Is Your Healthcare Provider (Physician, Dietitian, Practitioner) Overweight??
Overweight or obese physicians were less likely to discuss weight loss with heavy patients: only 18% of these doctors discussed losing weight with their patients while 30% of normal weight physicians did. More interestingly, 93% of doctors diagnosed obesity in their patients only if they believed their own weight was equal to or less than […]
Weight Watchers Eyes A New Clientele: Children
So this is where we are headed… while I applaud the attention we must all place on this urgent issue, as a species we have gone from food scarcity and malnutrition to food excess and the malnutrition of overconsumption, in less than 30 years out of a 2-3 million year history. Maybe it’s not an […]
Breaking News?
According to a “NEW” study published in Obesity, “lifestyle interventions focused on altering dietary and physical activity habits using behavioral strategies can produce sustained weight loss among African Americans and Hispanics who have type 2 diabetes (T2D)” Which ivory tower have they been living in or is this new information to their sources of funding? […]
About Metainflammation
My clinic started as an interventional pain clinic, but I quickly realized that chronic pain was more than an isolated pathology of excessive pain. I have amazing tools that can relieve a patient’s symptoms, but I can’t reverse the course of the disease unless I treat the underlying cause, the metainflammation. Pain simply doesn’t become […]
Vendors of Death
The prevalence of vending machines that stock soda in schools, particularly elementary schools, is concerning for the overall health and well-being of the country. Sodas are made largely with high fructose corn syrup. Fructose activates the dopaminergic reward system more than glucose, and high fructose corn syrup is spiked with extra fructose, far beyond what […]
Frequent large spikes in insulin
Our eating patterns can influence insulin production and weight gain, and it’s important to give our bodies time to burn energy from food. Most people eat from the time they wake up until the time they go to bed — typically three main meals, multiple snacks, and often soda in between. This pattern leads to […]
Treating pain by treating inflammation
People wonder what weight has to do with experiencing pain and its treatment. I am an interventional pain physician, and sometimes I get the question, “Why are you so worried about a patient’s metabolic function? Why worry about their weight? Just treat the pain.” However, almost all of the patients in our clinics are overweight, […]
Demonizing Fat
Low-fat food doesn’t always mean healthy, and looking at fat negatively can actually lead to insulin resistance and weight gain. Demonizing fat because it has more calories per gram ignores the information transmitted in food to your body and encourages consumption of ultra-processed foods. If it says “low-fat” and you think it’s healthy, think again. […]
Are the Odds of Weight Loss in your Favor?
The standard advice of dietitians and physicians to those who want to lose weight is simple: eat less, move more. However, this advice doesn’t actually produce favorable odds for losing and maintaining a healthy weight. Using the standard calorie reduction approach recommended by the dietitians produces a probability of attaining a normal weight at 1 […]
The Secret to Healthy Weight
Our weight depends on a variety of factors, but one secret to a healthy weight is found in awareness of the role the hormone insulin plays in fat storage. It is wrongly assumed that consuming excessive calories is the root cause of obesity. However, a calorie of food energy has different metabolic fates depending upon […]