Lap-Band’s website has started to remove surgeon’s names who have not provided the after-care and support that is needed for the weight loss operation. They also are starting an effort to direct patients who are having difficulty to surgeons who are interested in the band, and not just removing it.
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Surgeons today are the modern priests of days gone by. We have our own holy garments, we purify our hands, we prepare. We are humbled by the body, because even the best of medicine, the best of preparation, the most careful handling of our patient’s tissues may not be enough.
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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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When organic farming began it was a movement about eating healthier and being conscious about our environment. The new laws have watered down the meaning of organic for many of us, but the question remains- should we purchase organic foods?
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What do you think of when you see that a company has put “juice concentrate” into your drink. You would be surprised. What they do is simply extract the sugar, and this means what you are drinking is a product from some oranges, or grapes, or whatever juice they say.
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President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.
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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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