Timing of Meals Affects Weight Loss
Eating your main meal before 3 pm can meal much more weight loss than people who eat later in the day. Now confirmed by two studies, and our own patients – when you eat is important.
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Losing Weight and Keeping it Off
The single best thing you can do to lose weight is to learn to cook. Appreciate great food, develop a palate, and this will change your life. In my weight loss surgery practice I spend more time teaching my patients to cook then I do operating on them. But there is cooking and there is eating, so hand-in-hand with the cooking is learning to eat smaller portions, of great tasting food.
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Baked Chicken Breasts – Simple
A simple baked chicken recipe that has minimal calories but tastes delicious is quick and easy. Here is step by step instructions as well as a video to prove it.
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Myth: Doctors Aren’t Taught Much Nutrition
There is a common myth that physicians are not taught much nutrition in medical school. Often this is stated by people who have never been to medical school, and where they received their information- who knows.
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HDL – the Good Cholesterol Isn’t Good
The Good cholesterol isn’t good, but the bad cholesterol is still bad. HDL is a marker, but not a cause, for individuals who have better heart health, but raising HDL does not decrease the incidence of heart disease. The good news: under your doctors directions – you probably don’t need the niacin or the fish oil – but still eat fish
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Vegan Activism
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine seems to play a bit loose with the facts about nutrition. This organization is less about research and evidenced based medicine, and far more about an agenda or advocacy.
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The China Study – Part 1
Part one of our review of The China Study. Examining how Dr. Campbell’s views about animal proteins cause cancer. While many vegetarians use The China Study as the basis for their belief, we might have to shake a few beliefs by examining the basis for his beliefs using modern science and a skeptical eye.
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Red Meat and Early Mortality
Does red meat increase your mortality? According to the recent report it does- but when you analyze that report, you find that correlation does not equal causation, and here are just a few major flaws with that study.
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Paleolithic Diet: Old Genes to Fit in Jeans
Did our guts evolve in the Paleolithic era so that to avoid modern disease we should eat like a caveman? Does our genetic code have the answer to fit into those slim jeans? Or is this just another low-carb fad diet. Well, there are some good points, and here is the skinny
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