We already know that the portable shade people have a higher risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and just about every disease imaginable. As an orthopaedic surgeon, I was often called upon to fix blubber-related injuries, which translates to asking your joints to carry a load much heavier than the design of your frame. It’s like loading a truck until the trailer rides on the wheels, which is an invitation to disaster.

The so called Health Reform Act will not help anybody who is overweight. (Or anyone else with a problem, either.) The reason is very simple. There is absolutely no provision in the reform that increases preventative care. Obese folks will head on down to the Obama clinics, where well meaning, but absolutely clueless, government health care officials will recommend whatever drug is bringing in big money to the treasury.

They certainly won’t be handing out any good advice, because after a few years, there will be fewer and fewer decent doctors still involved in the practice of medicine. Not only that, but they won’t even be allowed to tell you what all your options are, because some back room medical hack will be handing them all the solutions that will be fit to print.

Here’s what should be done.

Everyone that is overweight gets a Dr. Bill Food Card.

You must use it for all purchases of chow.

It would work like this:  You’re in the grocery store, and you add two big bags of potato chips to the cart, along with a 12 pack of soda. Then you dump in some frozen pizza, a box or two of Hot Pockets, and a box of donuts and a 3 gallon tub of ice cream. You roll up to the counter, hand the clerk your card, and you are immediately scanned. When the high tech scanner ascertains your weight, you are immediately denied checkout and forced back into the store, to reselect some real food.

You keep getting rejected, until you only have healthy food in your cart.

By golly…I think it’s a brilliant idea and just look at the built in exercise, that forces people to walk around and around, looking for the healthy food.

Or you could just do this on your own, without any help at all from benevolent government.

You could start by eating a good breakfast and getting some antioxidants. You do that by eating the color rainbow of fruits and vegetables. Then make sure you get some B vitamins and take my Powerhouse Omega Formula, an ultra pure, enteric coated, pharmaceutical grade fish oil:

https://www.favoriteformulas.com
Make sure you get some zinc. And be sure you get some vitamin D, by spending 20-30 minutes a day in the sun. A young physician friend of mine had his vitamin D level checked recently. His doctor wasn’t happy with the extremely low level he found. He ordered my friend to get out of his office and the hospital, get some sunlight every day and take a supplement.

My Powerhouse Omega Formula helps to protect us from different diseases, by keeping the heart beating at a slower, steady pace, stopping the clogging of arteries (atherosclerosis), reducing blood triglyceride levels, lowering blood pressure levels, increasing nitric oxide levels in the blood and tissues, and reducing inflammation, naturally.

But by losing weight, you can accelerate all those things and gain even more benefits.

Being a fat focker buys you a one way ticket to Davey Jones’ Locker, sooner, rather than later. Wise up and you won’t have to use Obamacare.

While Watson was a good story, you knew it wouldn’t last. So all the attention turned once again to Tiger Woods. For a five month layoff, I thought Tiger looked pretty good. He was paired with the unflappable K.J. Choi, who is a real “steady Eddie.” Choi and Woods were almost mirror images of each other, shooting virtually the same score for the entire tournament.

On Saturday, a guy that was hardly mentioned all week started putting a cramp in plans to recrown Tiger Woods. Phil Mickelson, who everybody said was playing poorly to start the year, was brewing up a little left-handed excitement. While Tiger was fighting troubles of his own poor judgement, Phil’s family has spent the last year fighting cancer. Both his mother and his wife Amy have breast cancer, and have been undergoing treatment. With all the Tiger hullaballoo, this didn’t get one one hundreth of the coverage accorded Tiger’s stable.

Mickelson said on Tuesday that it has been a very difficult year, trying to manage the golf and all it demands, with his family and all the extra demands brought on by a very difficult disease. He actually looked a little haggard, or maybe he just missed his haircut appointment.

As Sunday got started, the wheat started to separate from the chaff, or the real players started to go up and down the leader board. Westwood hung tough, then was tied by Mickelson. Then Westwood dropped and K. J. Choi tied Mickelson. Mickelson started his charge by getting a birdie on 12, then making an absolutely unbelievable shot on 13. Then another birdie, and the rest of the field, except for Westwood, started to fade away.

Although the television announcers tried to keep other players in the mix, you knew as Mickelson tee’d off at 16 that it was over. Phil put the nail in the coffin, with another birdie on 18.

Mickelson has now won the Masters three times. That puts him in some rare company. Names like Palmer, Nicklaus, Player, Snead…and of course, Tiger, along with that Brit…aye…Faldo, renowned for being the slowest golfer ever. If I operated like Faldo played golf, I would have only completed one hip job a week.

Here’s an observation of mine. For the last couple of years, Phil Mickelson has been improving his health. For years, he was distinguished by what many call man boobs and he had a stomach to match. Sunday he looked (except for the hair) as good as I’ve ever seen him. He has lost weight, he is visibly stronger and he exudes more confidence than I have ever seen him display.

He needs every bit of that swagger to win golf’s most prestigious prize, while his family is being battered.

If golf was looking for a good image, it doesn’t have to look too far. It was on display all week and the media just about missed it.

Follow Phil’s example and get yourself in tip top shape. You never know when you’re going to be tested.

Penne with Broccoli Rabe and Sausage

1 pound of penne, capellini, or orecchiette
8 ounces Italian sausage, chicken, turkey, or pork (casings removed)
6-10 cloves of garlic, finely minced
2 bunches broccoli rabe, about 2 pounds, trimmed and cut in 2, in lengths
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Fresh black pepper
Red pepper flakes
1 cup grated parmesan cheese

Bring 4 quarts of water to a rolling boil, in a large pot. Add 1 Tbsp of salt, then the pasta and cook according to instructions, for whatever pasta you are using. Drain pasta when al dente, but do not rinse.

While the pasta is cooking, cook the sausage until browned, in a non stick skillet. When browned, add the sausage to a food processor and pulse a couple of times. You just want to chop it so you get very small pieces, not turn it to mush (in this way, a small amount of sausage can flavor a large dish).

Return the sausage to the pan, add a little olive oil, the garlic, red pepper and cook for a few minutes. Then add the chicken broth and the broccoli rabe. Cover and cook a couple of minutes, until the broccoli rabe turns bright green. Uncover and cook, until most of the broth has evaporated. Add a little more olive oil and then, add the pasta. Mix it up and then, add about 2/3 of the parmesan and season with salt and pepper.

Turn it out onto a large platter, hit it with a little more olive oil and the rest of the cheese.

This should feed about six adults, very nicely.

When you combine my Powerhouse Omega Formula: ( https://www.favoriteformulas.com )…with all that wonderful garlic, olive oil and the broccoli rabe, you really are giving your body a tremendous cocktail, one that fortifies, as it flushes (and that garlic makes the fish oil’s omega-3′s into a net cholesterol lowering agent, as well).

Bon Apetit!

Along with any Big Pharma campaign comes what I call a disinformation avalanche. For quite some time, Big Pharma stooges (journalists), have been filling the word space with stories of toxic fish, high mercury levels, anti-green fish oil companies and other assorted garbage. This was all to lay the framework for Lovaza, which can now by prescribed by a doctor.

But if you really do some research and read the FDA application, there is very little at all said about the issue on contamination. There certainly is plenty of gobbledy-gook in the application, which is an extremely large part of any federal application.

What this means is that while the Big Pharma stooges mouth just exactly what they are told, raising all kinds of red herring reports about supplement manufacturers, there is virtually nothing in their federal applications about these issues.

I wonder why that is.

I can speculate a bit, my speculation being nine tenths correct, but because I wasn’t in the room, I can’t make this iron clad. But my speculation is that those issues were left out because Big Pharma absolutely knows that this contamination argument is patently false. But, it makes for good stealth marketing, so they are having someone else make their argument for them.

But the fact is that Lovaza and my Powerhouse Omega Formula, are judged by and meet exactly the same purity standards. But theirs are “blessed” by the FDA (the same FDA that approved Thalidomide, Vioxx and more recently,  Avandia). Lovaza does have a slightly higher dose of omega 3′s per capsule, but that comes at a much, much higher price tag.

The total EPA/DHA for Lovaza is 840mg per capsule.
The total EPA/DHA for my POF is 780mg per capsule.
The price of Lovaza is approximately $162.00 per month (retail).
The price of my POF is $59.00 per month (on continuity).

On an annual basis, that’s $1944.00 for Lovaza.

My Powerhouse Omega Formula is $708.00 a year. 

That’s $1236 EXTRA, per year, for an extra 60 mg. of omega-3′s per capsule. Do the math. Something just doesn’t seem right about that to me.

And, my POF has a special enteric coating. Lovaza does NOT. You’d think that for all that extra dough, they’d spring for an enteric coating, to virtually eliminate fish burps and aftertaste, but nooooo.

And since they are buying millions of units, they pay less than I do, to produce it. So it’s easy to see why they want you to switch to “prescription” Lovaza. But then again, this isn’t surprising, since they sat down with Obama and worked out a deal, to keep their companies in the money.

Now, instead of just paying for your own prescriptions, you are going to pay for everyone else’s, too. And at a much much higher rate. No money will ever be saved in this health care debacle, that’s for sure.

Except that if you’re smart, you’ll stick with me. Lovaza is the New Coke. We all know how long that lasted.

But it isn’t. This is a sort of lifetime achievement award and, while Jane Fonda has undoubtably achieved some successes, like selling zillions of workout tapes, giving her an award for that would be fine and dandy with me.

But this isn’t, and now I’m going to tell you why.

Back in the late 1960′s Jane Fonda, in addition to being an actress, was an anti-war activist and quite a vocal one. She also contributed large sums of money to these movements. I also don’t have any quibble with this. As Americans we are all entitled to dissent from the prevailing view and to contribute money to organizations that dissent.

But Fonda went much further than that. She openly sided with the enemy and took an infamous trip to Hanoi in 1968, where she publicly sided with the Communists and was directly responsible for the death and torture of American prisoners of war.

Here is a story about her trip from a pilot named Jerry Driscoll. Jerry Driscoll was the former commandant of the USAF Survival School and a F4E pilot, who was shot down and imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton.

He was dragged from a filthy stinking cell, cleaned, fed and dressed in clean PJ’s and ordered to describe…for a visiting American “Peace Activist” the lenient and human treatment he received.

He spat on Fonda, was clubbed and dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commander’s feet, which made the commander go beserk. In 1978, Jerry Driscoll still suffered from double vision, incurred from the beating by the camp commander.

Colonel Larry Carrigan spent 6 years in the Hanoi Hilton. His group was also cleaned up, fed and clothed in preparation for a “peace delegation” visit. They however, had devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand.

When they were paraded before Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man’s hand and asking questions like: “Aren’t you sorry you bombed babies? Aren’t you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors? Believing this had to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.

She took them all without missing a beat. At the end of the line…and once the camera stopped rolling…to the shocked disbelief of the POW’s…she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper.

Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan survived, which is how we know about this incident.

Throughout the intervening years, Fonda has refused all offers to debate survivors of the Hanoi Hilton.

She has received much favorable press in the last two decades, some of it actually praising her actions as the acts of a principled woman. But principled women do not commit acts of treason, which this very clearly was.

Baba Wawa needs to be reminded of this, and in a big way. Our current Commander in Chief would probably have gone with Fonda and done the same thing. He is only a small step away from betraying Israel, with his own people (us) not far behind. But remember, as Chris “Tingle” Matthews says, “I don’t understand why anyone would call him a socialist.” So you can see why it would be easy for him, and many others in the media, to call Fonda principled, when what she is in reality is a traitor.

To make a play on one of her movies, “They Shoot Traitors… Don’t They?” No…no we don’t. We send them to the Kennedy Center, with the President in attendance and we televise the whole disgusting spectacle.

Those of you taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula know better, because your brain is functioning much better than the average Joe. Healthy body, healthy brain. And when you get to the voting booththis November…send the incumbents home again.

Duke will have won the National Championship, by the time you read this.

The Yankees still have 161 games on the schedule. Remember that in 2009, they lost their first 8 games to the stinkin’ Bosox.

Donovan McNabb leaves the City of Brotherly Love for Abomination, er…Obamanation. I hope he has better luck than the Commander-in-Chief did picking his NCAA brackets. As the famous Dick Enberg would say…”Oh My!”

You may know that I live in close proximity to Tiger Woods, if being within 75 square miles counts for anything. I was just about ready to turn my tax return in to the government when I got some special mail last week. I opened the package and there it was: a ten million dollar check from Tiger, with a note that said, “Thanks for keeping your lip zipped…Eldrick”

Eldrick is the secret code name for all of us who are tight with Tiger. My ticket into the inner sanctum was his bad knee and we had a consulting rendezvous on that little boat he has parked hither and yon, along the coast. Since it was covered by a giant tarp when we consulted, I couldn’t see his knee all that well.

So I had to do what I like to call the Caveman exam. I hit him in the knee, or the general vicinity of his leg and depending on how loud he screamed, I guestimated what it would take to get him back in shape. I recommended that he have surgery of some sort and to find a doctor who had some really bright lights, so he could see what he was doing.

He must have taken me up on my suggestion, because there he was walking around Augusta with some of the people who were on his little boat, when I was there. At least, I think they were the same people, but like I say, it was pretty dark there. (The other thing that was strange…I guess it’s okay to say this, now that I have the ten million…everybody was wearing pillowcases…and they didn’t quite cover everything that needed to be covered.) But again, it was pretty dark under that tarp.

My Masters prediction is: Tiger wins! And the story will be bigger than…Powerball…which has a jackpot of…$125 Million. I had better get a ticket for that… in case this check from Eldrick turns out to be bogus.

You, too, can be a champion and without Tiger’s recent troubles. All you have to do is commit to improving your health and start taking my Powerhouse Omega Formula, an ultra pure, deep water, pharmaceutical grade fish oil, that has been assayed by an independent third party to be what I say it is.

Get yourself a Powerball ticket too. $125 million will buy a lifetime supply of my Powerhouse Omega Formula.

Hell…I’ll even autograph each bottle.

This particular bodybuilder recommended that you take mega doses of fish oil to start your day and he was actually saying that fish oil was a weight loss aid, which it isn’t.

Fish oil does not burn fat. It improves your metabolism, so that if you do the right things, such as eating right and exercising on a regular basis, you will have a better chance of losing weight than the average Joe, because your system is functioning better than his, or hers.

Mega dosing on fish oil is not a good idea either. If you haven’t taken fish oil before and you introduce it into your system at a high level, you are going to have to stock up on reading material, because you’re going to be sitting on the porcelain for long stretches. You had better lay in some extra Charmin, too.

Too much of anything is not a good idea, especially in the beginning. You would think that most folks would use a little common sense, but where fitness is concerned, most people go overboard and especially if they heard it from somebody they think looks good.

The guy that wrote me was suffering from more than every which way but loose. He had acid reflux and his breath had soured worse than milk on a 100 degree day in a car trunk. His guru had recommended taking 6 to 12 fish oil capsules at a time. He’s lucky his intestines are still in his body.

Not only that, but when you combine a second rate fish oil with big doses, you are really asking to be punished. My advice to him was to stop taking the cheap stuff, immediately and wait two weeks, before starting again, with a high quality fish oil, like my Powerhouse Omega Formula, at half a regular dose, and work his way up to a regular dose, over two weeks:

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If he’s concerned with burning fat and not his sphincter, he should eat fat burning foods, such as apples, broccoli, cabbage, figs, garlic, grapefruit, kiwi and spinach. There are many more, but that’s a good start.

The average apple is filling and has 81 calories. A cup of broccoli has 44 calories. These are things you can eat a bunch of. But don’t go hog wild…introduce this stuff into your diet slowly, too. Introducing 6 cups of spinach into your system…if you’ve never eaten it before, can also have you running to the porcelain.

Be sure you are moderate with the exercise too, especially if you’re over 40. Don’t go out there trying to win a race, before you have a few muscles in working order. There’s a reason that Marines are young.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

The first thing I wrote about was a crack smoker that managed to get tangled up with a gator. This genius was sitting on an embankment lighting up, when a 12 foot gator snatched him up. Luckily for the crackhead, there was a tree he could grab on and the gator couldn’t pull him under the water.

He and the gator fought to a draw, until daylight, when someone noticed the crackhead’s predicament and called rescue workers, who spent two hours extricating him. He needed about two hundred stitches to close the areas where the gator had a grip.

Then, there were the young female teachers, who were teaching teenage boys how to do the horizontal bop, before the legal age of consent. A couple of them were released on bond and went right back to teaching some more boys, which got them arrested a second time.

Now over in Clearwater (a short drive from Tampa, to the west), a man shot and killed his dog, after an argument with his wife. Now there is no shortage of loons in Clearwater, with it being the Vatican of Scientology and home to many a Shanghai Jesus.

Police responded to reports of gunshots and found a dead pooch and a passed out owner, in a Clearwater backyard. When the police searched the premises, they found 47 year old Yuri Solovyev, face down in the grass. The deceased 9 year old chow was a few feet away.

I suppose in Russia this is somewhat normal behavior, but his neighbors took a dim view, especially since one of the rounds meant for the dog went through their window.

The story is that Yuri had a big argument with his wife, who split the scene. He started drinking, became extremely intoxicated and eventually turned his gun on the dog, shooting it multiple times. This…in a strange way…would appear to be good news for the wife.

Police ascertained that Yuri was in the process of burying the dog, when he passed out. He was taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation, because of his high level of intoxication. I’m sure that took medical personel all of about 30 seconds to determine.

“He’s drunk. Transport him to jail and let him sleep it off there.” I certainly wouldn’t have admitted him, or wasted any time, or money on him. If his papers weren’t in order, I would have had him on a plane bound for Moscow, pronto.

But in the Obama justice system, he’ll be here for years and probably qualify for citizenship and social security, as well as health care. He may even be the guy standing in front of you, while you wait and wait for some faceless bureaucrat to approve or disapprove whatever procedure you need.

It’s enough to set you on edge and make your joints ache. Luckily…I have a little something for your joints and you don’t have to go to California smoke shack to get it. (That’s a “medical marijauna” storefront.) That’s where you get so buzzed, you forget why you came.

No…what I have is my Joint Health Formula, which can help you alleviate some of what you go through. It won’t cure you, but it will make things easier. I had a pretty good formula when I started, but when I added the New Zealand Green Lipped Mussel, I knew I had a real winner.

These fatty acids really promote anti-inflammatory activity and aid in the reduction of joint swelling. Combined with the other ingredients, there is even the possibility of regenerating degenerative cartilage:

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If you’re going to the Tampa area, bring your own water, or just visit Orlando.

The question was, “Which vegetable oil is the best to cook with and what’s the healthiest?”

The question is actually two questions and there are two answers.

First would be, “which is best to cook with?”

For that I would say peanut oil, although if you asked Mario Batali, there would be strong disagreement. Mario cooks everything in olive oil and having tasted his food a couple of times in New York, he makes a strong case. But personally, I prefer peanut oil.

I have a couple of reasons for this, which are as follows. Peanut oil can be heated to a higher temperature than olive oil and since I like to stir fry, this is important since that kind of cooking depends on high heat. I have been made aware that there are some olive oils that can be heated to quite a high temperature, but they generally are not available to the public. When something isn’t generally available, I don’t recommend getting it.

When you are frying something, the hotter the oil, the better. It seals the food quickly and the food doesn’t absorb as much oil. Peanut oil does a much better job of this than other oils, such as canola, sunflower and corn, and to my mind, it does not have any after taste. Of course…if you are frankly allergic, or peanut sensitive, you’re going to have to use something else.

Now…what’s the healthiest? You have to go with olive oil. Many studies on diet reflect that the European use of olive oil contributes to better diet. So it’s a tossup.

Here’s what to keep in mind, with regard to diet.

All vegetable oils contain 126 calories and 14 grams of fat per tablespoon. So just for the sake of argument, if you have a big salad and use 3 tablespoons of dressing, you have added 378 calories and 42 grams of fat. Over the long haul, that adds up to calories that you don’t need.

My advice about oil is to use it judiciously. You really don’t need as much as your eyes tell you is necessary and you can order salad dressings on the side. Then, try to get by using only half of what is provided. I personally don’t use fat free dressings, because they are usually loaded with sugar of some sort. That’s flat out worse for you overall, than is the oil, because it stimulates insulin secretion, which promotes fat in the body.

And you should be taking the King of Oils, which contains the omega-3 essential fatty acids (the good fats that you need), inside the softgel capsules of my Powerhouse Omega Formula. My pharmaceutical grade fish oil is the “grease” that keeps on giving, keeping your arteries in tip top shape, so that your engine gets all the good stuff you need to stay healthy, wealthy and wise:

https://www.favoriteformulas.com
As that kid said in a cereal commercial a while back, “Hey Mikey…try it…you’ll like it.”

But you need not worry about these things yourself, because the new AFD Diet works, even if you don’t follow it. And what could be easier than that? (Hefting Jello shooters might come to mind.) This new diet is simply too good to be true.

In Week 1, you get to drench all your food in butter…or pork fat. It doesn’t matter what it is…it could be Cheeto’s dunked in pork fat…or an Elvis sandwich dunked in butter.

Now y’all remember the Elvis. It was a whole loaf of pullman bread, filled with peanut butter and jelly and then stuffed with a pound of bacon, which was then fried on the grill, on all sides, in butter. Elvis once flew his entire entourage to Denver, picked up 50 of the sandwiches and then flew back to Graceland.

In Week 2, you get giant pancakes and sausage biscuits, with any kind of hash you like, and they serve it on huge platters, with donuts to mop up everything. You can drink Cokes till the cows come home and there are candy bars to keep your energy levels up all the time.

In Week 3, you get Pizza any time you like and it’s none of that thin style Cali-Forn-Ya stuff. No sirreebob, it’s all Chicago style, deep dish extravaganza and there are at least 100 toppings, including foie gras and caviar. Beer is the beverage of the week and it comes in Oktoberfest mugs, which hold about a gallon.

In Week 4, it’s fried everything. You name it…if you can fry it…you can eat it. The highlight of the week is burgers from a joint in Memphis, where they deep fry your burgers in grease that hasn’t been changed in 80 some years. You just haven’t lived, until you’ve had one of these. The dessert highlight is fried Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. Any cheesecake they make can be fried in beer batter.

From Week 5 on, it’s just rinse and repeat. The extra weight you’ve been carrying will just fall off as you gorge yourself and sleep off each meal. By the end of Week 7 or 8, you should be down 30 pounds or so.

Some wiseacre just had to ask what AFD stood for.

April Fool’s Day.

Because we all know that no diet can be successful if you just keep doing what you’ve always done.

Losing weight…and getting fit and healthy, requires that you make some new lifestyle changes. I’ve always recommended you take one step at a time and gradually phase out the bad choices, in favor of good ones.

Then…before you know it…you have started losing unwanted poundage. And believe me, nobody really wants to carry around that extra flubber, in spite of protestations to the contrary.

Start by getting my pharmacuetical grade fish oil. Then start taking it. It will help you start moving the sludge in your bloodstream out the door. Then stop drinking soda, or eating snack food. Do one thing to help yourself every week and in three months, you’ll have dropped some weight, without a lot of effort.

Then keep going. And every once in a while, treat yourself to one of your old favorites. (Once in a month.) You’re going to get a surprise sometimes…some of that stuff just doesn’t taste that good, after you give it up.

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Just don’t let me catch you eating an Elvis sandwich.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill