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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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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Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day? Nope
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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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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Baked Chicken Breasts – Simple
A simple baked chicken recipe that has minimal calories but tastes delicious is quick and easy. Here is step by step instructions as well as a video to prove it.
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BPA and Obesity
A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA
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Myth: Doctors Aren’t Taught Much Nutrition
There is a common myth that physicians are not taught much nutrition in medical school. Often this is stated by people who have never been to medical school, and where they received their information- who knows.
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The Latest Word on Coffee
Coffee drinking may be a benefit to health. The recent study from the National Cancer Institute reports that coffee drinking is associated with a slightly lower risk of death from certain diseases than non-coffee drinkers. Coffee may be good for us– who knew
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