Tuna Fish
Finding great food products is a joy – but finding a canned tuna fish from a company that cares is amazing.
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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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Seven Reasons Obesity is a Disease
7 reasons why obesity is a disease – dismissing the arguments against The American Medical Association (AMA) who have officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could encourage physicians to pay more attention to the importance of addressing obesity.
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Eggs and Beer Diet v. Smoothie Diet
Two diets: one a smoothie diet, and the other eggs and beer. Who would lose the most weight over a month, and would the cholesterol improve or get worse? Here are the answers.
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Hospital Cafeterias: they should be a Place of Healing
A hospital cafeteria should not peddle junk food. A hospital cafeteria should be a place of healing and rehabilitation. It is time to change how hospitals view their cafeteria – it should be viewed as a place to teach patients to be healthy by teaching them how t and what to cook.
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Governor Christie Gets the Lap-Band: Our Concerns
The governor of New Jersey had a Lap-Band installed in February and has already lost 40 pounds- which is a little over 10 pounds a month. He had the band installed by a great surgeon, Dr. George Fielding, who himself has a Lap-Band Of all the weight loss operations, the Lap-Band is the least invasive.
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The Bad Fat isn’t Bad and the Good Fat isn’t Good
President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.
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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul
Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.
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