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A Healthy Salad that will last a Week

Susan Boyles is the Chef and Proprietor for The Seasoned Gourmet, a culinary store and cooking school in Wilmington, NC. I had the pleasure of attending a cooking class there earlier this year and have been eating this recipe for House Chopped Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette dressing ever since. […]

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26Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Will power is not enough - write a plan

There are two big days this week! One is Black Friday. So called because it is the day of the year retailers begin to operate in the black. That is because of all the after Thanksgiving Day shopping. Thanksgiving Day is the other.
Do you have goals set […]

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19Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Top 5 supplements to take for Better Health

1.Vitamin D - How much you should take is not yet clear. The old recommendation was 200-400IU per day. We know that at least 800 IU (IU=international units) per day is needed to prevent osteoporosis. Consider supplementing with 1000-2000IU per day of Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). You should take a Vitamin D3 supplement […]

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12Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Vitamin D3 - top 5 reasons you may need more

Reason number one - you need adequate sunshine on enough of your skin to produce Vitamin D. If you live in a northern latitude, work long hours, avoid sun to avoid skin cancer risk, or have pigmented skin you probably need to supplement.
Reason two - The Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for Vitamin D was […]

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5Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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Good Nutrition is partially about total calories per day

Everyone wants to look good naked. Almost everyone that goes on a diet says it is for health reasons but mostly its about appearance. Either way, the process is about loosing fat. It can be consumed by our body at the rate of one pound per week. One pound of fat […]

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29Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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Supplement claims - 10 misleading statements

My thanks to Nutrition Action Health Letter for their informative article on supplement advertising. The article points out 10 advertising claims that usually have little or no substantiation. These are in no particular order:
1. Pharmacist Recommended - especially if the pharmacist works for you as they do in the Rite-Aid/GNC alliance.
2. Doctor Recommended - Take […]

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22Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Portion distortion - How portion size today makes us fat

NHLBI or the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has some great information about portion distortion. On the NHLBI site the portion size from 20 years ago and the portion now are displayed. Subsequent slides reveal to you how many more calories is in a portion now and how long a given activity […]

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15Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 1 comment | Continued
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Cognitive Strategy for changing your behavior

In two places, Medscape and the blog SharpBrains, I encountered interviews and articles by Dr. Judith Beck Ph.D. of the Beck Institute and The Univ of PA. They led me to buy her book about weight control and cognitive therapy.
In her Medscape interview Dr. Beck says, “Dieters need a great deal of education […]

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12Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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What to eat to become a better you?

I ask many of my patients what they want to do most with their health? Many of them tell me they want to loose 10 or 15 or more pounds. I like to tease them and ask 15 pounds of what? It is meant as a joke, sort of!
What they really want […]

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8Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 1 comment | Continued
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MSNBC gets the “skinny” on spices

MSNBC reported on a story from Self magazine about spices in your diet for different purposes. Spices mentioned in the article were dried red pepper, curcumin, and capsaicin. They noted that studies published in the British Journal of Nutrition or those done at U of SC and UCLA backed up their report.
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