Are you feeling tired despite maintaining a healthy diet, sleeping at least eight hours a day, and exercising a few times a week? Is losing or maintaining your ideal weight suddenly a herculean task? Have you lost your enthusiasm for life for no reason? All these are signs of an imbalance, whether nutritional, metabolic, or…
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The Obesity Epidemic and What It Means for You
Having too much fat on your body might not seem as dangerous as a virus pandemic, but obesity can be just as damaging as any infectious disease to an individual. The U.S. obesity epidemic is readily apparent, with about 34% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents being obese – and these percentages continue…
How Medical Weight Loss Works
It is incredibly hard to lose weight, and it’s even harder to keep it off even if you do lose a pound or two. People often become more motivated to lose weight once the weight has led to health issues, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or osteoarthritis. If you are…
What Is a Medical Weight Loss Plan?
Weight loss is never easy. Fad diets or those with severe calorie restriction can do more harm than good – more often than not, any weight lost is gained back. This can make it harder to try again when you are serious about improving your health and appearance. You have probably heard that a medical…
Importance Of Understanding Body Composition
How do you assess your health? Is by through checking your weight or body mass index (BMI) measurement? Unfortunately, the weighing scale is not the sole indicator of good health. Not all who weigh less are guaranteed to be of good health. Moreover, the BMI is not accurate in the sense that it doesn’t really…
Weight Management with Type 2 Diabetes
Approximately 85% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight. In fact, type 2 diabetes and obesity are closely linked: If your pancreas has to keep working hard in order to produce enough insulin to regulate your blood sugar levels, this overexertion by the pancreas can contribute to developing type 2 diabetes. The disease is…
Different Types of Diets to Help You Lose Weight
There are various types of diets out there. There is no single diet that works for everyone. What worked for others’ weight loss journey might not work for you. There are also a lot of fad diets that become popular and seem to work for some people. However, most of them are either unhealthy or…
How Can Medical Weight Loss Improve Your Health?
In medical weight loss programs, health experts supervise patients toward losing weight safely, effectively, and with a better chance of achieving long-term results and keeping the weight off for good. This is done through nutritional counseling, motivational support, and possibly also through weight-loss injections and prescription-strength appetite suppressants. But medical weight loss doesn’t just help…
