Internal Medicine

Jeff Hanneman of Slayer is Dead

Slayer's social media outlets are reporting that founding member Jeff Hanneman died Thursday morning at 11am, of liver failure. A constant of the band from his first meeting with Kerry King in 1981 until taking his leave from the band in 2011 due to a case of necrotizing fasciitis potentially contra ... More >>

Study: By 2030, Six of Ten Texans Will Be Obese

Quick: What day is it today? If you answered Tuesday or September 18, you're technically right but you're actually very, tragically wrong, because it's National Cheeseburger Day which a) exists and b) is a great opportunity to check out a new burger joint. It's also, perhaps, time to reflect on the ... More >>

Mark Cuban Invests in "Find Me Gluten Free" App

RestaurantNews.com reported last week that Mark Cuban has invested in Find Me Gluten Free, a restaurant search and review app for iPhone and Android users. He stumbled upon this latest venture by way of Naked Pizza, a national chain that serves up healthy pizza on gluten-free crust, which Cuban is a ... More >>

Viva la W

Belo: Against Ice Cream Trucks and Diarrhea. Is There a Pattern Here?

Yesterday we talked about The Dallas Morning News and its editorial campaign against allowing children in poor neighborhoods to have ice cream -- more specifically, their call for tough law enforcement measures against ice cream trucks whose low-quality music systems apparently have been causing dis ... More >>

Spiritualized Frontman Jason Pierce Contemplates Illness and Freedom

Company Cafe's Growing Pains

A rapidly expanding restaurant learns good hands are hard to find.

Neil Hamburger

Saturday, January 14, at Texas Theatre

Conquering Culinary Challenges

Be Aware of Celiac Disease. Just Today Though.

Gluten-free brownies. ​The U.S. Senate has officially declared today National Celiac Disease Awareness Day. So, we all need to stop at some point and think about our annoying friends who can't eat anything because ... OK. OK. You're not annoying. Your disease is annoying. And, honestly, we hat ... More >>

Family of Diabetic Inmate Who Died at Dawson State Jail Sues Private Prison Operator

Pamela Weatherby, who died last July​Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman -- and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an "unstable insulin dependent diabetic" -- was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her pa ... More >>

Have You Seen the Muffin, Man?

​"Cupcakes will be out and muffins will be in," a Central Market spokeswoman promised me in a recent e-mail heralding the grocery store's newest line of baked goods. "You heard it here first!" I'm all for dethroning cupcakes, but haven't muffins already had their moment? Even if Central Marke ... More >>

At City Hall, Dr. Kenneth Cooper Declares the Health of Dallas Children a "Disaster"

Kenneth Cooper at Dallas City Hall this morning​For a good hour or so this morning, there was a parade of people to the briefing-room podium at Dallas City Hall to discuss the Mayor's Youth Fitness Initiative, funded with $1 million worth of seed money from Oncor. Among those on hand: Mike Rawling ... More >>

Subway Tests a Gluten-Free Sandwich in Dallas

​Customers at Dallas area Subway restaurants will soon be able to ask their sandwich artists to hold the gluten. According to a release published on Celiac.com, billed as the "first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease," Subway plans to test a gluten-free roll and gluten-fr ... More >>

Beers Of The Year

Don't criticize it.​Overall, it's been another great year for beer, at least from my perspective here in North Texas. If I didn't suspect reader list burnout, I could probably do another top 10 piece on the best developments of the past year, and even another on things I'm most looking forward to ... More >>

Mayor Tom, Prominent Doctors and the Great Cliff Harris All Come Together To Fight Diabetes

Photos by Andrea GrimesDallas Cowboy football legend Cliff Harris came to hear Mayor Leppert and crew call for participants in a new diabetes study at UT-Southwestern.​Mayor Tom Leppert and wife Laura, representatives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, city council member Delia Jasso, ... More >>

Trendsetters: Five Foods and Drinks That Had (Mostly) a Good Year

Man, we are so sick of eating all that kamut.​2010 was supposed to be kamut's year. Industry watchers in 2009 predicted the wheat-like grain associated with King Tut would ride a celiac wave to greatness this year, sharing American pantries with papadum and coconut-milk pancake mix. The big n ... More >>

Five Bestsellers From Tajmahal Imports

Tadoor dal (pigeon peas)​Go on in. Don't be shy. If you're not sure what's what inside Tajmahal Imports, the all-vegetarian Indian grocery at 501 W. Beltline in Richardson, ask for Mr. Shah. That's Pramod Shah, the owner of this expansive food, spice, knickknack, religious statuary and cookwar ... More >>

Gearing Up For The Tour De Cure

Gig Alert: See Angie Stone Perform For Free Tomorrow Afternoon

​Neo-soul R&B queen Angie Stone released her most recent album Unexpected to unsurprising positive feedback in 2009. The real surprise? Stone's performing in Dallas tomorrow for free. The new Diabetes Health & Wellness Institute on Spring Avenue will open tomorrow (Saturday, June 19), and ... More >>

MartyB Can't Even Get a Second Grader to Throw Him the Ball, But Mayor Tom Will!

Photos by Sam MertenEight-year-old Kendall Tubbs, a second grader who's had type 1 diabetes since she was 3 years old, managed to upstage appearances by Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus "MartyB" Bennett and former Heisman Trophy winner and Woodrow Wilson High School grad Tim Brown at this morning' ... More >>

Eat What They Want You To Eat

The old progressives made us dump liquor. The new ones want us to heed their diet demands.​Now, you all know I'm the kindhearted, gentle sort, right? That I would never write anything harsh about mindless poseurs ordering dirty martinis or suggest a certain rank dish should be dumped over the offe ... More >>

Fear The Cookie Dough

Delfi's World [In Focus], via FlickrA couple of notable news items came across the desk this weekend while you were out grillin' with Dad. Time to play catch up:Last Friday, June 19th, Nestle USA announced a voluntary recall of nearly four dozen Toll House refrigerated dough products. The action ... More >>

Which End Is Up?

Think about this when you dine at Dallas' better restaurants.A couple good things have come out of the recession, when you stop and think about it. Some of the high end restaurants trimmed their prices, for one thing. Prix Fixe menus have become the rage. Places like Blue Collar Bar and Kent Rathb ... More >>

Today In Music News: Russell Simmons Loves Yoga, Ryan Adams Gets Hitched, Prince Hits Tonight and Brett Michaels Gives Us All Diabetes.

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 12, 2009... Remember Ashley Dupree, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's former call girl? Looks like she's found a new mentor in hip-hop icon Russell Simmons. It seems he's been "reaching out" to her in their yoga class. You know ... More >>

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

Against a Dream Team Like This, Diabetes Doesn't Stand a Chance

Tom Leppert Has "Celebrity Appeal." So Does Terrell Owens, Incidentally.

Dripping with Optimism

How Would Jesus Eat?

The Great Mustachio

Fatty Claus

Gravity Kills

Take a run in the buff

Not Sweet News

Prisoners of Funny

Escape to the Pocket Sandwich Theatre

Raising Arizona

Health Class

Central Dallas Ministries documents diabetes among the undocumented

Interpol

Friday, September 9, at Nokia Theatre

Life, Death and Money

Will Texas pony up bucks to lead in stem cell research? Pro-lifers hope not.

Knocking Noggin

What is eggnog?

Best Place To Get Real Mozzarella

The Mozzarella Company

Slaughterhouse Jive

Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

Letters

Animal Farm, Police Story, All That Jazz

Best muffaletta

Crescent City Café,

The children's hour

Madeline steps gracefully from storybook to screen

Getting fat off non-fat

A fat substitute with some unpleasant potential side effects pits junk food against junk science

Dog's best buddy

Magical mystery tour

Peploe's potion mixes all the right ingredients

Neander-Guy

Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too