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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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Short Term Splurge - Long Term Fat

Just this week I posted an article with my best tips for eating healthy during holidays. While holidays are a time to splurge – and that can certainly be part of a healthy lifestyle – what the end-of-year round of holiday parties means for many people is a good month of overeating on foods that are high in fat, calories and salt.

Of course we know what the outcome is of such overeating: holiday weight gain followed by a New Year’s resolution to diet and exercise.

A group of Swedish researchers looked at the long term effects of such overeating in a small study that was just released by the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. Short Term Splurge – Long Term Fat

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