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Terri is a 38 year old who traces her tummy problems back to high school. She has had off and on again fatigue, cramping, gas, bloating and mood swings. She has seen 11 doctors, and been told she is a “diagnostic dilemma” and has “atypical bowel syndrome.” No wonder. [...]
Your Financial Prescriptions: Seven Tips for Cutting Your Medical Costs (Wall Street Journal 04.07.09) completely missed the biggest potential tip of all: what you eat. The right health insurance? Check. Compare hospitals? Check. The right health insurance again? Check. Check your hospital bill? [...]
I’ve promised to tell you what I tell my own patients in Santa Barbara. What I really do for my own patients is listen. A lot. What I am listening for is something that she is really good at. Is she a great communicator or does she talk to [...]
The culinary medicine questions I’m asked most are about weight loss. And losing weight does help many medical problems: in fact, food can work like medicine in the body. The trick, often, is to make sure it tastes like food, not like medicine. Acne vulgaris–young adult acne–is [...]
Filled with flavor, anti-inflammatories and in every yellow curry in the book, turmeric is not just for mustard coloring any more. In fact, culinary medicine–the art of cooking blended with the science of medicine– is one of the great bargains of our time. That’s essential in [...]
When I was 30 pounds heavier nearly 20 years ago, I lost it with rice crackers and grapefruit. I was persuaded then that a low fat—a very low fat—diet was the way to lose weight. My patients still were still overweight, however, and I knew that what had worked [...]
Read reviews and features on Amazon.com. In early 2007, Nicholas Genes interviewed me for Medscape about blogging, which not all physicians have taken to eagerly. He writes well and started Grand Rounds: read his blogborygmi. He asked: “Dr. Genes: Do you ever run into trouble when you headline a [...]
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