longer is Good, Better is Better!

2007-09-09 Nutty Benefits of Probiotics

2007-09-03 Rationally Unfattening Ourselves

2007-08-26 Bariatric Surgery: Right Answer, Wrong Question

2007-08-19 Higher Learning, Higher Risks

2007-08-13 Caffeine, Beyond the Buzz

2007-07-28 Bigger Birds: How Obesity Spreads

2007-07-22 Fruits, Veggies, & Cancer

2007-07-15 Sunlight

2007-07-08 Battle of Bulge

2007-06-30 Supervising Supplements

2007-06-24 Diet Drugs

2007-06-17 Kellogg's Spoonful of Restraint

2007-06-11 Obesity be Dammed!

2007-06-10 Enjoying Delightful Weather, Avoiding Frightful Injury

2007-06-03 Boning Up to Beat Osteoporosis

2007-05-27 Avandia, Reconsidered

2007-05-20 Breast Cancer Risks, Avoidable & Otherwise

2007-05-14 Vitamin Fortified Everything...

2007-05-06 Defense Against Dementia

2007-04-29 No Free Lunch

2007-04-22 Fear Itself

2007-04-15 Fat Genes, Fat Chances

2007-04-07 Beating Breast Cancer, In Spite of It All

2007-04-02 Organically Organized

2007-03-25 Chocolate: Dark Truths, White Lies

2007-03-18 Supplemental Reading

2007-03-11 Why Atkins Was Wrong

2007-03-03 Vacillating on Vaccination

2007-02-28 Health-Related Rights & Responsibilities

2007-02-18 Fishing for a Healthy Pregnancy

2007-02-12 Breakthroughs & Balderdash

2007-02-04 Brink of Bingeing

2007-01-27 The Nicotine Hook

2007-01-19 Mundane Medical Marvel

2007-01-15 Overmedicalization

2007-01-09 Letter in Science Times, NY Times: Overmedicalization

2007-01-08 Our Daily Bread: Wheat, Chafe, & Grains of Truth

2007-01-01 Reengineering Your Resolutions

2006-12-25 Hopeful Holiday Homily

2006-12-21 Adopting Chinese Babies: Obese Need Not Apply

2006-12-16 Nannies vs. Ninnies, or Common Ground?

2006-12-10 Avoiding Colds & Flu

2006-12-03 Beyond Mammography

2006-11-25 Putting the Holiday Season Under Your Belt…But Not!

2006-11-17 Food Marketing to Children-The Fox Fixes the Henhouse

2006-11-11 Low Carb Confusion

2006-11-04 Longing for Longevity

2006-10-28 Lung Cancer: Looking for Trouble We Know How to Handle

2006-10-22 The Pros and Cons of Pro- and Anti- Biotics

2006-10-15 A Bone to Pick with Cola?

2006-10-14 Of Trans Fat, and Transgressions

2006-10-08 Lipid Lowering: Diet, Drugs, & Druthers

2006-10-01 Getting the Lead out - to Remove Trans Fat

2006-09-24 Why You Should Eat Those Fruits & Veggies...Anyway

2006-09-17 Germ Warfare We Can’t Outlaw

2006-09-03 For whom the towers toll

2006-08-27 Back To School, Optimally Immunized

2006-08-19 Controlling Childhood Obesity by Following the Leader

2006-08-13 Fat Distractors

2006-08-03 Keeping Your Cool

2006-07-29 Gaming the System

2006-07-23 Syndromic Success

2006-07-16 Small Steps, Great Leaps

2006-07-09 To Sun, or Not to Sun? A midsummer day’s dilemma

2006-07-02 The Basic Care & Feeding of Your Kids

2006-06-24 Holistic Care, Carefully Handled

2006-06-18 The Heart of a Woman

2006-06-11 Preventing Cancer, Admitting Vulnerability...

2006-06-04 Bariatric Surgery: For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls

2006-05-31 Prioritizing Prevention

2006-05-21 WalMart Goes Organic

2006-05-13 Smokers, In From the Cold

2006-05-08 Soda: So long, & so what?

2006-04-29 Strategic Sleep

2006-04-09 Obesity, by any other word...

2006-03-26 Supplements, Suppositions, & Science

2006-03-18 What Lies Ahead

2006-03-10 Why Cancer Happens

2006-03-03 Undoctoring Our Food

2006-02-19 Science, ad absurdum…The sensible case for Health Promotion

2006-02-15 Responsibly Personal Obesity Policy

2006-02-11 Low Fat Diet Falls Down?

2006-01-22 The Art and Science of Looking for Trouble

2006-01-14 Influenza Arms Race - Evolution, in Fast Forward

2006-01-07 Organic Rhyme & Reason

2005-12-24 Family of Man

2005-12-18 Weight Loss Resolution? Add Aptitude to Attitude

2005-12-10 The Fox, the Henhouse, and Chicken Fingers

2005-12-04 Weighing Yourself, and Your Options

2005-10-29 The Obesity Avalanche: Exonerating Snowflakes

2005-09-30 Big Fat Laugh

2005-07-31 Hydrating the Hypo-active

2005-07-22 Feeding bodies like minds... or vice versa

2004-07-22 Obesity: More Like Drowning Than Disease

2004-06-10 Obesity: Not Bad, Just Bad for You

2003-10-18 The 'Blemish' of Obesity: of Birthmark, and Birthright

2003-10-06 The Food Supply, For Dummies