The United States produces more GM crops than any other country and account for about 90% of the cotton, corn, and soy beans planted in the US. Are we growing Frankenfoods – an evil chimera grown from laboratory manipulation of the DNA that can spread, or are these foods the savior of the planet. The answer is neither – and the debate is between two groups who cannot speak the same language or to each other
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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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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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They want you to think that vegetables turn off cancer genes – that if you get cancer you are not vegan enough. Here is the story of a lifelong vegetarian/vegan who will tell you that vegetables didn’t turned off the most deadly cancer progression of all. Someone who is the longest survivor of pancreatic cancer- and the one thing that changed — bacon
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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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There is a silly idea that food can cure you- it can kill you- but won’t cure heart disease or cancer, or the like. Here is why eating diets rich in micronutrients works, but taking supplements may be a waste of your money, and even your health.
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You don’t have the 24 hour flu – you have been poisoned by food. Here is how to protect yourself – and by the way, cooking something to death is not the way to do it – pink is ok.
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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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Kids, candy, and hyperactivity – there is no relationship. It may be the expectation that there is one that has more to do with the kids and parents reaction, but it isn’t the candy, or the sweeteners, or the artificial coloring. Still, it is important to monitor what your kids eat, and help them make healthy selections.
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