Culinary Medicine

Governor Christie Gets the Lap-Band: Our Concerns

The governor of New Jersey had a Lap-Band installed in February and has already lost 40 pounds- which is a little over 10 pounds a month. He had the band installed by a great surgeon, Dr. George Fielding, who himself has a Lap-Band Of all the weight loss operations, the Lap-Band is the least invasive.

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GMO : They’re Not What You’ve Been Told

First in a series about Genetically Modified Organisms. In this part we show how we have been genetic modifications of corn was done thousands of years ago, and only recently started in the United States.

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Perfect Easter Ham – Pink Pork is Best

Making the traditional ham for the first time this year? Which ham do you buy? How much ham do you get? How long to bake it? For a great ham, here are some suggestions that include not following the instructions on the ham. But trust me – you will have a moist, delicious ham that will be safe and delicious to eat. United States do not have trichina- so one thing less to worry about

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Doctor Looking for His Own Doctor: We Know too Much About What We Look For

The problem with being a doctor, and a skeptic, is when we look for our own physician, we go through a lot of anxiety. You think it is tough, imagine if you evaluate a slick practice and realize it is all style and no substance. Imagine having a real problem and knowing that these people may not help you.

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The Bad Fat isn’t Bad and the Good Fat isn’t Good

President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.

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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul

Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.

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The Fast Diet: Eat 5 Fast 2

The Fast Diet is taking the world by storm. From Britain, this simple diet promises what everyone wants to hear: “Eat what you want, then eat light for two days and watch the pounds drop.” Is it real? Can you expect to lose weight this way?

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Gerson Nutritional Therapy, Scams and Pseudoscience

What happens when a person with a cancer that can be cured, opts for “nutritional” therapy instead? Here is a story of someone who went to Gerson Clinic, the same one that Steve McQueen, Pat Paulson, and a host of others went to. And what happened to the family after finding out that “natural is better” was simply an excuse to be intellectually lazy.

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Bacon Cures Cancer

They want you to think that vegetables turn off cancer genes – that if you get cancer you are not vegan enough. Here is the story of a lifelong vegetarian/vegan who will tell you that vegetables didn’t turned off the most deadly cancer progression of all. Someone who is the longest survivor of pancreatic cancer- and the one thing that changed — bacon

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