Blended Dietary Household If you're like me, you're living in a blended dietary household. I'm the first to admit that I do have it pretty easy as Marilyn (my wife) makes almost all our our meals and she is really good to me by making sure that the food that I eat is...
Lasting weight loss hypnosis You too can have lasting weight loss hypnosis. How do I know that? 27 years ago I weighed 260 pounds. I lost the weight and I've kept it off. Today, I weigh a healthy 135 pounds. Since 1997, I have helped hundreds of people...
Do overweight people live longer? Again last week, some one asked me, "do overweight people live longer?" In spite of what you may find on social media, the answer is "NO." Current evidence shows that do to the childhood obesity epidemic, we may now be raising the...
Healthy Thanksgiving You really can have a delicious and healthy Thanksgiving dinner. I know because I have been eating amazingly delicious and healthy Thanksgiving dinners for more that 25 years. The reality is that many of the traditional Thanksgiving...
Stuffed Pumpkin WOW! Halloween is tomorrow! In some ways it seems like last week that I posted the Stuffed Pumpkin recipe for 2019. And in many ways it seems that 2020 will never end! Just 63 more days to go! And, Thanksgiving is only 27 days away! Even this year, we...
The McDougall Plan Changed My LifeJohn McDougall, MD & The McDougall Plan changed my life. In 1995, I weighed 260 pounds. I’d been overweight or obese all my life. My blood pressure was high and I was borderline diabetic. Cheese, ice cream and Coke...
Soda linked to an early death“The results of this study are significant,” said Sarah Reinhardt, lead food systems and health analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It reinforces a fact that won’t surprise anyone in the nutrition field: Processed foods loaded...
Breakfast Like a KingIf you want to lose weight, eat breakfast Like a king, lunch Like a prince, dinner Like a pauper. Or, as I've said for the past 23 years, you want the bulk of your food earlier in the day and less food later in the day.This is pretty much opposite...
Pre-Cut Vegetables Have you ever wondered about the health differences between pre-cut vegetables and whole vegetables? People often ask me about using pre-cut vegetables so I was happy to hear Dr. Greger talk about them. My take is that as much as I would love to...
Protein is a nutrientProtein is a nutrient - not a food group. I was having a discussion with another professional this week who kept to referring to protein as if it were a food group. It's not! Protein is a nutrient!!!!It drives me crazy when people talk about...