Is Fatty Liver from Fat or Carbs
Fatty liver disease is becoming endemic. The cause is excess saturated fat in the diet combined with excess calories.
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Taste Buds: In Your Tongue & Gut – Cats Can’t Taste Sweets
Taste buds are not just found in the tongue, but throughout the entire GI tract, and even the lung! Taste buds throughout our body don’t all function to provide a sense of taste but are used to trigger other reactions. In the tongue, they provide a sense of taste that drives us to seek some foods and to avoid others.
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Timing of Meals Affects Weight Loss
Eating your main meal before 3 pm can meal much more weight loss than people who eat later in the day. Now confirmed by two studies, and our own patients – when you eat is important.
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Deer Antler Spray: It Does Not Work
Deer Antler Spray is in the news these days- bottom line, like most “medicine” that isn’t regulated, Deer Antler Spray has no effect beyond placebo, does not contain banned substances. If the athletes should be punished, they should be sent to learn some critical thinking instead of sat out for part of a season.
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Food Can’t Cure You: It Can Kill You
There is a silly idea that food can cure you- it can kill you- but won’t cure heart disease or cancer, or the like. Here is why eating diets rich in micronutrients works, but taking supplements may be a waste of your money, and even your health.
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Weight Loss Fest: LapBand Support and More
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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Substitute for Pasta: Healthier With Less Calories
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 Vaccine: Better Ones Coming: But Get Vaccinated
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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Coke and Obesity- What the Body Does with The Calories
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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