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Sometimes you gotta decide is your health more important than the taste  sensations of carefully crafted cuisine.

The time has come for me. I do love McDonalds Biscuit Sandwiches and assorted fast foods. I could eat fries by the bucket full and who can resist a double even when a single would be satisfying.  Well we can resist when the time is right. Start using your brain the way it was intended to be used.

It is for making intelligent choices and by choosing well you become wise. Make this your time. Control. Its a personal thing. You make the decisions that can affect your health and fitness as well as your happiness.  Cut down on how much you eat when you are taking on board more than your body needs.

Substitute good foods for bad. Maybe eat small amounts on a timely basis. I found that adequate breakfasts including McDonalds Sausage Biscuits or ask for the biscuit with just folded egg, (each currently priced at $1.00) varied with cereal, yogurt, fruit, even bacon and eggs can set me up for the day.

Then about 3 hours later I have a banana, an apple or a pear. A few hours later lunch maybe some ham, a boiled egg and some crackers; more fruit in the afternoon and a salad when I get home. Maybe you could try dome almonds as a snack during the day. Start now and reward yourself after a week or so with some of your favorite foods but take it easy and good luck.

Many people come to me asking how they can manage their weight. They’re always hoping for some kind of prescription for some weight loss drug or appetite suppressant. What I usually tell them to do is to stop eating out so much. These people claim to want to lose weight but can’t say no Burger King. I am not up-to-date on any major statistics but I would but Americans are overweight due to fast food. So if you are someone who loves-themselves-some Wendys, I would wager that you could lose ten pounds or more by swearing off fast food for just one month. Here’s why:

Eliminating soda is one of the top reasons you’ll lose weight. Soda is concentrated empty calories in liquid form! You may read the nutrition label and see that soda has no fat, but in reality, all the sugar it contains will be converted into fat later. If you want to get rid of fat, you can’t order a tall cup of Dr. Pepper every day. It’s just not going to work. By cutting soda, your body will be so much more likely to burn all of the calories it takes in.

Not eating out will help you lose weight because you’ll be able to gain more portion control over what you eat. When we eat fast food, we usually order a combo meal and we don’t feel like we’ve gotten the most bang for our buck until every bite is consumed, every drop of soda is slurped down, and ever fry is devoured. Because of this, many of us keep eating even though we’re full when eating out. This is the kiss of death when trying to lose weight. You can’t keep eating once your tummy says, “no more.”

The last reason you’ll lose weight is because you won’t be eating fries. While the burgers have their fair share of fat and calories, the fries absolutely wreak havoc if you want to lose weight. Fried foods are hard to digest and are almost impossible to burn off. Sadly, most dishes at a fast food joint come with something battered in oil. By avoiding the restaurants altogether, you can eliminate fried foods from your diet so you can better manage your caloric intake.

One of my friends in particular swore off fast food late last year. Within a couple of months, he had lost almost 30 pounds! So if you’re addicted to McDonalds and Carls JR but craving to be thin, it’s time to break the dependence and start eating at home.

I have patients see me about obesity more these days than I used to. I think it’s a combination of poor image and poor diet. Never before has America had access to such bad food and had such bad guilt about it at the same time. McDonalds makes you fat while the TV makes you sad. So many people want that movie star physique without giving up their fatty diets. That’s why so many people out there are running to treatments like HCG. They want a shortcut to the body of their dreams without any sacrifice.

Hands down, the best way to lose weight is diet and exercise. At least that’s what I thought until one of my friends went on HCG. For the sake of this article let’s call him “Richard.” Over several weeks of seeing Richard about a year ago, I noticed his fat shrinking before my eyes. Every time I saw him, there was less of him to see. In about three weeks he had lost nearly 25 pounds. He looked great.

Of course I had to ask him what he had done to see such fast results. Richard told me that he been taking HCG injections every morning for the past 21 days. He was losing more than a pound a day. However, it wasn’t just the shot alone, it was the fact that he was eating only 500 calories a day for those 3 weeks. After that he was going off the injections and back onto a limited diet, but was still going to stay away from carbs and starches for the a while.

For a while, the results stayed. For a good six months or so, Richard had the body he always wanted. But suddenly something snapped. His metabolism seemed to slow to crawl and the weight began packing back on until he was heavier than before. During HCG Richard lost 25lbs, during his relapse he gained 50 back. Now he is the heaviest he has ever been and is now burned out on dieting and sits around thinking he’ll never be thinner than he is.

This sad story shows that you shouldn’t take extreme measures to lose weight. Like the old maxim says, slow and steady wins the race. The way to lose fat and keep it off is to budget what you eat and spend time exercising. However, there are plenty of great supplements out there that can help you trim down even more. I just doubt that HCG is one of them.

As much as it hurts to try, I attempt to keep myself up to date with local news and home town stories. When you’re a doctor serving a community, you need to do your best to understand it. But the state of local news, paper or broadcast, just isn’t like it used to be. A local paper I read has recently gone through some layoffs. I think there may only be 5 reporters left on the whole staff. It’s pretty sad. I have heard it said so many times but I’m starting to believe it now: “Newspapers are a dying business.”

If the papers are going extinct, I think local television news stations are next. Though it will be sad to see them go, I think it needs to happen. Some business just go the way of the dinosaurs (unless the government is standing by with a bailout). The nightly news is cutting so many costs it is starting to become glaring. You can see it in the production quality and from the stories they pick.

Recently I was watching the news and a story came on about a new health supplement. The story spent two minutes singing the products praises, proclaiming how effective it was. As a doctor, I had heard of the product before and I had read up on its ingredients before. From my own research, I knew that the supplement did not yield the results the news anchors were promising but still they treated it like it was something revolutionary, exciting, and news worthy. The whole thing made me very suspicious.

I decided to do some research of my own. I have a friend who was a communications major back in college. He got a degree in broadcast journalism and worked in the field for about a year before he couldn’t take it anymore and went back to school to become a dentist. I asked him why stations were putting out stories like the one I had seen the other night. He told me that while he was in the business, stations would receive Video News Releases, or VNRs, on a regular basis to supplement their story line up.

Ignorant of what a VNR was, I asked him to explain what that was. He explained that a VNR is a prerecorded video package edited and sometimes narrated by a third party. This third party is usually a public relations firmed that has been hired by the company putting out the new product they’re highlighting. These packages sound like a news story, but in reality they are short little infomercials. Since the news station is so strapped for time with a limited staff, they are willing to run almost anything if it will save them a few bucks. In essence, supplement companies are paying news outlets to run stories on their products. This hardly seems objective, unbiased, or like sound journalism at all.

So next time you’re watching the news and you see a little segment on some new miracle drug, don’t be taken in. You can be sure that this product isn’t news worthy and was just included to delay inevitable death of a dying news show.

The reasons the news stations add these VNR’s to their

There is a website I happen to be pretty fond of. It keeps me entertained often. It is called Lamebook.com. Basically they just post hilarious conversations by people on facebook. It’s no secret that some of the more trashy population on Facebook seems to have no problem when it comes to sharing way too much or holding long drawn out conversations about who slept with who right on their wall for everyone to enjoy.

Well Facebook has had a problem with Lamebook for some time now. They say that Lamebook’s name infringes on one or more of their trademarks. Today they actually started censoring all mentions and links having to do with Lamebook and disallowing them to be shared on Facebook. For most of Today you couldn’t even post a comment to your wall or send a message containing the term “Lamebook.” I find that ridiculous especially taking into consideration that Facebook just announced its new messaging platform and the fact that all users will soon receive an @facebook.com email address if they want one. Many people speculate that the changes to their messaging system are to place them in a better position to steal more of the email market, and that Facebook sees themselves as the future one-stop-shop for email and written correspondence via the internet.

There is no way that will ever happen if they continue censoring messages they have a problem with. Can you imagine Gmail not allowing you to send an email that contained the term “Mircosoft” or “Bing?” What a ridiculous thing to imagine. Or what if skype bleeped out the sound on video chat every time you said “Vonage.”

All I have to say about the whole thing is RETARDED.

The Middle East has been in constant turmoil, and the one country they seem to all want gone is Israel. Israel is one tiny blip on the scale, and yet it has become one of the largest targets in that given area. Of course, they believe themselves to be the chosen people. But they are also one of the smallest countries in the area, and it’s not only the Palestinians that don’t get along with them. They are just the best known group not to like the Israelis.

Of course, there are good things and bad things about any culture or any group. But to some, it seems like they may even egg their opposers on. Any one of those countries would group with others to smash them, and some would love to do it on their own. But why is it that they are so confident? Why is it that they don’t seem to care about peace when it comes right down to it?

For one thing, they are a chihuahua with a mastiff behind them. It sounds bad. But when it comes right down to it, you will find that they are an extremely small country surrounded by a bunch of other dogs who hate them, big or small. But the United States for years has backed them over the Palestinians or any other Middle Eastern country. While there are many private bombers who attack them, and Israelis are just as guilty as anyone else of having private bombers, countries as a whole do not dare go up against a much larger country and army, especially by themselves.

Second, they believe that God is behind them. After all, why not? They have been known as the chosen people. And you will find that their theory has been proven time and time again. Every time the US backs them, they are saved and they seem to be above the attacks of other countries, even if they are obviously not doing it on their own. So instead of worrying about security, they worry about making money, building businesses, taunting their neighbors in the case of some more confident Israelis. So the good life that they believe themselves to be entitled to is very real.

All in all, you will find that for Israelis, there is no immediate threat. Yes, they have the occasional suicide bomber, and it’s tragic. But you will find that they are also restricting their neighbors, fighting with their neighbors, and causing problems for their neighbors. They feel that they are in no danger of seeing a serious threat any time in the near future. And clearly, they know that somebody has their back at the very least.

Recently I had to got to Saint Louis, MO for some meetings. While I was there I sat through hour after hour of meetings put on by pharmaceutical reps. As painful as it was the trip was worth it for one reason.. the food. I never knew Saint Louis had such great food. Everywhere I went the dining was top notch. My favorite was this little sushi place right next to the hotel where I was staying. Each roll looked like a piece of artwork.

One strange thing I noticed while in Saint Louis is that there seemed to be a State Farm Insurance agency on every corner. Maybe the people there just need a lot of car insurance. I’m not sure, but whatever the reason state farm seems to have a stranglehold on insurance there. I notice things like that because I am a doctor and as I’m sure you know insurance companies have a lot to do with how I run my practice. In all reality they probably have more say than the government. They may have even more control in the near future if President Obama gets his bill to become permanent law.

I hope to visit Saint Louis again soon if for nothing else to eat sushi and shop for Farm Bureau insurance.

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The Facts About Weight Loss Pills That Actually Do Their Job

Diet pills as long as I can remember been regarded as worthless and for suckers. Well a single group is determined on reversing all that. The organization refers to themselves as the weight loss leaders of science and they honestly believe that there are genuine, true weight loss products on store shelves today and they’ve set out at showing it. They have to date tested more than one hundred and fifty name brand products and their goal is to investigate 500 by 2012. The group’s findings are widely seen as notable and the published diet tips are real.

Diet supplements are subject to some unique laws and ordinances. So long as the labs put in only certain levels of regularly occuring ingredients and include a disclaimer they can pretty much sell any formula as a diet aid without having to check with the typical federal regulations or go through regular official approval. The term supplement really means “an addition to” or “an assistant for.” The supplement category was first established to classify products that could be helpful in conjunction with using traditional treatments or more serious action to prevent or treat a problem. Just over the last 15 years or so have we watched supplement makers attempting to place their formulas directly next to prescription drugs metaphorically speaking.

Soon will just become more and more essential for customers to judge for themselves when deciding on the best course of treatment for conditions. Good organizations such as the one referred to above might make that decision a bit less painful. We encourage you to look at everything and educate yourself. Search diet pill reviews, thumb over peer reviewed publications and access every genuine resource when deciding on things that affect your state of health.

And keep in mind if anyone is afraid of a curious buyer then maybe they have something you may want to look out for.