Articles by Dr Simpson

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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This Week in Medicine: Summary of Top News Studies

John’s Hopkins removed hands free faucets after finding an increased incidence in the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires disease in over half the faucets. In other news, the CDC released data showing that between 2001 and 2008 there were 233 cases of tetanus, and a death rate of 13.2 percent.

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Asparagus Is In Season – Here’s How You Cook It

Some health benefits of asparagus: 1) about half a dozen contain 50% the daily recommended dose of folate; 2) contains rutin, which may be an anti-inflammatory useful in fighting plaque in blood vessels; 3) contains some amino acids – which form the basis for proteins; 4) contains glutathione, cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine.

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Food and Radiation- What You Need to Know

In foods, radiation is used to destroy or inactivate bugs that can cause spoilage or decomposition – allowing the food to have a longer shelf life. However, the source of radiation is removed and the foods have no residual radioactivity

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Don’t Take Iodine

There will be detectable radioactivity from Japan, however it will be in amounts so small that they will be less than the amount of radiation you would get sunning yourself on a typical day.

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