The key to successfully managing patient expectations is accurate foreshadowing. As a provider your job is to guide patients towards good health. Good health...

Of the many health risks that come with obesity, hypertension is definitely a very common one. Hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, is t...

In a previous blog post titled ‘A Doctors Survivor Guide to Social Media in 2019’ we mentioned the importance of creativity, context, and volume in the worl...

Change is a gradual process. For that reason, scientists and psychologists have broken it down into 5 different stages. Each stage of change summons differen...

1. Ask Before jumping into any treatment ask for permission to discuss body weight. It’s important you use friendly questions to gauge the patient’s readines...

Personalized treatment plans are imperative to successful and sustainable weight-loss. Every single human being is different. Everyone has different biologic...

Recent studies have estimated that 1 in 4 adults are afflicted with Metabolic Syndrome. Many don’t even know that they are. Metabolic syndrome is a group of ...

Bariatric surgery is a treatment option available for patients diagnosed with severe obesity. Bariatric surgery is undertaken not only for weight reduction b...

Bariatric surgery is a huge step in many people's weight loss journey. Unfortunately, there is a lot of stigma behind opting for bariatric surgery. Whether y...

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, genetics also play a large...

Self-awareness is a word that needs to be used more in the medical weight-loss community. If medical providers spent less time preaching their own values as ...

Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic and progressive condition that affects the way your body controls the amount of sugar in its blood. This type of diabetes is cau...

What Is Your Relationship With Food? In this statement about Food and You each word is capitalized for a reason, because each word carries equal weight in th...

When you've been consistently consuming carbs, your body has adjusted to relying on those carbs for energy. Therefore cutting out carbs can be a shock to the...

Seventy-three million Americans have obesity, and this number is only increasing. In order to stop this epidemic, we must analyze our thought patterns. Stud...

When selecting a weight- loss program it is important to join one that promotes accountability. Accountability is the secret ingredient to any program that p...

Stress eating is defined as consuming food in response to your feelings. Another term for it is called emotional eating. It occurs when people eat as an emot...

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 uphill battle. Withou...

While a high fiber diet is already well-known for its effects on the digestive system, it also may reduce the risk of many other health problems. Naturally, ...

86% of American workers sit all day long for their jobs and it is becoming a nationwide problem. Researchers have linked long periods of sitting with multipl...