What is the single most important factor change a person can make to keep them healthy? Cooking – developing a fine appreciation for food. So I’m a weight loss surgeon, and now I spend more time teaching my patients to cook, than I do operating on them. My surgical career changed- today I am a cook who does a little surgery
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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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What happens when a person with a cancer that can be cured, opts for “nutritional” therapy instead? Here is a story of someone who went to Gerson Clinic, the same one that Steve McQueen, Pat Paulson, and a host of others went to. And what happened to the family after finding out that “natural is better” was simply an excuse to be intellectually lazy.
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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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Fatty liver disease is becoming endemic. The cause is excess saturated fat in the diet combined with excess calories.
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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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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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