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Picture Perfect Pumpkin Pie

by Dr. Karl Nadolsky on 24 Nov, 2011

The tradition around here is to come up with a Leaner Living approved dessert for every Thanksgiving. We have done pumpkin bites, muffins, and bars in the past. This year it was decided to tackle everyone’s favorite turkey day pie (well maybe not everyone’s – apple and pecan pies are good too!). Just looking at what goes into the filling, regular pumpkin pie doesn’t

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ParmeLean Chicken

by Dr. Spencer Nadolsky on 29 Aug, 2011

I can’t think of many people who don’t like a good parmesan chicken dinner. The good news is that the chicken provides ample protein for getting lean, the bad news is that the added bread crumb crust provides ample carbohydrates/unnecessary calories for gaining fat. There is a solution! Just like our Mozzarellean Cheese sticks, we have substituted the fattening bread

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Lean Doc Diaries: From ICU to Leaner Living

by Dr. Karl Nadolsky on 26 Jul, 2011

In the second edition of “Lean Doc Diaries,” I proudly describe the story of a special patient who was on the brink of disaster in the ICU secondary to his obesity related metabolic diseases but survived the initial battle and then really took my education to heart and now is telling his story along with raising money to help others. His brief history included being overweight

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Super Bread

by Dr. Spencer Nadolsky on 8 Jun, 2011

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s SUPER BREAD! Okay so hopefully this bread isn’t flying in the air because that means you probably didn’t like it. I want to share with you a bread I recently tried at a coffee shop in Christiansburg, VA called Lucie Monroe’s.  One of my classmates told me they make a really good