4 Reasons to Use the Smart BEAT Blood Pressure Cuff
Maintaining normal blood pressure is a critical aspect of cardiovascular health especially in patients with a history of diabetes. Blood...
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Andrew Rawlings
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
4 Reasons Why The SCAN Smart Glucometer is Right For You
Monitoring your blood sugar is a vital aspect of health for individuals with a history of diabetes or prediabetes. For these individuals,...
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Vikram Mangat
- Sep 1, 2019
- 2 min
How to Manage Patient Expectations?
The key to successfully managing patient expectations is accurate foreshadowing. As a provider your job is to guide patients towards good...
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Anusha Yedla
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
How Weight-loss Can Help Hypertension?
Of the many health risks that come with obesity, hypertension is definitely a very common one. Hypertension, more commonly known as high...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
Content Creation 101 for Physicians
In a previous blog post titled ‘A Doctors Survivor Guide to Social Media in 2019’ we mentioned the importance of creativity, context,...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 24, 2019
- 2 min
The 5 Stages of Change
Change is a gradual process. For that reason, scientists and psychologists have broken it down into 5 different stages. Each stage of...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 23, 2019
- 2 min
5 A's of Obesity Medicine
1. Ask Before jumping into any treatment ask for permission to discuss body weight. It’s important you use friendly questions to gauge...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 21, 2019
- 2 min
Personalized Treatment Plans for Obesity
Personalized treatment plans are imperative to successful and sustainable weight-loss. Every single human being is different. Everyone...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Aug 14, 2019
- 2 min
Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
Recent studies have estimated that 1 in 4 adults are afflicted with Metabolic Syndrome. Many don’t even know that they are. Metabolic...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Aug 11, 2019
- 3 min
4 Different Types of Weight-loss Surgeries
Bariatric surgery is a treatment option available for patients diagnosed with severe obesity. Bariatric surgery is undertaken not only...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Aug 8, 2019
- 3 min
6 Common Misconceptions about Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery is a huge step in many people's weight loss journey. Unfortunately, there is a lot of stigma behind opting for...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Aug 7, 2019
- 2 min
Genetics and the Onset of Obesity
A lot of our experiences over time are what form us into who we are today. While these external factors have a great effect on us,...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 6, 2019
- 2 min
Giving Patients All Their Treatment Options
Self-awareness is a word that needs to be used more in the medical weight-loss community. If medical providers spent less time preaching...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Aug 5, 2019
- 2 min
4 Diet Tips to Reduce Your Chance of Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic and progressive condition that affects the way your body controls the amount of sugar in its blood. This...
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Dr. Harminder Kaur
- Apr 22, 2019
- 3 min
Binge Eating Disorder 101 with Dr. Kaur
What Is Your Relationship With Food? In this statement about Food and You each word is capitalized for a reason, because each word...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Oct 22, 2018
- 1 min
Now You Know: Carb Withdrawal
When you've been consistently consuming carbs, your body has adjusted to relying on those carbs for energy. Therefore cutting out carbs...
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Aamna Siddiqui
- Sep 25, 2018
- 1 min
The Link Between Obesity and Mental Illness
Seventy-three million Americans have obesity, and this number is only increasing. In order to stop this epidemic, we must analyze our...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 29, 2018
- 1 min
Now You Know: Accountability 101
When selecting a weight- loss program it is important to join one that promotes accountability. Accountability is the secret ingredient...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 23, 2018
- 1 min
Now You Know: Stress Eating 101
Stress eating is defined as consuming food in response to your feelings. Another term for it is called emotional eating. It occurs when...
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Vikram Mangat
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
What To Look For In A Weight-loss Clinic?
Finding the right weight-loss clinic is one of the hardest parts about losing weight. Messing up on this can lead to a discouraging and...
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