November 2020

holidays

Gratitude

“if we acquire a good through exchange, effort or achievement, or by right, then we don’t typically feel gratitude. Gratitude is an emotion we feel in response to receiving something good which is undeserved” – Lacewing I’m going to follow up my last post about Thanksgiving with another one – there is just too much […]

holidays

Thanksgiving

I’ve gotten so many questions the past few weeks about how to navigate the Thanksgiving holiday without falling off the health wagon. Maybe Thanksgiving isn’t worrying you a lot – but I would bet someone in your life is grappling with this idea right now, so having a way to talk through it can be

Education, Weight Loss Myths

Obesity is not the primary driver of poor health

I was putting together a lecture this weekend and started organizing my slides about metabolic disease and how it’s the biggest problem we are fighting and I realized that although that concept is common knowledge to me, that many people haven’t heard it. Although I tell all of my patients that when we are fighting

habits, Mindset

The Marshmallow Experiment

Information about the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment has come across my desk several times in the past few weeks.  That’s a sign that I need to bring it to you!   For those of you that aren’t familiar, the marshmallow experiment was performed on a group of preschoolers in 1972 and was performed by a group studying

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