Legume Lunch
Many of my patients have leftovers from dinner for their next day’s lunch. If that doesn’t happen though, they struggle choosing a healthy option. One thing I like to teach them is what I call the “Legume Lunch” I like healthy, but I also like convenient. My work schedule is similar to my patient’s. […]
The 3 things you should NEVER eat in 2016
I’m not sure about you, but I keep seeing these articles about “The 5 foods you should never eat if you want to lose weight” blah blah blah. These articles are ridiculous. They say things like potato chips and candy etc. Okay so you can’t have a treat once in a while even if you have a small […]
Do you have Metabolic Syndrome?
Have some excess weight around your belly with slightly elevated blood pressures/sugars/triglycerides and/or low HDL-C? The doctor may tell you they are just small blips in your labs, but your risk of developing heart disease and diabetes are 2-5 times higher if you have 3 of those things in the cartoon. This is called […]
Exercise for Health, NOT Weight Loss
Patient: “I’m trying to lose weight doc, but the scale barely budges!” Me: “What are you doing to try to lose weight?” Patient: “I run a few miles a day and follow the x3000 super turbo workout plan!” Me: “Changing your diet at all?” Patient: “No” This dialog (or similar) happens every day in my […]
Anti-Fat Shaming is NOT Coddling
In the past couple months there have been two very popular videos (see pics below – not sharing videos here) circulating basically calling all those with obesity lazy human beings (they used much harsher language). I made reference to this on Facebook on how these two are clearly ignorant to the complexities of obesity […]