A clinician explains how medical weight loss differs from commercial diets, focusing on disease prevention like heart disease and diabetes. A patient shares how identifying her individual medical causes led to successful weight loss.
The first thing I always tell people is that we're a medical clinic, so we are different than something like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig.
I've worked in the medical field, like 20 years, and so I really like that that he's a medical doctor and takes a medical approach. And they filled in a lot of the blanks for the medical piece that a lot of the different diet programs don't.
Also, one of our goals is that you're healthy. So we want to prevent disease. We want to prevent heart disease, prevent diabetes, prevent cancers, and also just make sure that your body's functioning the way that it's supposed to.
If you can prevent a disease, it's far more valuable to the person than waiting for the disease to develop and then trying to manage the disease. And I could only do that if I focused on two objectives, one being weight control with my patients, and the second being helping them to achieve excellent nutrition, which is my goal. For each and every patient, there is.
A medical reason behind what you're going through. Everybody's different. Everybody has a different story. In my story, it was there was something, and once I knew what that was, I was able to lose the weight.
When weight problems occur, there needs to be a medical solution. And I would encourage anybody needing to work on their weight, find somebody who's qualified, who's done their homework, who spent the hours studying nutrition, metabolism, energy, appetite situations, so they can truly give a comprehensive approach to this very difficult to manage problem.
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