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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.

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Nutrition News Roundup

Interesting articles and information from around the web.  Some good, some downright scary.

Convenience stores linked to child obesity
UPI.com
1 (UPI) — A Canadian researcher suggests fighting child obesity by making school zones convenience-store free. Tracie Ann Barnett, at the Universite de 
Diabetes on the rise among older Mexican Americans
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The percentage of Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes, the kind closely linked toobesity, has nearly doubled since 1993, 
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US failing to meet most 2010 health targets; getting worse on obesity, blood 
The Canadian Press
ATLANTA — About 10 years ago the US government set some lofty health goals for the country to reach by 2010. By many measures, Americans didn’t do so well. 

Effects of diet on diabetes risk vary by ethnicity
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diets heavy in meat and fat seem to raise the risk of diabetes, though the effects of this and other diet patterns may vary by 
Conservative diet suggested for Limbaugh
UPI.com
“Twenty years ago, it was shown that coronary atherosclerosis can be reversed by a combination of a plant-based diet, avoiding tobacco, modest exercise — a 

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