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Mornings are crazy in our house. I'm sure you can relate if you have children. Between making lunches, hoping you washed their "color of the day shirt" for school, and checking to see if you've signed their nightly folder takes time. Just when you think you are finished they tell you they have a book-fair today and need money. The scrambling to find cash begins. Our boys are on team gymnastics and need their gym clothes and grips several days a week. Grrr, are they clean or am I secretly going into the hamper and pulling out a pair of shorts, sniffing to make sure it's wearable, then...

I love making these fruit skewers for a BBQ. If I know there is a cookout in the future I'll try to plan ahead. I have a rectangle pan (it's green on the outside I found at an antique store and wouldn't actually cook it, but it looked cool) that I'll fill with a little bit of dirt and plant some grass. I pack the seeds in pretty tight so the roots hold the skewers upright. Oh who am I kidding, I make the kids do it. Just for the record they love playing with dirt. And watching things grow. So really, I'm teaching them about science, nature and farming (yes farming, this is my story and I...

Finding an alternative to "rice, pasta, potato or bread" can be a challenge for some. Quinoa is a great substitute. It has the consistency of rice, cooked like rice, and can take on the flavor of whatever your cooking with. Hint - it can be bland, so using stocks and spices is helpful. Make a batch on the weekend and you can enjoy it all week by changing the ingredients. 

What is Quinoa? It's a species of goosefoot, is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal, or grain, as it is not a member of the true grass family. ...

At I.M.120, we have been successfully treating the problem of medically significant weight for over 20 years.

Our program is a response to the profound and broad nature of the problem, as well as an answer to the multiple programs that offer...

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For decades, the simplistic formula for weight reduction has been: reduced calories equals reduced weight. Simply do the math. If one pound of fat contains 3500 calories, all one needs to do to lose a pound a week is reduce 3500 calories out of your diet. 1 pound a week = 4 pounds a month = 48 pounds a year. Seems simple enough. The inconvenient fact is that the body does not work that way.

It turns out we are not machines, but rather biological organisms who have a hormonal and neurochemical response to change of food intake. 

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In our house we talk with our children about food. The usual, what they like, what they don't, but also about macronutrients. This started at a young age because I never wanted them to be an adult, become overweight and have no idea why. When we eat a meal they will pick out the carbs, protein and sugars involved. When we're in the super market they have certain guidelines to follow; cereal has to have less than 10g per serving. It's remarkable to see an 10 and 8 year old in the cereal isle looking at the labels and saying to each other " This one has 15g of sugar and only a 1/2 cup...

I have a patient in my practice who currently weighs 260 pounds and has a body mass index of approximately 36. By any objective measurement this person is morbidly obese and would be perceived as requiring weight loss.
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I remember as a child being admonished by my grandmother not to "eat with my eyes." of course what she meant was not to use my visual  perception as a guide toward the volume of food I should consume. It turns out, as so often happens with the age-old advice of our elders, that her advice right on target and has since been validated by modern research.

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