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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’s needs are different from men’s weight loss needs. Belly fat in men and [...]
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 [...]
Dr Oz says “break it down and make it simple”. Dr. Roizen says “diet smart, not hard: small changes make a big difference.” They recommend in their new YOU: Losing Weight Recruit your team. You need someone to cheer for you and take the fries from you. Plan Your [...]
Gary Taubes blew the top off the New York Times readership with his carefully researched “What if it’s all been a big fat lie?” about fat and heart disease in 2002 (translation: it’s the type of fat that matters, not total fat). He’s doing it again with “Is Sugar [...]
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In this TED video, a food scientist makes the case for cooking as an evolutionary tool. He believes (and the data show) there are functioning neurons (we think of them as brain cells) in your intestines — about a hundred million of them. Heribert Watzke tells us about the [...]
A new UK research study promotes “health at every size” (HAES). It suggests that that instead of trying to lose weight, people should try to change their lifestyle and health behaviors. And that keeping lost weight off and maintaining a normal weight over the long term to is seldom [...]
Several sneak peaks–including my statement to the Information Hearing on Diabetes and Obesity in Sacramento 8.25.10 are in the newsletter tomorrow (quick sign-up to get it, top right!). It was challenging to say something new, practical, and responsible…to decisionmakers about policy. [...]
Celebrity is like royalty in the U.S. Some are going public in creating positive role models for weight loss and health. And they’re doing it with lifestyle, diet and exercise. Not drugs or fads. Drew Carey, according to the medical journal People, has “cured” his type 2 diabetes [...]