Nutrition and Weight
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We’ve been missing the boat on weight loss
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Last week, top obesity researchers challenged the calories-in/calories-out hypothesis that has dominated our approach to weight loss for decades. Study Finds heralded: “Overeating doesn’t cause obesity” And Science Daily proclaimed: “Scientists claim that overeating is not the primary cause of obesity” It all sounds…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: Time Restricted Feeding—Better than counting calories
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
Here’s another reason to stop counting calories if you’re trying to lose weight. As published in the journal Cell Metabolism, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego have found that Time Restricted Feeding (TRF) may be more effective for…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: When a healthy diet isn’t enough—getting to the bottom of stubborn weight loss
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
For many patients, it takes more than a healthy diet to win the battle of the bulge. Our practice is typically a last resort for patients who have tried and failed many popular diet programs, from Jenny Craig to Weight…read more
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Trillions for COVID recovery—what role for nutrition?
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
The US has allocated trillions of dollars for COVID recovery; an additional bill of uncertain multi-trillion-dollar dimensions is shaping up to address “infrastructure needs”—broadly construed as addressing material as well as human exigencies. Amidst this, in addition to the illness…read more
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February is Heart Month: Heart disease prevention starts earlier than you might think!
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
This month marks the 57th annual American Heart Month. President Lyndon Johnson (who died of heart disease) issued the first proclamation in 1964. Despite over a half-century of exhortation to diet and exercise, and drug and surgical advances, heart disease remains…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: Keep a budget – A carbohydrate budget
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
Weight loss diets are definitely doable if you learn to keep a budget. But I’m not talking about budgeting money or even calories here, I’m talking about carbohydrates. Just as in personal finance where a budget is a tool to…read more
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Leyla Weighs In: The best approach to weight loss I ever learned
By Leyla Muedin MS, RD, CDN
One of the most important components of education and training to become a nutritionist is nutritional counseling. It’s critical for changing eating behavior and is particularly germane to weight loss. I was struck by an interesting psychological strategy used by…read more
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The Mediterranean Diet—what’s not to like?
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
The Mediterranean Diet scores high in rankings by nutrition scientists. It’s the perennial #1 choice in the US News and World Reports annual rating of popular diets. But as with the Paleo Diet, which has many variations and interpreters, the question is:…read more
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They warned us about the dangers of sugar 70 years ago (Why didn’t we listen?)
By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Faced with some downtime for the holidays, I undertook the task of excavating my basement. Having moved my office to more compact quarters a couple of years ago, I had shipped my legacy book collection to New Jersey. Boxes sat…read more
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
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Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
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Q: Six months ago, my HgbA1c was 5.9 which was very concerning but now my…
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The pandemic is subsiding, due to a combination of vaccination, the high percentage of Americans…
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Q: What foods must I avoid when I have shingles and what do I have…
Leyla Weighs In: Nutrition and Mental Health
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