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Links for Great Health Helping Parents Raise Healthy Children.
Provides parents with up-to-date information on how and why kids gain weight, and what to do about it. Includes a sample Traffic Light diet, Recipes for Weight Loss for Kids, books and book reviews, and links to major resources.
What Do Doctors Really Eat at Medical Meetings?.
First of its kind research identifying physicians' meal preferences, meal budgets and tools for meeting managers.
PubMed Search Engine.
The best and most complete search engine of the medical, nursing, scientific, psychological and social science resources. Use the filters for refining results.
Top Santa Barbara Specialist: Anxiety.
This simple URL, http://www.marshamarcoe.com, posts its excellent quarterly newsletters, which offer practical, sensible advice for alleviating anxiety and other symptoms that can hinder people from losing weight and keeping it off.
HealthSpan: Staying Young Over 50.
Dr. Michael Seabaugh's enthusiastic collection of syndicated weekly columns, medical resources, news reports, blog and story-telling. A nationally recognized clinical psychologist specializing is issues of aging, he sees patients in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara.
CAM on Pub Med.
A scientific database developed by the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: evidence-based, peer-reviewed journals, many with full-text links.
Fit Fats: Know the Fats On Healthy Oils.
Dr. La Puma's detailed March 2004 interview on fit fats: why olive oil merits a health claim to reduce heart disease (hint: it's not cholesterol!), why nut oils are healthful. Plus, Squash Soup with Pumpkin Seed Oil.
Insiders Guide to Vytorin, Raising HDL and Niacin.
2 pages of practical detail, 10 questions to ask your doctor, excellent references hyperlinked to learn more. Too good to keep a secret. Get your Vytorin guide here.
Biodynamics.
Search our articles, tips and videos on biodynamic drugs and biodynamic medicine.
Culinary Medicine.
Culinary medicine is a new field, pioneered by Dr. La Puma: read about it at ChefMD.com. Get your edible prescription, your culinary prescription, your satiety solution. |
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Links for Great Flavor
FRS PLUS is a powerful, flavonoid-rich delicious orange-tangerine drink, packed with catechins and quercetin. Flavonoids fight oxidation and gobble up free radicals, which can destroy cartilage, injure arteries, and kill cells. Appears to improve performance in elite athletes in a recent clinical trial.
5 Days of DASH.
These five days of menus, created by Dr.La Puma, are based on the DASH eating plan. The study called DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) found that the risk of elevated blood pressure can be reduced with a lowfat eating plan that is rich in lowfat dairy foods, fruits and vegetables. What a bonus! Free!
Mustard Museum.
Mr. Mustard, a formerly practicing attorney and avid Red Sox fan, married Mrs. Mustard, and after 4500 unique mustards filled their museum in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, they're still searching for more...and with a sense of humor.
Farmers Markets.
A comprehensive listing of everything you ever wanted to know about farmers markets.
Slow Food International.
With 80,000 members in over 100 countries and growing by 10% annually, Slow Food has become the pre-eminent organization for protecting traditional foods at the risk of extinction, and for preserving biodiversity. It also encourages people to enjoy food, other people, and kindness.
The Napa Valley Mustard Festival.
Possibly the oddest single food festival (Gilroy Garlic and Carpinteria Avocado are easily mainstream) the Napa Valley Mustard Festival is a destination worth pursuing: mustard ice cream, perfume, film, theater, performance, galas, every Spring since 1993.
Santa Barbara Pinot Noir.
Discover exceptional wines from boutique California wineries. Private tours, wine tasting.
Penzeys Spice House.
A revelation of herbs and spices, these small quarters burst with flavor, aroma, scent and more cinnamons than you can possibly imagine, never mind curries, nutmeg graters and more, more more. All meticulously researched and well-loved. Definitely a destination. |
