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		<title>100 Years Ago, JAMA Thought that a Liter of Water at Meals Was Too Much</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAMA has a section called &#8220;100 years ago&#8221; in which the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) quotes a column from its archives, verbatim. Last week, it was January 13, 1912 WATER-DRINKING WITH MEALS  &#8221;&#8230;While the ingestion of moderate quantities of water with meals may be harmless in persons with good gastric motility, since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Pedometers and GPS Watches: Consumer Reports 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treadmills and elliptical trainers are some of the best aerobic exercisers available for weight loss 2012, and Consumer Reports picked its top models this month (reviews to come). But if you already have a treadmill or an elliptical, or want to start more simply, select a pedometer (around $30) or a GPS watch (around $200) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Men: What Helps Guys Diet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obesity and Weight Loss]]></category>
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		<title>Dr. Oz&#8217; 4 Secret Reasons Women are Exhausted</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/drug-food-safety/dr-oz-4-secret-reasons-women-are-exhausted/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dr-oz-4-secret-reasons-women-are-exhausted</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging and Costs of Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our ABC station (KEYT, and former CNN editor Shirin Rafaee) asked me about Dr Oz&#8217; 4 Secret Reasons Women Are Exhausted (previously, we spoke about belly fat)(footage to come). Here they are: 1. Carb Coma: a catchy way to sum up the sharp drop in blood sugar and shunting of blood to your stomach (not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPA and Obesity: The Soup Can Paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soup is good food. It&#8217;s especially good for weight loss. Bob Barnett and Barbara Rolls based the best-selling Volumetrics around the idea that dishes low in calories (i.e., lots of water) and slow-to-eat (i.e., soup!) were the best for losing weight. There&#8217;s something to that. It&#8217;s a cruel paradox, then, that a new JAMA report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research on Men: Why They Don&#8217;t Go to Doctors (and what might help)</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/common-conditions/research-on-men-why-they-dont-go-to-doctors-and-what-might-help/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=research-on-men-why-they-dont-go-to-doctors-and-what-might-help</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging and Costs of Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Conditions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calcium score]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erectile dysfunction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/?p=4403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At KevinMD, Dr. Joel Sherman writes smartly about why men avoid going to the doctor.  One reason: it reminds them of mortality. A second reason: a potential prostate exam. A third: they have to wait, a lot. Plus, telling a female receptionist about a male-related problem is not great. Note to middle aged men: erectile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Regain: Not Your Fault. It&#8217;s Your Hormones. But Which?</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/child-obesity/weight-regain-not-your-fault-its-your-hormones-but-which/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=weight-regain-not-your-fault-its-your-hormones-but-which</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/child-obesity/weight-regain-not-your-fault-its-your-hormones-but-which/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Obesity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[34 people whittled down from 50 were followed over 16 months after a 10 week crash diet and lots of counseling: they lost 29# on average, and gained back 12#. Their hormones (leptin, peptide YY, cholecystokinin, insulin, ghrelin and gastric inhibitory polypeptide) continued to scream&#8230;eat! And they were hungry, thought about food, and wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tools for #youdoit #hcsm Self-Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/common-conditions/new-tools-for-youdoit-self-empowerment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-tools-for-youdoit-self-empowerment</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/common-conditions/new-tools-for-youdoit-self-empowerment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Conditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participatory patient care (#youdoit #hcsm) is getting more press, and well it should. I believe patients are way ahead of most clinicians on nutrition, fitness and lifestyle change. The American College of Physicians has cautioned internists to &#8220;Tread Lightly&#8221; (full disclosure: I&#8217;m quoted). The social web (blogs, tweets, facebook posts and google plus, YouTube videos, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Quick, Simple Ways to Use the Odd Bits of Veggies</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/5-quick-simple-ways-to-use-the-odd-bits-of-veggies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=5-quick-simple-ways-to-use-the-odd-bits-of-veggies</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/5-quick-simple-ways-to-use-the-odd-bits-of-veggies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food FAQ's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that odd bits of an animal are simply offal. But the odd bits of fruits, vegetables and legumes are rich. Rich in most of the vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals packed into produce. Good cooks will want to know what&#8217;s in those odd bits, and use them, instead of tossing them down the disposal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belly Fat for Women: the Dr. Oz 5 Step Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/common-conditions/belly-fat-for-women-the-dr-oz-5-step-plan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=belly-fat-for-women-the-dr-oz-5-step-plan</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging and Costs of Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Oz debuted his 5 Step Plan for Women Over 40 Who Need to Lose Belly Fat last night, and I spoke with Shirin Rafaee of KEYT, our ABC affiliate, about it.  No surprise here: women&#8217;s needs are different from men&#8217;s weight loss needs. Belly fat in men and women poisons your liver, blocks muscle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Employers Pay for Childhood Obesity Treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/child-obesity/how-employers-pay-for-childhood-obesity-treatment/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-employers-pay-for-childhood-obesity-treatment</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Obesity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers are going to begin being asked to pay for childhood obesity treatment. And it may be in their best interest to do so. The two largest health care costs for employers are employees who are &#8220;heavy users&#8221; (interestingly, the same term is used in the fast food industry for diners who eat-in 14x/week or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Men Lose Weight: 10 Year Review</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/helping-men-lose-weight-10-year-review/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=helping-men-lose-weight-10-year-review</link>
		<comments>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/helping-men-lose-weight-10-year-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obesity and Weight Loss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chef clinic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking at my patient records from Chef Clinic over the last 10 years (yes, I&#8217;ve kept them all, in all their manila folder glory). Especially interesting are the men. In a weight loss practice, most patients are women. Women have more societal pressure to achieve a healthy weight than men, often have tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Bittman&#8217;s &#8220;Tax Bad Foods&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/response-to-bittmans-tax-bad-foods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a physician and professionally trained chef, I write recipes on prescription slips. I try to practice what Mark Bittman of the New York Times eloquently preaches in Tax Soda, Subsidize Vegetables. Yet a healthy diet is like penicillin&#8211;simple, powerful, and with increasing rates of resistance, from physicians. Physicians are not trained to speak with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Calorie Counts: How Accurate? How Relevant?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new JAMA study of calories from Tufts shows that the single serving take-out portions of solid foods (not beverages or buffets) from 14 large-chain quick-service restaurants (e.g, Chipotle, McD&#8217;s, Bob Evans) vary widely but have about the calories their websites claim. Sides, desserts, salads and carb-rich foods, however, often have more. On The Border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescription for Abnormal Lab Test Syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.drjohnlapuma.com/obesity-and-weight-loss/prescription-for-abnormal-lab-test-syndrome/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=prescription-for-abnormal-lab-test-syndrome</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrLaPuma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging and Costs of Aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve seen several patients with terrible looking numbers: 260 LDL cholesterol, 35 HDL cholesterol, 375 triglycerides, 180/85 blood pressures, 222 blood sugars, 9% glycohemoglobin. The standard treatment for such numbers is clear: prescribe the right medicine in the right amount, and recheck in a few days or weeks. People with metabolic syndrome are up [...]]]></description>
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