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There are 3 weight loss months in the U.S.: January, or New Year’s Resolution Month; May, aka pre-SwimSuit Season; and September, or the leaves are changing and so must I. (video inspiration below) Booksellers, commercial weight loss programs and pharmaceutical manufacturers (to say nothing [...]
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I’ve been looking at my patient records from Chef Clinic over the last 10 years (yes, I’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 [...]
New exciting food is the new pharma initiatives seem to be fighting with an equally new governmental crack-down on food with pharma claims. Who should you believe? On the one hand, Nestle is about to invest $500m in a new company to create food-based solutions to diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers [...]
Sure, they’re vintage ads. But three reports show how the heart of seduction still beats louder than a baby’s cry or early rock-n-roll. Though Sugar Inc was right about the pink packets then, and dollars now. First, the WSJ reports 7-Up is picking up market share in the U.S., by [...]
The training in culinary medicine next month is getting lots of interest (thanks jillianmichaels.com! thanks RealAge.com! thanks ChefMD readers!). So I thought I’d show you what you might expect. It’s easy to say eat more whole foods, fewer processed ones, walk/train 60 minutes, know your [...]
With Seth Godin as an inspiration, I’m going to do a live session in Santa Barbara on Friday, June 18, 2010. Instead of charging my usual fee for tickets, I’m offering seats only to people who want to be able to train several others. If you’re a coach, a [...]
My private practice based in Santa Barbara is primarily about weight loss. I’ve been able to study it too, including Chef Clinic and RealAge Diet programs. But this week’s report in Nature showing the more high fat junk food rats eat, the more they want to eat it and [...]
TEDx talks are a privilege to give, and some are life-changing: Al Gore on climate change, Tony Robbins on transformation, Jamie Oliver on childhood obesity. In this first TEDx American Riviera in Santa Barbara, I describe healthy eating that is transformational, based on new research in aging, [...]