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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent studies have estimated that 1 in 4 adults are afflicted with Metabolic Syndrome. Many don’t even know that they are. Metabolic syn...

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

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

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, geneti...

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

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

What Is Your Relationship With Food? In this statement about Food and You each word is capitalized for a reason, because each word carrie...

When you've been consistently consuming carbs, your body has adjusted to relying on those carbs for energy. Therefore cutting out carbs c...

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

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

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

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 u...

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 p...

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