Stop Protesting and Start Cooking
Yes- someone is protesting Kraft because they use “artificial” colors in their Mac and Cheese. They then made up an entire post about how Kraft uses genetically modified wheat in their product. While...
View ArticleIdentifying Yourself with Your Diet
Raw Food, Vegans, Paleo, and Your Identity Did T Rex become extinct because they were not vegan, or because their arms were too short to floss? Did you ever meet a vegan who, in the first 20 minutes of...
View ArticleObesity and Patients
Obesity and Patients This is probably one of the best videos that I have seen recently about the causes of obesity and how we treat our patients. It is something that we physicians must remind...
View ArticleCalorie Myths
Should We Replace the Calorie System for Weight Loss? Calories may not be an adequate way to represent the energy we need or would store. We all know people who eat little but stay heavy, and those who...
View ArticleThe Science of Brining: Turkey and Fried Chicken
To brine or not to brine – that is the question. First – what is brining? Brining is the process where you place some food in a hypertonic saline solution (salty water) sometimes with sugar and...
View ArticleOutrages of the Week in Food and Medicine
Ok, someone explain the logic behind this to me. The egg isn’t in a cage, so it is allowed to be free- to roam around and enjoy the fresh air? And for this, we pay more because the egg, which is...
View ArticleMan Loses Weight Eating Sausage and Beer
Yes, it’s true. Evo Terra of Phoenix, Arizona eats sausage and beer, and he loses weight. This controversial diet has been supervised by Dr. Terry Simpson for the past couple of years during the month...
View ArticleBeer Diet: What We Learned
The “Beer Diet” – I’m the doctor that supervised Evo Terra as he spent every October for the last three years drinking beer and eating sausages – and while doing this lost weight, lowered his...
View Article5 Reasons to Toss out Thanksgiving Leftovers
Bacteria Remember the care with which you handled the turkey? Worried about salmonella, campylobacter, and many other bugs. Well, while your spread was sitting out for two hours your turkey, potatoes,...
View ArticleUse a Scale or Diet Fails
Every Sunday morning my newsletter goes out to people interested in weight loss, healthy eating, and great food in general. But for my patients it is their weekly reminder to weigh themselves, see...
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