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A prominent digestive system surgeon I know recently confided in me, “we hate doing gastric bypass surgeries, but our hospital makes us do them because they’re a profit center.”  I asked him why his surgical team hated them.  His explanation was simple: “they’re dangerous, and a lot of times they cause complications like infections, and…

Are you extremely concerned with your eating – perhaps too much?  If you starve yourself, or follow extremely limited calorie consumption, or binge and then make yourself vomit, or compulsively overeat, it’s time to get help. Eating disorders are very real, and dangerous.  Pressures from our culture to be thin and perfect are very real…

This comment brought tears to my eyes; tears of love for God, and appreciation for all that I have. I don’t know who wrote it, but thank you so much.  It’s eloquent. “I watched as Stevie Wonder sang that hauntingly beautiful song, “My Destiny”, as I looked upon that portrait of Michael which hung over…

At night, when you’re struggling to not binge, go outside and look up at the stars. Gaze for a long time. Think about how far away they are. So big, so vast and expansive is our cosmos. How beautiful.  Think about how little you are, compared to the whole stellar universe. However big your problems…
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