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Links for Great Health

Helping Parents Raise Healthy Children.
Provides parents with up-to-date information on how and why kids gain weight, and what to do about it. Includes a sample Traffic Light diet, Recipes for Weight Loss for Kids, books and book reviews, and links to major resources.

What Do Doctors Really Eat at Medical Meetings?.
First of its kind research identifying physicians' meal preferences, meal budgets and tools for meeting managers.

PubMed Search Engine.
The best and most complete search engine of the medical, nursing, scientific, psychological and social science resources. Use the filters for refining results.

Top Santa Barbara Specialist: Anxiety.
This simple URL, http://www.marshamarcoe.com, posts its excellent quarterly newsletters, which offer practical, sensible advice for alleviating anxiety and other symptoms that can hinder people from losing weight and keeping it off. There are also excellent case histories and stories. Ms. Marcoe sees patients in Santa Barbara, California.

HealthSpan: Staying Young Over 50.
Dr. Michael Seabaugh's enthusiastic collection of syndicated weekly columns, medical resources, news reports, blog and story-telling. A nationally recognized clinical psychologist specializing is issues of aging, he sees patients in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, and http:www.healthspanweb.com helps his patients and readers keep in touch with his thoughtful, vigorous, empowering view of aging.

CAM on Pub Med.
A scientific database developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: evidence-based, peer-reviewed journals, many with full-text links.

Food Facts.
FoodFacts.com is a comprehensive source for food facts. What are you eating? Get the facts! Food Facts is your online nutritionist that allows you to track and monitor the food you eat.

Fit Fats: Know the Fats On Healthy Oils.
Dr. La Puma's detailed March 2004 interview on fit fats: why olive oil merits a health claim to reduce heart disease (hint: it's not cholesterol!), why nut oils are healthful. Plus, Russell Scott's (of the American Bounty Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York) recipe for Squash Soup with Pumpkin Seed Oil.

Office of Dietary Supplements: Significant Research 1999-2006.
Dr. La Puma served on the UCLA External Advisory Committee for one of the 5 Centers designated to review cutting edge research in dietary supplements. This summarizes the best of that research, in downloadable *.pdf forms.

Insiders Guide to Vytorin, Raising HDL and Niacin.
2 pages of practical detail, 10 questions to ask your doctor, excellent references hyperlinked to learn more. Too good to keep a secret. Get your Vytorin guide here.

Eating Disorder Directories, Searchable.
Support, inspiration, education and treatment opportunities for people with eating disorders and those who love them. Contains: recovery issue articles; on line self-help program; DSM-IV-TR; research references; links; discussion forums; employment, internship and educational opportunities; in-patient programs. Q & A.

Zone Diet Program.
 Your Zone Diet Experts will help you get with the nutritional program that helps you feel great while you lose the weight.

Diabetes Testing Supply.

Diabetes Testing Supply
All information needed about diabetes supply and diabetes testing supply, original articles and daily diabetes supply news. Visit our site for further information and a special report about high blood sugar symptoms.

Biodynamics.
Search our articles, tips and videos on biodynamic drugs, biodynamic medicine, biodynamic remedies, even a biodynamicMD.

Culinary Medicine.
Culinary medicine is a new field, pioneered by Dr.La Puma: read about it at ChefMD.com. Get your edible prescription, your culinary prescription, your satiety solution, and look to your doctor to feed you.

 

Links for Great Flavor

FRS Plus- free sample..
FRS PLUS is a powerful, flavonoid-rich delicious orange-tangerine drink, packed with catechins and quercetin. Flavonoids fight oxidation and gobble up free radicals, which can destroy cartilage, injure arteries, and kill cells. FRS Plus is just 20 calories per cup, has 100% RDI of 7 vitamins, is gluten-free and appears to improve performance in elite athletes in a recent clinical trial.

Chef Adventures.
Especially for chefs and culinary educators, this site attracts the food media, writers, editors, culinary school teachers, and world travelers. One stop shopping for the food savvy.

5 Days of DASH.
These five days of menus, created by Dr.La Puma, are based on the DASH eating plan. The study called DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) found that the risk of elevated blood pressure can be reduced with a lowfat eating plan that is rich in lowfat dairy foods, fruits and vegetables. What a bonus! Free!

Mustard Museum.
Mr. Mustard, a formerly practicing attorney and avid Red Sox fan, married Mrs. Mustard, and after 4500 unique mustards filled their museum in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, they're still searching for more...and with a sense of humor.

Epicurious.com.
Thousands of searchable recipes and terrific links.

Farmers Markets.
A comprehensive listing of everything you ever wanted to know about farmers markets.

Slow Food International.
With 80,000 members in over 100 countries and growing by 10% annually, Slow Food has become the pre-eminent organization for protecting traditional foods at the risk of extinction, and for preserving biodiversity. It also holds cultural events all over the world, and encourages people to enjoy food, other people, and kindness.

Good Foods.

The Kitchen Link.
Excellent referral to food websites too! More links, well-honed.

Chef2Chef.
An Inside Guide to the Culinary World--chef jobs, cooking schools and top chefs. See Food TV develop before it hits the screen in the ideas of chefs who exchange ideas, recipes and new ingredients.

The Napa Valley Mustard Festival.
Possibly the oddest single food festival (Gilroy Garlic and Carpinteria Avocado are easily mainstream) the Napa Valley Mustard Festival is a destination worth pursuing: mustard ice cream, perfume, film, theater, performance, galas, every Spring since 1993.

Winemaker MD?.
Winemaking as a hobby? Definitely, on the Central Coast of California. For wine enthusiasts eager to discover exceptional wines from boutique California wineries. Private tours as well as wine tasting.

Penzeys Spice House.
A revelation of herbs and spices, these small quarters burst with flavor, aroma, scent and more cinnamons than you can possibly imagine, never mind curries, nutmeg graters and more, more more. All meticulously researched and well-loved. Definitely a destination...though they're now online!

High Quality Dark Chocolate.
Cocoa beans are rich in antioxidants called flavonols. They reduce blood clotting, improve blood flow to the brain, heart, arms and legs; and reduce inflammation. Enjoy High Quality Dark Chocolate as an occasional treat--rich in flavonols.

Gourmet Cookies.
https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/dev/images/Fresh-baked-234-60.gif Our gourmet cookies are all natural and contain no preservatives and are sure to please everyone! Order today and taste the quality!

Wisconsin Cheeseman
https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/dev/images/WisconsinCheeseman.jpg The Wisconsin Cheeseman offers gourmet food gifts for all occasions. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality products and guarantee our customer's satisfaction. We have been in business for over 50 years. The Wisconsin Cheeseman, Inc

Montana Legend Sustainable Beef
https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/dev/images/Montana_Legend_Logo_120x6.gif Montana Legend, LLC Montana Legend beef offers an authentic Taste of the Old West. Raised in the great ranching tradition of the western Rockies, Montana Legend's Angus beef is raised the old-fashioned way-- on an all-natural, all-vegetarian diet, without antibiotics or hormones, and then dry-aged to perfection to provide big-beef-taste and mouth-watering tenderness. Started at a 100-year-old ranch near Roscoe, the company now supports local producers committed to sustainable agriculture throughout the state of Montana.

Santa Barbara Pinot Noir.
Search our articles and videos on biodynamic drugs. They are not simply alternative medicine for cancer, or medicine without side effects or for pregnancy. Biodynamic drugs are often herbal medicine and natural medicine for pain, high blood pressure and general health.

 
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