Archives: November 2009
Wed Nov 25, 2009
Thanks Giving
For Thanksgiving I give thanks for the intelligence and creativity of my patients which makes my high success rate possible. Something I did has ensured that nearly every one is realistic and sharp. Maybe because so many come by referral from other patients (smart people tend to have smart friends) or through the internet, patients travel from other cities to see me. Whatever I did, I don't want to change it. More...
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Wed Nov 18, 2009
Labeling in Restaurants
On NPR today I heard that the state of Maryland passed a law requiring fast food chains to display on their menu the calorie count of the food items on offer. All studies agree that calorie counts on menus have no effect on calories eaten, in both high- and low-class restaurants. No surprise. The overweight people among the aristocracy as well as the hoi polloi ignore calories; and the lean people, who might be influenced by calorie counts, don't do much of the eating. Since this fact is so widely known, why did Maryland bother to pass the law? Why is the U.S. Congress considering a similar provision in the health care reform bill? Why don't calorie counts work here? More...
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Sun Nov 15, 2009
Pizza
It's not true that the U.S. never developed its own cuisine. That illusion arises from the fact that so many of the foods we think of as Mexican or Italian or (you name it) were really developed in the U.S. The chimichanga, enchilada and hard-shell taco, all created here, the first in California, the rest in Texas. Caesar salad? San Francisco. Chop suey? Ditto. The hamburger? Not Hamburg. More...
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Fri Nov 06, 2009
Getting the Right Focus
The most frustrating thing I face is patients and doctors who focus on the pills and pay no attention to the Six Lessons. Such people will never lose weight or help other people lose weight. The greatest thing achieved in my life is not my plays and novels, not my scientific publications (textbooks omit that glucose-6-phosphatase plays a role in the brain), not my own children (my wife did most of that work). The best thing I ever did was the Six Lessons. The trouble is, in our materialistic society, no homage is ever paid to ideas or advice. But you cannot hold happiness or success in your hands. More...
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