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!

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The Real World Diet Coaching: How Much Should You Weigh?

Almost every day I have patients ask me what they should weigh and how much they need to lose. I will admit that sometimes I am a bit evasive, saying such things as, “Start working on your weight, and I’ll tell you when [...]

Guess what? Cereal advertising to kids works!

OK, sarcasm aside, there’s a great report by the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity that shows how marketing has an profound effect on our children’s nutrition.  Here’s the link:

http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7013

If you want more great info and a look at the Nutrition Facts of cereals click this link:

http://cerealfacts.org/

This is a great organization that [...]

Try Turning Off the Television: Dr. Gourmet's Health and Nutrition Bites

You’re all no doubt more than familiar with the two main strategies for weight loss: reducing the number of calories you eat and increasing the number of calories you burn. Obesity researchers are also looking at ways to decrease the amount of time people spend in sedentary [...]

What Doctors Eat (Staff Edition)

It’s not just your doctor that’s eating pretty terrible food.  The staff that supports the doctor’s office and hospital eats pretty poorly.  While the drug company lunch is almost history in the U.S. other businesses bring lunch regularly including nur

sing homes, home health companies and the like.  This is a sampling of the sort of [...]