Posted on Saturday, 12th December 2009 by admin

Learn all about the risks and benefits of the lap band procedure as a tool against obesity. Basics The lap band procedure is a weight loss surgery designed to help obese people drop pounds and hopefully improve their overall health profile. Most bariatric surgeries are limited to those who are at least 100 pounds overweight, [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 8th December 2009 by admin

Here’s my  review of good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, by Gary Taubes, 2007.  I give it five stars on Amazon.com’s five-star system (“I love it”). ♦   ♦   ♦ This brilliant book deserves much wider currency among physicians, dietitians, nutritionists, and obesity researchers.  The epidemic of overweight and [...]

Tags: Bad Calories, Calories, Good Calories
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Posted on Tuesday, 8th December 2009 by admin

We first found Ultimate Cleanse on a site called the “poop report”, which obviously is quite entertaining to say the least, even if you’re not used to the dirty subtleties of poo as Koreans in particular seem to be with a character they basically call “Jimmy Poo.”  But anyway, basically speaking, they talk about it [...]

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Posted on Monday, 7th December 2009 by admin

Nutritional supplementation has become a must in our society today. With the abundance of processed and nutrient-deficient foods, our bodies require extra support for optimum health. We have witnessed quite a paradigm shift in the way we see nutrition over the last few decades. The “one size fits all” nutritional supplement is no longer adequate, [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 6th December 2009 by admin

Crimini mushrooms, a tan or brown variety of the common button mushroom, are rich in flavor and healthy nutrients. Facts about Crimini Mushrooms While mushrooms have been harvested from the wild for thousands of years, they have only been cultivated since the 1800s. They are now widely grown throughout the world. Crimini mushrooms, also known [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 5th December 2009 by admin

Table sugar (sucrose) is a combination of glucose and fructose Darya Pino earlier this month posted at her Summer Tomato blog a video regarding high fructose corn syrup.  The speaker in the video is pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, M.D., of the University of California—San Francisco. In the U.S. between 1970 and 1990, consumption of high fructose corn [...]

Tags: Corn Syrup, Fructose Corn, Fructose Corn Syrup, Syrup
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