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By Dr. Justin Hoffman : hCG Diet Santa Rosa, Natural Weight Loss, Fast Weight Loss My inspiration for helping patients lose weight naturally, ultimately came from my own struggles to maintain a healthy weight through my own life.  Staying at an ideal weight and learning how to stay healthy is something that is a constant process not only for me, but for every one of my patients wanting to lose weight and keep it off permanently. Thankfully, food has begun to be recognized in our country as a true healing force.  Alternative physicians have always seen significant improvements when individuals make appropriate dietary changes.  Now,Read More →

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Weight Loss and Maintaining Weight Loss Holistic Health and Preventative Nutrition: Following any weight loss program, comes the challenge of how to integrate your new way of relating to food into each and every day.  Remember, the key to sustaining your weight loss is choosing health each and every day.  While healthy choices need to be made in many areas of your life, one of the most important areas is in how you prepare food and in what  you choose to eat.  Here are a few things to keep in mind after you complete your weight loss program: All foods get their  calories from oneRead More →

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_____________________ SOURCE:  Alexa Nemeth | Jan 09, 2010 GM Wheat Means Hope for Celiac Sufferers Genetically modified foods are becoming more popular in the news as they become more prevalent in our society.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has defined GM foods or GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) as crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques.  These plants are modified in a laboratory to add nutritional value and/or enhance their most desired traits. Genetic engineering can create plants with the exact results aimed for very rapidly and with great precision.  Genes can be transferred from one plantRead More →

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Weight Loss Secrets Santa Rosa, CA Weight Loss that is sustained and healthy requires much more than what fad diets offer.  Fad diets promise to help you lose weight, can often be expensive, requiring daily packaged meals and are NOT healthy in the long term.  Most of the most common diets such as South Beach Diet, The Zone, Atkins, Weight Watchers, and most others, completely lack the single most important component to lasting health – the emphasis on vital, healthy, fresh nutritive rich foods. Many of the “forbidden” and very unhealthy foods are recommended on the fad diets.  Although it is possible to lose weightRead More →

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Fighting Obesity With Food August 17th, 2010 by Dr. Justin Hoffman A seemingly paradoxical combination of words for a title – no?  That is, most Americans, in so far as I might assume, might think of dieting (food avoidance) as the first step toward combating obesity and slimming the waistline.  So how is it then, that eating more, can actually help you lose weight? All food is not created equally.  And just how nutritious a specific food is, can vary considerably.  Some foods are rich in processed sugars, while others are rich in naturally occurring phytonutrients, minerals, and vitamins.  Some foods are bulky, some denseRead More →

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Glycemic Index and Dr. Hoffman’s HCG Diet in Sonoma County March 01, 2010 by Dr. Justin Hoffman What is the Glycemic Index? When it comes to weight loss, the HCG diet, and the issue of maintaining blood sugar balance, it is important to have an understanding of how foods affect you. Glycemic Index is a way of categorizing foods and their effects on the body. Typically after eating a carbohydrate rich meal, or foods containing sugar, the blood sugar levels in the body will rise. Some carbohydrates will cause a sudden spike in blood sugar levels while others will cause a less sudden rise inRead More →