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Why certain foods can make you fatter!
There was a recent study published by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School that I found fascinating. They discovered that eating certain kinds of fats affect the chemistry of your brain. These fats, like those found in movie popcorn and ice-cream, turn off the chemical signals the brain uses to tell itself that it [...]
Mistake of the Week #2
25. September 2009
Today I saw a nurse in our office (I won’t rat out her name) putting peanut butter on a slice of white bread for lunch. Actually, two pieces and about 4 tablespoons of peanut butter, total. When asked about her somewhat bare bones lunch, she stated that she was on a diet and she was eating [...]
D’You Wanna Know How a Weight Loss Surgeon Stays Thin?
10. September 2009
Let me start by clearing up a common mis-conception held by many of my patients right away: I am not a naturally thin person. I come from a long line of short, birthing hipped women with relatively slow-normal metabolisms. I am not one of these supermodels who can eat cheeseburgers and fries and still keep [...]
Not to beat a dead horse, but…..
8. September 2009
I know we’ve written an awful lot about journaling and recording your intake. But a weeny itty-bitty reminder can always be helpful, so here goes Recently, I sent a friend a picture of a chocolate cake that I had made for a barbecue we were having in our backyard. She mentioned to me that she [...]
5 Things the Food Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
4. August 2009
The food industry does not exist to make you healthy or to help you make good food choices. They are in business to make money. And to some degree they accomplish that by tricking you into buying their products. Here are 5 things they don’t want you to know so you’ll keep spending money on [...]
Lap Band Restaurant Sabotage!
6. July 2009
Our family went out to dinner last night at On The Border. Now I’m not trying to single them out or anything, we truly enjoy their food and my five year old absolutely loves their black beans (she’ll eat two orders at a sitting and ignore the ice-cream – how strange is that?!?). But several [...]
Happy Fourth!
3. July 2009
While I love having a nice 3 day holiday weekend to spend with my family, every holiday in America seems to revolve around at least one big food splurge event and of course July 4th is no different. In addition to watching fireworks (and hopefully remembering our troops who can’t be home with us this [...]
What Should I Eat With a Lap Band?!?
29. June 2009
I saw several people today who asked if we had a list or book about what they should and shouldn’t eat. The short answer is no, but there is almost an infinate amount of information on the internet and in the library on the topic so I thought I’d at least give you some guidelines [...]
Food Labels
2. June 2009
It sometimes occurs to me while talking to patients in the office that things that I find second nature after doing them for years may not be either easy or obvious for somebody just getting started on this journey. I was fortunate enough to go to France one summer with an exchange program when I [...]
Just Say No!
28. May 2009
There are some foods that are just pure, unadulterated diet sabotage. These are foods that I think you should never eat, or if you can’t give them up entirely, have very very rarely (this is not once per day – that means once per month!). I think these are foods that you’ve seen as “no-no’s” [...]
28. September 2009
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