Have a Lap-Band? Interested in LapBand surgery? Join Dr. Terry Simpson in Phoenix, as he helps you begin your weight loss journey with the Lapband. Its’ not just weight loss surgery – but a total lifestyle change! Event held in Phoenix quarterly.
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Changing your diet is not easy. Unhealthy food habits don’t happen overnight, and breaking bad habits takes a sensible approach. One helpful strategy is to make small changes, repeatedly, when and where you can. Try substituting foods that are high in calories with low-cal alternatives.
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Flu vaccines will be made faster, and more specific in the future. The new approved Flublock will also have less “preservatives” than the current vaccine. Vaccination is still far superior to supplements, vitamins, tam-flu, or any other “product” out there.
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Coca-cola is joining in the fight against obesity. While the company has done some great things around the world, this fight is disingenuous at best. The marketing of free-fructose in large quantities is responsible for a great deal of the obesity epidemic in this, and other countries.
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My friend Robert Irvine wondered what kind of sandwich would remind us of him? So- heading to the kitchen we came up with something that reminds us of Robert. Since he is a Brit, the first thing that came to mind was fish and chips…but we got more creative than that.
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You don’t have the 24 hour flu – you have been poisoned by food. Here is how to protect yourself – and by the way, cooking something to death is not the way to do it – pink is ok.
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The single best thing you can do to lose weight is to learn to cook. Appreciate great food, develop a palate, and this will change your life. In my weight loss surgery practice I spend more time teaching my patients to cook then I do operating on them. But there is cooking and there is eating, so hand-in-hand with the cooking is learning to eat smaller portions, of great tasting food.
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There is an epidemic of gun violence against children in the United States. Children are killed by guns at the equivalent of two Newton shootings a week. I couldn’t take kids dying in my ER from this- and I am hoping all sides will come together and help end this senseless violence.
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MSG – is not the culprit in “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and is an important ingredient in foods, and our biochemistry. Despite concerns raised by early reports, decades of research have failed to demonstrate a clear and consistent relationship between MSG ingestion and the development of health conditions.
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