gaining weight

Keto Cons

A number of years ago I published a book “Losing the last 30 lbs: fundamentals of weight loss.” This is an excerpt from that book about “diets” and why it is that they fail. Hope you enjoy the humor…

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Obesity and Gut Bacteria: Fecal Transplant Causing Obesity?

A woman gets a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter and then becomes obese. Was it the gut bacteria that did it, or some other factors? Dr. Terry Simpson weights in…

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Chef Graham Elliot: Why His Weight Loss Will Work

Chef Graham Elliot underwent gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss. In the first year having lost over 120 pounds, here is a bit about the surgery he had, and why he will succeed.

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Beer Diet: What We Learned

5 Lessons the unconventional beer and sausage diet taught us. You may have heard of the beer and sausage diet, Here are the lessons this doctor learned in supervising the unorthodox beer and sausage diet for three years.

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Seven Reasons Obesity is a Disease

7 reasons why obesity is a disease – dismissing the arguments against The American Medical Association (AMA) who have officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could encourage physicians to pay more attention to the importance of addressing obesity.

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Eggs and Beer Diet v. Smoothie Diet

Two diets: one a smoothie diet, and the other eggs and beer. Who would lose the most weight over a month, and would the cholesterol improve or get worse? Here are the answers.

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Hospital Cafeterias: they should be a Place of Healing

A hospital cafeteria should not peddle junk food. A hospital cafeteria should be a place of healing and rehabilitation. It is time to change how hospitals view their cafeteria – it should be viewed as a place to teach patients to be healthy by teaching them how t and what to cook.

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Weight Loss Doctor Teaching Patients to Cook

What is the single most important factor change a person can make to keep them healthy? Cooking – developing a fine appreciation for food. So I’m a weight loss surgeon, and now I spend more time teaching my patients to cook, than I do operating on them. My surgical career changed- today I am a cook who does a little surgery

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Bacon Cures Cancer

They want you to think that vegetables turn off cancer genes – that if you get cancer you are not vegan enough. Here is the story of a lifelong vegetarian/vegan who will tell you that vegetables didn’t turned off the most deadly cancer progression of all. Someone who is the longest survivor of pancreatic cancer- and the one thing that changed — bacon

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