Dr. Spencer Nadolsky – Obesity and Lipid Specialist Physician

You’re fed up with that extra flab around your belly or on the back of your arms. You heard on the radio there is this new procedure that freezes off the fat without any diet or exercise. Sounds pretty “cool” right? (lol).
It’s called Cool Sculpting and if you’re thinking of trying it, be sure to read this first....

It all started with a sensational meme that said something like “Did you know magnesium is used in over 300 processes in the body? It’s a super important mineral!” Okay, maybe not exactly but close enough.
My response was, “Who cares? Are many of us actually deficient in magnesium?”...

(Note to the Reader:  I’m using weightlifting in a gym to make examples because I’m most familiar with this form of exercise; however these examples certainly apply to other forms of exercise)
You’ve been here before: you’re feeling motivated and so you decide you want to get in shape, so you go to the gym to just jump in with both feet and get started....

Something that has driven me nuts in the past is the notion that sugar is addictive and problematic by itself. People talk about sugar being evil, but when you ask them to list specific foods, they list foods that are high in both sugar AND fat (think...