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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.

Cell Phones Can Kill You

The real danger of cell phones is from driving. There is a positive increase in accidents that have been attributed to the use of cell phones while driving. Many states and cities have passed laws that require cell phone users to have an earpiece.

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Pork: Medium-Rare Please

Pork is best when served medium rare. When pork is over-cooked it is too dry, and loses its flavor and consistency. This is good news for foodies everywhere (of course, most of us have been cooking pork on the rare to medium rare side all along).

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Being Ill on An Airplane

If you do become ill while traveling, and are tended to by a physician, even if it is for dehydration – take their card and send them a follow up note and a thank you. We don’t expect or want payment for our services, but we always like knowing how things turn out and how people are doing.

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Small Changes to Your Diet Equal Big Results

Making changes in what you eat on a day-by-day basis can make a profound difference over time about how you eat.

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Making Simple Changes To Your Diet

Trading up to better food, to better quality food, means that you can enjoy life more. It gives you a chance to incorporate some of the micro-nutrients that you might be missing. Ultimately you are empowering yourself for your own health.

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Good For Your Health: Smoothies

Smoothies are healthy snacks or can be enjoyed for breakfast. They allows me to pack in some healthy components, like whey protein, fiber, or flaxseed. My strawberry smoothie recipe is included.

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More Reasons to Lose Weight

A recent study found that erectile function, sexual desire, and urinary symptoms improved significantly for all the participants, who lost on average 5 to 10 percent of their body weight over the 8 weeks.

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On a Personal Note

Being a doctor means you have insight into people they don’t have. It means sometimes spending nights up worrying about them, or with them. It means knowing what the end will be, and it means sometimes you see it before they do.

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In The Kitchen: Sous Vide Chicken

Chicken Sous Vide. The best chicken bar none is prepare using Sous Vide. After years of eating chicken prepared every which way, buttermilk fried in the South, to baked in the North; from chicken made by great Italian chefs, great deli chefs, and Native Americans, Sous Vide cooking trumps them.

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