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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Coke and Obesity- What the Body Does with The Calories
Coca-cola is joining in the fight against obesity. While the company has done some great things around the world, this fight is disingenuous at best. The marketing of free-fructose in large quantities is responsible for a great deal of the obesity epidemic in this, and other countries.
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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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Parents Wildly Underestimate Children’s Calorie Intake
At the Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, researchers shared that parents underestimate the calories in their children’s fast food meals. The study involved 330 children. Kids consume approximately 7 trillion calories per year on sugary beverages.
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Simple Tips to Age Well
Science agrees on a few simple things to help prevent old age from becoming senile old age. Here are a few tips that all of us in medicine agree on- and it just so happens my 87 year old dad and 83 year old mom practice them.
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HCG Diet- FDA Bans- Finally
The FDA finally banned HCG as a weight loss routine. This isn’t the first time the FDA and FTC have taken action against this program- but hopefully it will be the last time.
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The Beer Diet Results
Not only did Evo beat all expectations in terms of weight loss, but his levels of triglycerides and his cholesterol decreased dramatically without an increase in liver enzymes. Evo did better than someone on the famous Ornish diet would have done. What does this tell us?
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Soda and Artificial Sweeteners
When people come to me for weight loss surgery they tell me they are “addicted” to “soda.” They add – but I use “diet soda.” They need to get off the diet soda, because if they do not, they will not lose the weight that they should.
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Sodas, Food Stamps, and Obesity
You can purchase soda with food stamps – which means, the government is paying for obesity – and when New York tried to get an exemption, they were denied.
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