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You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.

Physician Shortage in the U.S.: Increasing Wait Times

The shortage of American doctors has arrived, and it is becoming critical. There are more physicians who are retiring than we are training, and fewer people are entering medical school as a profession.

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Just Say No to Halloween Candy

The hardest candy for most are the “half way” pieces. The “bite size” bits of a Snicker’s bar, or Butterfinger. Did you know that to exercise off those two bite size bars would take an HOUR?

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Do Vitamins Reduce Cancer Risk

While the recent study about older physicians taking multivitamins showed a small reduction in cancer, the effect was modest. Here is a review of the major studies about vitamins and what they have shown.

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Parents Wildly Underestimate Children’s Calorie Intake

At the Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, researchers shared that parents underestimate the calories in their children’s fast food meals. The study involved 330 children. Kids consume approximately 7 trillion calories per year on sugary beverages.

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Baked Chicken Breasts – Simple

A simple baked chicken recipe that has minimal calories but tastes delicious is quick and easy. Here is step by step instructions as well as a video to prove it.

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BPA and Obesity

A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA

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Acupuncture: It Still Doesn’t Work

In spite of a recent study about acupuncture, it does not overcome the bias of the person performing the acupuncture, or the placebo effect. Acupuncture is attempting to find a place in chronic pain, where treatments don’t work well- but cannot find a place in acute pain- such as that caused by an acute injury.

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Organic Food: Better or Worse? A Foodies View

Latest update: organic fruit isn’t any better — yawn. Sorry, we foodies knew this years ago- but there is something more important than organic, fresh.

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Calorie Restriction to Combat Aging

Some people eat less in an attempt to live longer- based on studies done with rats, mice, fruitflies- well, turns out that the data doesn’t fit, and eating less doesn’t allow you to live longer.

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