Culinary Medicine

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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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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