Thinking of Skipping Meals? Don’t Do It
Thinking of skipping meals? Think Again! from McMedia ProducerGirl on Vimeo.
View ArticleDiet Soda Can Help You Lose 10 Pounds
When it comes to finding simple things to lose ten pounds in a year, often the answer is easy. It means changing your tastes – and finding something that is a lower calorie alternative or...
View ArticleWhat is Fiber?
For a while it seemed that everyone was talking about the importance of fiber, and its role in preventing a variety of diseases. After much speculation, we now have a few answers about what fiber...
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Best Diet to Avoid Heart Disease
Heart disease happens when the arteries feeding the heart become infiltrated with plaques – and these plaques happen to contain fat, cholesterol, white blood cells. If the plaque builds up slowly the...
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Soda and Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners are either the saving grace of America, or the devil. The first issue with artificial sweeteners came to light when cyclamates (the first marketed artificial sweeteners) were...
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The Beer Diet Results
Who would have imagined that my patient, Evo, would have lost 14 pounds on the “beer and sausage” diet (now called the Evo diet). From the medical side there are two other benefits — his triglyceride...
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Red Meat and Early Mortality
When the Archives of Internal Medicine published the article “Red Meat Consumption and Mortality” all I could think of is “here we go again.” First to go through this paper- which is a statistical...
View ArticleParents Wildly Underestimate Children’s Calorie Intake
As a weight loss surgeon, I see more and more patients come to my office who are adolescents that are morbidly obese. There is a common denominator among them: they don’t eat at home, and they don’t...
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Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day? Nope
Too often we hear that breakfast is the most important meal, or that one should eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a poor person. With the idea that breakfast has a magical ability to cure us...
View ArticleOprah Needs A Skeptic
Recently Oprah Winfrey announced that she was tipping the scales at over 200 pounds and she was ashamed. To help combat her weight she has assembled her “star studded” group of individuals to offer...
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High Protein Diets and Early Weight Loss: It isn’t Good
Low Carb Diet Myth: by Terry Simpson MD - YourDoctorsOrders.com from Producergirl Productions on Vimeo.Going on a low carb diet means a rapid weight loss. This provides incentive to continue with a...
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Childhood Obesity, Food Insecurity, and Cooking
Imagine this: being in a household where you, as a parent, do not know if you will have enough money to purchase groceries for your family. Then imagine going to your local grocery store, and what type...
View ArticleHeroin vs. Over Eating: Which is Harder to Kick?
There is a high level of weight regain after diets. Dieting is a multi-billion dollar industry that peddles more hope than weight loss. Is the 95% return of lost weight that was reported half a century...
View Article5 of the Biggest Weight Loss Myths
Here are five myths about weight loss. You think Peanut Butter and yogurt are good? You think potatoes are bad? Think again. Dr. Terry Simpson debunks 5 of the biggest myths about losing weight.
View ArticleEat Late – Gain Weight
those late night snacks lead to more calories and if you add that ice cream daily, it can lead to twenty or thirty pounds per year. Eating late at night and over eating can be explained by not having...
View ArticleThe Beer Diet Results
Not only did Evo beat all expectations in terms of weight loss, but his levels of triglycerides and his cholesterol decreased dramatically without an increase in liver enzymes. Evo did better than...
View ArticleRed Meat and Early Mortality
Does red meat increase your mortality? According to the recent report it does- but when you analyze that report, you find that correlation does not equal causation, and here are just a few major flaws...
View ArticleParents 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
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