About Dr. Gourmet

My name is Timothy Harlan and I am both a physician and a chef. This blog is a general collection of information and random ideas on eating great food and eating healthy.

You can find out more at the Dr. Gourmet web site. Eat well, eat healthy, enjoy life!

Categories

New Recipes for May 19, 2011 at DrGourmet.com

Pre-Order Just Tell Me What to Eat!and Get Free Shipping!

You can now pre-order my new book,Just Tell Me What To Eat!: The Delicious 6-Week Weight Loss Plan for the Real World. This is a 6 week plan that I’ve built over the last decade of working with [...]

Introducing Russ Lane : New Recipes at DrGourmet.com

Introducing Russ Lane

This week we’re so happy to introduce Russ Lane as a columnist for Dr. Gourmet. We will be including guest columns from him and others with our Thursday New Dr. Gourmet Recipes Newsletter.

Russ [...]

Alcohol-Free Beer: an Antioxidant?

Reading the academic research articles that we then write about here at Dr. Gourmet is not what I’d call reading for pleasure. They’re interesting, of course, but a bit dry, as I’m sure our Health and Nutrition Bites are. Now and then, however, [...]

The Mediterranean Diet: Alcohol

I get questions from patients almost every day about whether it’s safe or healthy for them drink alcohol. It goes without saying that drinking too much alcohol is bad for you. Even so, the best research we have now shows that those drinking between 2 and 3 drinks per day for men or 1 to [...]

Fat or Cholesterol Content?; Non-Alcoholic Beer and Coumadin

Dear Dr. Gourmet,

Q: I recently had my cholesterol checked and my Doctor said that everything is ok except that my LDL is high. I’m confused when I look at the nutritional information on foods. I’m finding a lot of foods that may be low in [...]