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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…

The act of eating is a deeply spiritual and sacred experience. When you put food into your body, you are giving yourself life energy. You are taking something that was once living (animals and plants who have given their lives for you) and transforming it into fuel to support your life. You are taking a…

This is outrageous, and blows my mind!  A new Burger King 7″ burger.  Their new ad campaign which is blatantly sexual (just like many advertisements) is even worse. Beliefnet’s Editor-In-Chief, Steven Waldman wrote about it the other day, take a look. In terms of calories and fat content, why do we need a bigger burger…
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