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Losing Weight with Apps

Losing Weight With Apps Can a phone app help you lose weight? How about with your cholesterol, blood pressure, or waist size? Perhaps you’ve heard the latest Noom ads, where they boast forty publications showing that their app will help you lose weight. Apple is coming out with more ways to have their new watch…

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Mediterranean Diet After Weight Loss Surgery

Patients who adopted a Mediterranean Diet following weight loss surgery had better weight loss than those who adopted other plans. The more adherent to the Mediterranean Diet, the better long-term results after surgery. Regardless of the type of surgery.

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Keto Cons

A number of years ago I published a book “Losing the last 30 lbs: fundamentals of weight loss.” This is an excerpt from that book about “diets” and why it is that they fail. Hope you enjoy the humor…

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5 of the Biggest Weight Loss Myths

Here are five myths about weight loss. You think Peanut Butter and yogurt are good? You think potatoes are bad? Think again. Dr. Terry Simpson debunks 5 of the biggest myths about losing weight.

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Timing of Meals: Cure for Obesity?

Does when you eat affect your weight gain? It does in mice- apparently if mice are restricted to eating over 12 hours they don’t gain the weight of mice that eat the same amount over a longer period of time. How can this help you? Well, if you are a mouse….

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Eat Big But Small

Eat big nutritious meals, but small on calorie dense foods. Don’t deny yourself, and see what you come up with. Follow the biology rules for appetite, and you will be able to Eat big, but small.

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Beer and Sausage Diet: Update

For three consecutive years, every October marks the month of the Beer and Sausage diet for my friend Evo Terra. Believe it or not, each year he loses weight, his cholesterol improves, and he has had no negative side effects other than needing new clothes. Learn why this unconventional diet works while other don’t.

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Calorie Myths

Should we throw out the whole calorie theory? Here are some six common myths about calories. Also included are five simple rules for eating healthy, and maintaining a healthy weight.

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Obesity and Patients

Weight loss is more than calories in and calories out. Obesity is a disease that we don’t know the answers to. More important – we need to treat obesity with compassion, because it is not the fault of the patient whose metabolism alters their body.

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