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A quickie breakfast idea
Mornings in our house are a bit of a zoo, what with two surgeons having to be in the O.R. before 8am and two elementary school students who suddenly decide that their chosen outfit is no longer good enough – three minutes before they need to head out the door (ahh, the drama of girls). So [...]
Is This Still Good?!?
7. December 2009
Food Safety I am always ask these questions, “is this still good?, do you think this has been in here to long?, should I eat the turkey from 2 weeks ago?”. My least favorite is “smell this, do you think it’s okay?” With the holidays, I imagine that you will have the same questions at [...]
Amy’s Quick and Dirty Dinner Tricks
11. November 2009
If your house is like mine – first thing you hear when you get home, “What’s for dinner????” Even as a dietitian and with probably over 100 cookbooks, I sometimes still struggle to find something for dinner that is healthy and quick. Here are a couple of ideas – I have added comments for you [...]
Why Some Lap Banders Lose Weight Almost Effortlessly
7. November 2009
There are some days in clinic when I feel a little like a cookbook. Everybody wants to know exactly what foods they should be eating, exactly how to prepare them and exactly what not to eat (’cause if you don’t forbid it specifically, then they’re gonna take it as a license to eat it). While [...]
Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat
5. November 2009
When I think about the phrase “I’m starving to death” I think about what a physician….no, not your wonderful, sweet, kind, thoughtful, caring (is that overkill?) surgeons, told a patient of mine a long time ago…….”It takes a body approximately 40 days to starve itself to death.” We may have those thoughts but, in reality, [...]
The Secret Water Tricks Every Lap Bandster Should Know!
3. November 2009
Why is it that we’re always pushing our patients to drink water? Do we own stock in a bottled water company? Well, no, but I sure do wish I had thought of the whole concept 20 years ago so I could take New Jersey tap water and sell it for $2.00 a bottle like Dasani. [...]
7 Rules to eat by
12. October 2009
This past weekend my little hometown paper (that would be the New York Times) dedicated the entire Sunday magazine to diet and food. Michael Pollan, who writes often on health related topics, recently collected 2500 different peoples’ “rules for eating” and shared his results in this issue. Paraphrasing some of them, here are a few [...]
Why your plate should look like a rainbow
1. October 2009
The summer after my freshman year in college, I spent 6 weeks in Florence, Italy going to a local school to learn Italian. Okay, maybe the fact that Italy is chock full’o great food and amazingly handsome men might have had something to do with my choice (after all I could have gone to the [...]
Why certain foods can make you fatter!
28. September 2009
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 [...]
Hair Loss after Weight Loss Surgery
28. July 2009
We often hear from our patients that they are experiencing hair loss and are obviously concerned. There are two different kinds of hair-loss after weight loss surgery, one that usually occurs about 3-4 months after the operation and one that can happen at any time. The first is related to the operation itself, the second [...]
15. January 2010
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