This has been promoted for years and there is another study which apparently supports the notion. It's a win-win situation for me. If only beer, cigarettes and doughnuts had the same properties. Found on Yahoo News.

More from Medical News Today: Metabolife, Founder Indicted for Lying to FDA about Ephedra Risks. More reasons to help folks understand that the path to healthy weight is a healthy lifestyle, including proper diet and excersize. Magic pills only exist in the minds of the corporations that sell them.

Medical News Today has an interesting (though early) article on the relationship of red meat consumption in women and its link to endometriosis.

National Geographic has a brief article explaining stuff we already know about why we are getting fat as a society, in very simplistic terms. But it's a different view on things and sometimes presenting things from a different perspective will get patients to understand/accept what they're facing.

After a month+ long disappearing act, we're back and ready to work. You can expect daily updates from this point forward, except of course for the days where we don't post anything -- Then you can expect the daily updates to have been interrupted:)