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Milk

When you ask the average person what single food will give them the best nutrition, a majority will say a nice big glass of milk.  The nutritional properties of milk have been carefully promoted for decades.  The milk advisory board’s advertising campaigns have been some of the most successful in history.  Who doesn’t love the […]

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Lifestyle Pain: part 2

Last week I wrote about how so much of the pain I see in patients is not the result of anything they have done to injure themselves, but rather the consequence of little lifestyle choices that gradually start creating negative consequences like pain.  We focused on the lower half of the body last time, looking […]

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Lifestyle Pain: part 1

I see a lot of people in pain.  The first thing they usually want to know is what they did to cause the pain in the first place so they can avoid it in the future.  A few of them know what they did, like lifting something too heavy or being in some sort of […]

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Excess weight is caused by GAS

I know the title statement sounds silly, but I am being tricky.  GAS stands for General Adaptation Syndrome – part of the theory of stress proposed by Hans Selye many years ago.  This newsletter is going to be a synthesis of my knowledge and experience to date regarding weight gain/obesity, so I may make connections […]