The biggest thing I've noticed while in clinical rotation? People want to lose weight. Of course.

After asking a bit about their eating habits - there tends to be a common error in their eating habits.

They eat their biggest meal at night.

This is a major weight gainer. Why? What do you do at night? Sleep. Metabolism is slow and calories are not burnt. Where do the calories go? To storage. Storage is fat once glycogen stores are filled in the body. 

Glycogen stores are replenished quickly if one is not exercising. 

So, in order to help prevent fat from appearing on your sides, eat your biggest meal at lunch.

    This way there is enough time in the day where your metabolism is clicking away. If you exercise, then the benefit is even larger. 

What to do at dinner?

 Eat complex carbohydrates - fiber. Salads are excellent. The increased fiber in salads makes you full so you won't want more. The trick with salads though is one tends to add a ton of dressing.

Avoid this desire. Try to pick juic...

We are spending more money than ever to find and treat cancer—some $100 billion in direct treatment costs alone.

Today, one subsidiary of the global chemical firm Industrial Chemicals, Inc., makes a number of cancer-causing pesticides, such as atrazine—a compound banned in much of the industrial world—while another division of ICI, AstraZeneca, produces tamoxifen, one of the most widely prescribed cancer drugs in the world.

Could this paradoxical strategy have anything to do with the fact that both the incidence of cancer not tied to smoking and its treatment options keep steadily increasing, while efforts to restrain environmental causes of the disease remain stymied?

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A classmate of mine sent me the link to this video. I was pretty touched and impressed by the actions of this man and the people within it.

Here is what my classmate wrote along with the link to the video:

Dear community,

I just wanted to share this link with you to view a video about a man named Juan Mann and his campaign for Free Hugs. It is a short video and reminds us how touch deprived we are in our society. Too often we get busy in our lives and forget the essence of being, whether it be with loved ones, family, friends, colleagues, or strangers. The more we connect technologically, the more distanced we seem to become. There's something special about having coffee/tea with a friend rather than just talking to them over the phone and a handwritten letter has much more meaning than an email. We busy ourselves with errands, work, and have multitudes of things to do. It is important to remember to slow down and just be in nature, with friends, or just present doing whatever you c...

The biggest thing I've noticed while in clinical rotation? People want to lose weight. Of course.

After asking a bit about their eating habits - there tends to be a common error in their eating habits.

They eat their biggest meal at night.

This is a major weight gainer. Why? What do you do at night? Sleep. Metabolism is slow and calories are not burnt. Where do the calories go? To storage. Storage is fat once glycogen stores are filled in the body. 

Glycogen stores are replenished quickly if one is not exercising. 

So, in order to help prevent fat from appearing on your sides, eat your biggest meal at lunch.

    This way there is enough time in the day where your metabolism is clicking away. If you exercise, then the benefit is even larger. 

What to do at dinner?

 Eat complex carbohydrates - fiber. Salads are excellent. The increased fiber in salads makes you full so you won't want more. The trick with salads though is one tends to add a ton of dressing.

Avoid this desire. Try to pick juic...