Culinary Medicine

Halloween Doesnt Have to Mean Weight Gain

If you are set on buying some candy for the kids be sure to choose those that you don’t like. That way, when trick-or-treating is over, those leftover candies, don’t make it to your waist line. The holidays don’t have to be an excuse for over eating.

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Fast Foods are Fast Calories

Tempted to go to the fast food counter for some quick dinner? Don’t.

Recently on daytime television I had the opportunity to create a very healthy, tasty recipe with co-host Lindsay MacDonald. We put together a simple recipe for Halibut that will take you less than 15 minutes to make.

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Get the H1N1 Vaccine

The exact numbers of death is difficult to determine- some say 25 million in the first 25 weeks (the population of the earth at this time was estimated to be one billion people) — and the estimates of fatalities go up from there.

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How The LAP-BAND Works

Diets don’t work. Diets are based on a simple formula – eat less and you lose weight, but when you get off the diet, more often than not, you regain the weight and even more.

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Specialty Surgical Hospital

We have invited other weight loss surgeons to the facility, and we are going to become the major weight loss center in Arizona, already doing more LAP-BAND surgeries than any other facility in the Arizona.

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The LAP-BAND and Diabetes

In this study there were two groups of individuals: one group had “conventional diabetes therapy with a focus on weight loss by lifestyle change.” This group did not do as well as the patients who underwent laparoscopic adjustable laparoscopic banding (LAP-BAND).

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The LAP-BAND and Sexual Function

Weight loss is the best investment a person can make. It is the only investment that allows you to improve the quality of life as well as the quantity of life.

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It Doesn’t Restrict Your Appetite

Some people think that the LAP-BAND works by “restricting” the amount you can eat. They ask, “How big is that little pouch above the stomach?” That is not how the LAP-BAND works. The pouch is small, but that is just a transition zone – food stays in that upper pouch only a couple of minutes, then passes through to the rest of the stomach.

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The Acai Berry

Acai berry is the latest craze to cure everything with magic anti-oxidant powers. So much so that Americans spent over $108 million last year for this product.

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