Tag Archives: Obesity Medicine

A diet of junk food and ultra-processed food increases the amount of visceral fat deep in your abdominal cavity. What you drink matters too. One small change you can make to decrease your body’s fat burden is to change the type of beverages you drink. Let’s look at three types of beverages to avoid, and two you should drink if you have too much visceral fat. [Read more]

Fatty liver disease is the name given to a condition in which the liver’s healthy, reddish-brown tissue becomes streaked with fatty deposits. [Read more]

The struggle to lose weight and get slim has become an obsession that has fed an entire industry with over 30 billion dollars per year since 1989. We know and understand that an overabundance of body fat can lead to metabolic syndrome and put us at risk for heart disease, diabetes, joint diseases and respiratory dysfunction. [Read more]

The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest association of physicians in the United States, has officially recognized obesity as a disease. [Read more]

Weight loss can mean big changes in your appearance, energy levels and physical abilities, but it can also dramatically improve your health. [Read more]

With obesity recognized as a disease, we are all forced to change the way we think. But is America ready? [Read more]

Think you know all there is to know about weight loss? It’s time to challenge yourself with these seven common weight loss myths! [Read more]

When we’re trying to lose weight, we tend to think that fat is fat. It’s all bad, and we want to get rid of as much of it as possible. [Read more]

As a finely tuned system, your body has certain levels of hormones, lipids and sugars that must be maintained. [Read more]