Articles by Dr Simpson

Eating Your Daily Calories at One Meal

With Thanksgiving comes the habit of eating all the calories at one meal. Some people do this even when it’s not a holiday. They will eat nothing for breakfast, have minimal for lunch, then have several thousand calories for supper. When the body is given excess calories – it stores them. Storage is done in fat.

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Thanksgiving Holiday Tips

Think of your body as needing fuel, and if you put in excess fuel it will store it as fat. So plan the times you will have your snack. This also means do not have huge meals between.

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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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Get the Books

Losing the Last 30lbs Have you been on a Diet roller coaster? Atkins, Weight-Watchers, Jenny Craig, South Beach, Zone, Sonoma…they all tell you to do different things. But, some things they tell you are the same? Some things they tell you are REALLY bad for your health; you can hurt yourself. Health is the most…

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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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