by Laura B. LaValle
We’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon in our practice — many people are still afraid to eat fat. Even those who are experiencing the benefits of a low-carb, higher-fat diet can’t seem to make the change without having some guilt or concern about the butter on their sautéed vegetables or the cholesterol [...]

By now almost everyone knows how great foods like broccoli and blueberries are and how they can help you lose weight — but here are some foods you may not have thought of when you first saw the title of this article. Yet every one of these foods (and one beverage) meets at least one major criteria of being a super food for weight loss [...]

Dr. Tim Reynolds
Last night my wife made chocolate chip cookies. For those who don’t know it, my wife makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the entire world. She only makes them to torture me. She fills the entire house with the aroma and then the cookies sit on the cooling rack saying, “Eat [...]

As a biochemical evildoer, belly fat slowly destroys quality of life. Among men, it yields boobs. It .keeps your soldier from standing at attention. Among women, it stores the “junk in the trunk.” It smothers sex drive. It zaps life-giving energy. It disrupts mental focus.
Are you ready to obliterate it? As a pharmaceutical chemist, I’ve uncovered four weapons of fat destruction: human growth hormone (HGH), leptin, IGF-1 and testosterone […]