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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Substitute for Pasta: Healthier With Less Calories
Changing your diet is not easy. Unhealthy food habits don’t happen overnight, and breaking bad habits takes a sensible approach. One helpful strategy is to make small changes, repeatedly, when and where you can. Try substituting foods that are high in calories with low-cal alternatives.
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Flu Vaccine: Better Ones Coming: But Get Vaccinated
Flu vaccines will be made faster, and more specific in the future. The new approved Flublock will also have less “preservatives” than the current vaccine. Vaccination is still far superior to supplements, vitamins, tam-flu, or any other “product” out there.
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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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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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MSG: Does Chinese Restaurant Syndrome Exist?
MSG – is not the culprit in “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and is an important ingredient in foods, and our biochemistry. Despite concerns raised by early reports, decades of research have failed to demonstrate a clear and consistent relationship between MSG ingestion and the development of health conditions.
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Salads: The Myths
Salads are the enemy of weight loss. But do you know why? The salad dressing sabotages the salad, with most dressings containing over 100 calories per tablespoon. A McDonald’s hamburger has about half the calories of your average restaurant salad.
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Myth: Candy Makes Your Kids Hyper
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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