Dr. Haendiges' Daily Dose Medical Weight Loss Newsletter

Good Afternoon! I want to ask you something! I want you to pay very close attention to this entire Daily Dose!  At the very end is an important gift that I am giving all of you! This could save your life or the life of someone you love!".

I want to shake things up a little bit for today's daily dose. I have received so many emails of encouragement and support for our Daily Dose. Thank you to all of you that are reading the Daily Dose. I appreciate your interest.  It is truly a pleasure to be able to share this information with all of you!  I want to give you something special. But, I want you to finish reading today's topic. I am going to finish with the Top 10.

The last Daily Dose asked you to write a journal of the foods that you ate over the past few days. Did you do it? If you did and you want to share it, email it to me. I can review it and make suggestions. Your information would be kept completely private. 

We are going to continue our discussion. Now, I want to talk about Pizza! Most pizza has at least 5 genetically modified "foods". The cheese that we get on it will, by most standards, only have about 10% real cheese. What else is in this? The dough (My favorite part as a carbohydrate addict) is loaded with bleached white flour which has been bleached of all vitamins and minerals. They are called "enriched" by adding back a small amount of vitamin isolates. Our body is not geared to handling vitamin isolates. It knows how to function with the whole vitamin.

My all time favorite snack was Oreo cookies and milk. When I was young that was my comfort food. I would eat them after school and in the evening. As I started to watch my weight, I cut them out. However, on occasion I would have one. I found that it is hard to stop with only a few. Now that I am gluten free, I don't find them as desirable, but I do understand the addiction to them.

Part of my research and my new focus is to understand why people consume food that they do and when they do. The other question is how does all of this fit together? What does our current state of nutrition have to do with our health anyway?

It is time to get back to our routine. I do love a routine. My favorite time of the year is Christmas and New Year.  However, I am always very happy to get back to the routine. We all take some comfort in the routine.  That is what life really is all about; the everyday pleasures and pains of our families, our work and our friends.  Life is usually not about the big things in life. Really, that is a good thing. We can only handle so many of the "big" things.