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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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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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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The myth that increasing the number of people with insurance will add to healthcare costs has been disproven by the award winning care given by SouthCentral Foundation.
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Breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day – it is simply a meal. It won’t “jumpstart” your metabolism, and if you eat too much, or the wrong thing, you still have to burn those calories. I like a healthy smoothie for breakfast, or some reindeer sausage. If you have breakfast, don’t eat cereal with high fructose corn syrup, don’t drink coffee with free sugar
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Fructose, refined sugar, is biochemically not the same as found in nature, and its effect on the human body are devastating. One need to only look at the world wide epidemic of obesity and fructose consumption to see it. Here is the nitty gritty behind this deady product, and what you can do about it.
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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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Two new drugs have been approved by the FDA for weight loss, but with very limited indications, and without knowing the long-term effect of these drugs on the heart. The drugs, Belviq and Qsymia have warnings and side effects.
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Prostate cancer now has a new weapon- waiting. Prostate cancer that is confined to the prostate, and is small may be best observed as opposed to removed with radical surgery.
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