Although this SUGAR SHOCK! Blog focuses primarily on the dangers of sugars and refined carbs and related subjects such as obesity and diabetes, I’m always intrigued when I find some evidently well-researched health blogs from seemingly reliable sources.
So today, thanks to the Public Health Advocacy Institute‘s blog, I followed some links to several cool blogs, about which I was previously unaware. Thought you’d enjoy the fruits of my clicking away. Check out:
- Effect Measure from "Cervantes" and "Revere." Their description is enough to intrigue you (well, me at least!): "In epidemiology an effect is the endpoint of a causal mechanism. An effect measure is an estimate of the influence of a particular factor on a population’s health. The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Their names would be immediately recognizable to many in the public health community. They prefer to keep their online and public lives separate to allow maximum freedom of expression. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts ‘Revere’ to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things." From this blog, I found a number of other interesting ones:
- Code Blue Blog from "an M.D. holding defibrillator paddles at the emergency CPR of American health care." Winner of the 2004 Medical Blog Awards "Best Clinical Sciences Medical Weblog." (See the interesting three-part series about "Mammographic Serfdom.")
- Healthmonger – "a student led public health blog." From 8 graduate students in public-health related fields. Described as "the first concrete offspring of the Defining the Future of Public Health progressive student summit that was held at the Boston University School of Public Health in April of 2005." (See "A Hippocratic Oath for Public Health.")
- The Rest of the Story Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary. From Michael Siegel, a professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. (Read the horrifying post, "New Study Finds Popular Kids More Likely to Start Smoking,")