Tag Archives: Eating

The Case for Eating Bugs

How would you react if you were dining out and found a cricket in your soup? Would you feel the same if cricket soup were on the menu? In a recent article, Marie Boyd of the University of South Carolina … Continue reading

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Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Way to Hasten Death as an End-of-Life Option

Carla Calogero has an important article in the spring 2018 Newsletter of the Washington State Bar Association Real Property Probate & Trust section: Voluntary Stopping Eating and  Drinking: A Way to Hasten Death  as an End-of-Life Option." Cologero explains why estate … Continue reading

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Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking is Legal—And Ethical—For Terminally Ill Patients Looking to Hasten Death

he ASCO Post, in partnership with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), communicates news of evidence-based multidisciplinary cancer care to a broad audience of 30,000 oncology professionals and ASCO members.  Professor Pope authors a monthly Law and Ethics in … Continue reading

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How Eating Disorders Should Influence OB-GYN Care: ACOG’s New Committee Opinion

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently published a committee opinion discussing necessary precautions for patients who may have eating disorders. Eating disorders encompass a wide range of conditions in which a person has abnormal feeding habits; often, … Continue reading

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Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Practical Approach for Long-Term Care Facilities

David Gruenwald has just published "Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Practical Approach for Long-Term Care Facilities" in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. "Some residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities with lethal or serious chronic illnesses may express a wish to … Continue reading

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