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Who doesn’t love blueberries?
Who doesn’t love blueberries? They are, for the most part, sweet, they go with just about everything, and, for us lucky Californians, they are almost always in season. They contain long-worded substances such as antioxidants, anthocyanidins, and flavonoids, making them rank with such superfoods as acai berries and kale. So when a study demonstrating that […]
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I’m Nuts Over Nutella
It’s hazelnuts. It’s European. It’s stylish, which makes it seem a bit healthy. Why, it can be likened to fancy peanut butter. Who here has not dipped a teaspoon– wait– tablespoon into that voluptuous tub of CANCER-RIDDEN goodness? Nutella, the treat of childhood, best eaten plain, but also divine on bread, pancakes, or crepes, is […]
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Plastic Bracelets for a Healthy Soul
Over the past few years, the vaccine controversy has continued to simmer. First it was Hollywood , and now it’s in Washington. Many of us in medicine chuckled at the press that starlets were getting from the potential damages that vaccines can do. Although crowds listened to their stories, there was always the caveat of […]
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When Patients Lie
The other day, the mother of a nine-week-old baby girl called my office in a panic. Her daughter was having terrible breathing trouble, with coughing and wheezing. She asked to been seen that day, and of course I said yes. I asked mom how the baby had been doing overall, and she said that she’d […]
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The FDA Should Chew On This…..
In the current climate of the obesity epidemic, the FDA has changed the nutritional labels we’ve become all-too-familiar with. The emphasis will now be on calorie count and appropriate serving size. So much for my pretending that the pint of ice cream i just downed had 350 calories. What? That was per serving? Don’t […]
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