Organic Junk Food is Still Junk Food
Sometimes my patients get excited when I ask them what they have been eating over the past month or so. They say gleefully, “Dr. Spencer, you would be so proud! Everything I bought was organic!” Then when asked to specify, a bunch of junk food is listed. I then have to be very careful about what […]
Might as well give your kids ice cream for breakfast
Last year, my buddy Dr. Yoni Freedhoff made a post about how it was ridiculous that the Cleveland Clinic was promoting National Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day. My brother, Dr. Karl Nadolsky, made a comment how it is fine to have a treat now and then, which of course I agree with. But I started […]
30 Day Challenges and Rapid Fat Loss are Good
There is a growing dichotomy amongst weight loss coaches where one group sides with 30 day challenges and quick weight loss and the other sides with slow long-term weight loss. These things don’t have to be mutually exclusive though. In fact, I initiate a rapid fat loss plan with my patients and online followers for […]
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 […]
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 […]