Archives: September 2009
Mon Sep 28, 2009
Humor in Bariatrics
My daughter the smart lawyer praised my recent MOW, but said it's "depressing as usual". This year has been my best year for MOWs, but do you think my MOWs are depressing? I don't find that the words "depressing" or "optimistic" apply to the truth. An "idea" can be depressing, one's "hopes" can be optimistic, but the truth is immune to such adjectives. Ideas and hopes are man-made, but the truth is not. A molecule can't be optimistic. A black hole can't be depressing. They are just nature. Just there. More...
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Fri Sep 25, 2009
The Real Reason To Lose Weight
From the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." I'll let the beauty of those words reverberate for a moment, before getting to the real stuff... More...
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Tue Sep 22, 2009
I Made My Dog & Fish Fat
I didn't tell you this before, but years ago I made my dog and goldfish fat in an experiment. "Experts" on radio & TV go on and on about hormones and "fat genes". David Kessler is on the radio constantly--I wish I had his agent! Louis Aronne was on ABC Nightly News last Friday. But the hormonal/neurotransmitter explanation is absurd. Americans were not fat in 1970 and Europeans aren't fat now. (WHO statistics. https://apps.who.int/infobase/report.aspx?rid=111) Don't Europeans have hormones & transmitters? Why is obesity so American? American researchers searching that closet are looking for justification, not truth. More...
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Fri Sep 18, 2009
Where is the Mainstream?
To get Americans to lose weight, I had to unfasten myself from my moorings as a typical MD, to become a lay-psychologist or life-coach. Last Friday I treated patient #6000, still spending thirty minutes with each patient, tailoring my approach to each person. There's no other way to be successful, if by "successful" you mean getting people to lose weight and keep it off. More...
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Wed Sep 09, 2009
From Greece
Many Americans are just faking it every day, and/or try to fake it in my office, but for those who like to think, here is ancient advice that has nourished & sustained me. More...
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Tue Sep 01, 2009
Eat with Fat Friends?
I have been avoiding it, but I should answer the question patients have been asking me. I had emphasized Lesson 6, to get people to stop eating & snacking alone, getting them, instead, to eat meals (only) with friends and family. I learned the vital importance of this by observing the Italians in Italy. My American patients could see that eating with lean friends would help, or eating with dieting-fat-friends, but how would it help, they asked, to eat with impenitent obese friends? More...
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