Aaron Carroll

Aaron Carroll appears in the following:

Can Our Hospitals Handle This?

Friday, March 13, 2020

Aaron E. Carroll, who analyzes health issues for The New York Times’s The Upshot, explains how America's health care system was not designed to handle a pandemic. 

What You Eat Is More Important Than How You Work Out

Friday, June 19, 2015

"You are what you eat" trumps "you are what you lift" when it comes to health and dieting.

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Hot Drinks on Hot Days to Cool Off?

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Can hot drinks actually cool you off in hot weather? Following up on a Brian Lehrer Show conversation that started yesterday about ways to cool off in the heat, Aaron Carroll, director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and co-author of Don’t Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health, talks about whether there's any truth behind the suggestion to drink hot drinks in hot weather to cool off.

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DIY Checkup: Taking Control of Our Health

Monday, June 14, 2010

What does "healthy" mean in America today? From trendy diets to calorie-burning shoes, we get so many confusing messages about what we need to do to be healthy that we lose sight of the goal. Maybe it's time to reconsider how we define health.

What does healthy mean to you? When it comes to maintaining your health, what works for you?

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Everything You Know About Health Is Wrong

Friday, August 14, 2009

Should you wait an hour after eating before swimming? Do you lose most of your body heat through your head? Will lifting something heavy give you a hernia? Dr. Aaron Carroll, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism at the

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Everything You Know About Health Is Wrong

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Should you wait an hour after eating before swimming? Do you lose most of your body heat through your head? Will lifting something heavy give you a hernia? Dr. Aaron Carroll, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism at the

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