eating healthy

Spending Time with Patients

A lady who had too many medicines prescribed, and not enough time given by her physician. Taking time with patients is that – it takes time. In this case, the intervention saved this patient and the health care system dollars.

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GMO: Part 2 – The Promise, the Fear, Labeling, Frankenfoods

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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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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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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Bacon Cures Cancer

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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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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Food Can’t Cure You: It Can Kill You

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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24 Hour Flu Does Not Exist: Its Food Poisoning

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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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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