I don’t post many pictures of myself here. It’s right for you to wonder what a “diet doctor” looks like. Well, I’m not fat. At a shade under 6 feet tall (183 cm), I weigh 170 lb (77.3 kg).
Steve Parker and son Paul hiking at Horton’s Creek in Arizona on the Mogollon Rim
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I’ve written before about twice-convicted felon Kevin Trudeau. He’s a well-known infomercial pitch man who wrote Weight Loss Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About.
Problem now is, he never paid his $37.6 million (USD) fine to the Federal Trade Commission. Says he ain’t got the moolah, but the FTC doesn’t believe him.
According to the government, credit card records demonstrate that the corporate entities owned or directed by Babenko [his wife] have been paying almost all of Trudeau’s American Express and Diner’s Club bills. Her companies, the authorities say, have also paid for Bentley automobiles, private jet travel and the rent on a 14,000-square-foot mansion in Illinois.
I don’t feel sorry for Trudeau; I’m sad for the folks he mislead in to buying his book.
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A treadmill is one of many ways to do high-intensity training. Tabata’s classic interval study used a stationary bicycle.
…if you’re an overweight out of shape man. The lede touts three 4-minute workouts a week. The fine print adds a 10-minute warm-up and 5-minute cool-down. So now we’re up to 19 minutes x 3 = 57 minutes a week.
Medical Daily has the details, or you can go straight to the research report. These guys walked, jogged, and ran on an inclined treadmill. The 4-minute “exercise” is intense.
Study participants increased their oxygen consumption, a common measure of fitness. The also dropped their fasting blood sugars by 5%.
I don’t see why you couldn’t replicate these results with other types of exercise, such as bicycling, burpees, or running outdoors.
We’ve already established that most of us will never exercise for two or three hours a week. How about an hour? If you’re sedentary now, what are you waiting for?
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Details are at MedPageToday. Patients taking 100 mg three times a day had better outcomes compared to placebo. A separate study suggested that CoQ10 improves pumping action of the main heart chamber, the left ventricle.
BTW, the Mediterranean diet helps prevent heart failure in the first place.
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National surveys suggest that more than a third of girls in the U.S. experience some degree of physical or sexual abuse before they reach adulthood, the researchers noted. Studies also have linked childhood abuse with an increased risk for adult obesity and anorexia nervosa and bulimia, but the new analysis is the first to explore an association between child sexual and physical abuse and a wider range of binge eating and food obsession issues now grouped together under the umbrella term ‘food addiction’.
“Our findings suggest that women with a history of childhood abuse are more likely to report engaging in these uncontrolled, addiction-like eating behaviors, and we also found that the harsher the abuse they experienced, the stronger the association,” the investigators wrote.
The article also helps you figure out if you have food addiction.
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Medicare provider information in two separate databases was inaccurate most of the time and generally inconsistent between the two, compromising the program’s ability to detect fraud and abuse, a government watchdog found.
Data in at least one field were inaccurate in 48% of inspected records in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) and in 58% of inspected records in the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), according to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
Moreover, provider data were inconsistent between NPPES and PECOS 97% of the time, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) didn’t verify most provider information, the watchdog agency said in a report released Thursday.
Having to deal with these agencies is one of the many reasons doctors don’t own and run their own practices.
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