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Category Archives: Tip of the Week
Are you really gluten intolerant?
March 9, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD Do you really have a problem digesting gluten? An NPR story recently covered this growing trend of Americans avoiding gluten. One third of Americans claim to be cutting down on products with … Continue reading
Tips of the Week: Cleaning up your web browser and turning off wireless router
February 17, 2013 Here are a couple of computer tips for you. First, we recommend using Firefox as your browser. It is much safer and less predatorial than the the others. However, even it can get bogged down with unwanted … Continue reading
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The best source to monitor the non-blizzard
Update February 9, 8:00 AM: At most, another inch of snow fell since 1:00 AM, leaving only a total of 5 inches on the ground. It seems to be melting on the streets already. There are no power outages and … Continue reading
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Tip of the Day: Try De Cecco pasta
January 24, 2013 By Steven E. Greer The excellent long-running PBS show Cook’s Country recently taste tested the various commercially available dried pastas and concluded that the brand De Cecco was the best. The test kitchen here at DowntownTV did … Continue reading
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Tips of the Week: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and how to cure it
January 23, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD Thanks to a few medical doctors, most notably Robert Lustig of UCSF, it is becoming known that humans can develop fatty liver disease even if they do not consume alcohol. Certain foods … Continue reading
Tips of the Week: buy a juicer
January 23, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD The WSJ features an article today about the growing popularity of “juicing”, which is drinking vegetable juices made by special machines at home. The basic concept is that it is more palatable … Continue reading
Tip of the Week
November 11, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD Here’s a great tip for surgeons and food handlers alike. Cuts on the hand are a fact of life. A regular Band-Aid won’t work for surgeons who have to scrub in the … Continue reading
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Tip of the Week: Why you should use Twitter
October 24, 2012 By Steven E. Greer The demographics of Battery Park City are such that very few people use Twitter and Facebook. We will have 14,000 views of BatteryPark.TV this month, but only have 68 Twitter followers on @BatteryParkTV. … Continue reading
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Tip of the Week: The best way to monitor storm Sandy
October 28, 2012 The TV weather and local politicians are very unreliable with weather predictions relating to hurricanes. TV hypes the worst case scenario for a ratings boost, and politicians cannot risk the mistakes of President Bush with Katrina. The … Continue reading
Tip of the Week: Buy everything you can through Zappos
October 15, 2012 By Steven E Greer, MD Like most men, I would rather do accounting or watch The View than shop for clothes in Manhattan. Not only is it time consuming and a $40 cab fare to schlep to … Continue reading
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