The joy of calories: Cookbooks and national weight gain
Restaurants get the bad rap, with their rich sauces and gravies, their “juicy” (meaning marbled with fat) meat-slab entrees, their calorie-loaded desserts, and most of all, their ongoing “portion...
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Dr. J on Portion control
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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Portion-Control Plates: 6 to Try
Laptop Lunches It’s no secret that portion control is an essential aspect of weight loss; our own Dr. J advocates portion control as “the best dieting friend you can ever make.” Proper-proportion...
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Gift Guide: 8 Present Ideas for Cooks
The family chef (or if you’re lucky, chefs) is a prized member of any household, but sometimes it’s tough to pick the perfect present. These gift ideas for cooks represent every budget and kitchen...
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To Eat Breakfast or Not to Eat Breakfast: A Phony Issue Rears Its Head
All We Really Learned is What We Already Knew (CC) yomi955/Flickr A news item has been popping up lately on the Internet and TV news and in print calling into question one of the cardinal rules of...
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Army “Performance Nutrition” Program: A Government Weight-Loss Program That...
(CC) norfolkdistrict/Flickr It Helps That Those in Charge of it are Armed to the Teeth To those persons who worry that our concern with America’s nationwide epidemic of overweight and obesity will lead...
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Government Nutritional Guides: Inside the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
(CC) Joe Buckingham/Flickr On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services released the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The nutritional guide...
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Dr. J Discovers a New Eating Disorder and Discusses How to Identify and Avoid...
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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The Rocco DiSpirito “Now Eat This! Diet” Book Puts the Sin Back Into Healthy...
The Rocco DiSpirito Now Eat This! Diet book is a follow-up to the celebrity chef’s Now Eat This! cookbook. The diet emphasizes low-calorie meals that replicate the “sinful” feeling of favorite comfort...
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Ascetic Tourism: Luxury Detox Ranches Give Tourists a Taste of the Simple Life
(CC) Stig Nygaard/Flickr Today’s Wall Street Journal featured a piece from Christina Binkley, who visited the Ranch at Live Oak, a luxury detox destination in Malibu, California for hectic...
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The MealSnap: The Ultimate Dieter’s iPhone App, or Pointless Techie Trinket?
Because There’s Always Room For One More… Let’s say you’re an iPhone user who has a weakness for new application concepts. You’ve already gotten apps that update your horoscope hourly, identify by name...
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Portion Size, Personal Choice and All-You-Can-Eat Dining
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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Cavemen, Competitive Eating and What it is Doing to Us
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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5 Ways to Optimize Your Kitchen for Weight Loss Success
(CC) Ben Ostrowsky/Flickr Recent research published in the Annual Reviews of Nutrition indicates that overeating — and, by extension, weight loss — has a lot to do with the way your kitchen is laid...
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New Studies Name In-Shell Pistachios as a Healthy Snack for Dieters
(CC) Rosana Prada/Flickr If you’re trying to watch your weight, two new studies indicate that pistachios are a dieter’s best friend. Participants who ate in-shell pistachios consumed 41 percent fewer...
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Why Your Doctor Won’t Tell You You’re Fat, and Even With Silverware, Size...
It’s a Heavy Subject, in Both Senses (CC) Truthout.org/Flickr You’d expect that the attitude of an obese person’s physician would be, “I don’t think she’s satisfied with her weight. I’d better bring it...
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Reason No. 116 Why It’s Not Your Fault If You’re Fat: Your Plates Are the...
For Instance, Yellow Plates Are the Color of Fat, Which Should Be a Tip-Off Right There (CC) Nina Matthews/Flickr As everyone who knows me is bone-tired of hearing, CalorieLab recently published my...
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5 Mindful Ways to Eat Fewer Calories
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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Can Sugar Help Control Appetite?
(CC) Richard Elzey/Flickr Being successful on any diet or life-changing plan can be extremely difficult. After all, if it were easy, then losing weight wouldn’t be a multi-billion-dollar industry....
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Eating For Two
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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