healthy living

Timing of Meals: Cure for Obesity?

Does when you eat affect your weight gain? It does in mice- apparently if mice are restricted to eating over 12 hours they don’t gain the weight of mice that eat the same amount over a longer period of time. How can this help you? Well, if you are a mouse….

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Contrave: FDA Relents, Approves New Weight Loss Drug

The FDA approves a new pill for weight loss. Still minimally effective, Dr. Terry Simpson advises that this weight loss drug is not worth the minimal results that come at high risk. Healthy lifestyles trump miracle pills every time.

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Childhood Obesity, Food Insecurity, and Cooking

Food insecurity breeds obesity by allowing the view that having some extra weight is healthy. The most basic of all insecurities is overcome with obesity. Leading to an endless cycle of obesity this can be combated not by surgery, but by availability of fresh foods, and teaching people how to cook.

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High Protein Diets and Early Weight Loss: It isn’t Good

Terry Simpson MD analyzes early weight loss in high protein diets – it isn’t fat that is lost, it is glycogen and water. The loss of glycogen and lower glucose levels make it more difficult to use of fat as an energy source, which is not a good thing! In fact it can hurt you – not help you!

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Eating Organic Food Does Not Decrease Incidence of Cancer

Organic foods offer no benefit to prevent cancer, in fact there is a small rise in breast cancer among those women who reported eating organic foods.

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Cheap Food and Obesity

The beverage and snack industry continue to peddle the products of obesity, but even the economists have seen the trend. Economist conclude the primary reason for obesity is low price, high availability of fattening foods & beverages.

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Toxoplasmosis – Your Cat Could Fork U

A serious, but preventable food-borne illness that can cause damage to the unborn child, and immunocompromised individuals. Yet, can be easily treated and simply prevented.

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Parasites and Seafood

Parasites and fish: available from those who love raw fish from the wild. Dr. Terry Simpson shares a story about one case, and few of the common fish parasites and how you can avoid them.

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Health Benefits of Seafood

The healthiest people on the planet are those who eat primarily fish in their diet. We evolved from the ocean, and are ever tied to it. We are so dependent on seafood that we cannot get ingredients without them. There is no doubt that if man will colonize other planets, what we will bring with us are fish.

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