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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Sep 3
- 7 min
Frustrated with Weight Loss Medication Shortage?
Many people experienced the benefits of weight management medications, only to find that all the pharmacies are out of them everywhere....
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Apr 1
- 4 min
Erythritol in the News
A recent article published in Nature Medicine reported an association between erythritol and cardiovascular events in humans as well as a...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Feb 11
- 3 min
DBT: Healthy Habits for the Mind (& Body)
One’s mind is just as important to their overall health as their body. In some cases, a healthy mind is a necessary component for a...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jan 25
- 2 min
Big Benefits from Modest Weight Loss
Have you ever been told that you should lose so much weight that it seemed too daunting to even try? Has a doctor ever told you that you...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Mindfullness Meditation: Harnessing your Inner Power
If humans are mostly creatures of habit, as noted in the acclaimed book, “The Power of Habit”, and much of our health and wellness (and...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Oct 8, 2022
- 5 min
Medications vs. Lifestyle in Weight Loss
There is a recent “news cycle” in weight loss medication. Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) was approved to treat Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on May...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min
An Ounce of Prevention
Preventive and routine care is care that helps prevent health problems or finds them before they become serious. Examples of common...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Aug 20, 2022
- 4 min
Rainier Medical Weight Loss Program Top 10 FAQs
August is glorious in the Pacific Northwest! Many people enjoy travel and special events. It is hard to believe that Fall and Back to...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Aug 13, 2022
- 2 min
Trauma, Abuse and Obesity
After finally reaching a healthier weight after having obesity for decades, some people have unexpected reactions to their new bodies....
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Aug 6, 2022
- 3 min
Sitting is the New Smoking
Last week, we read about making over the home environment to be conducive to a healthy lifestyle, especially healthy food, limited screen...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jul 30, 2022
- 6 min
Healthy Home Makeover
Before the pandemic, I would have said that many people spend as many waking hours at work as they do at home. Now, many people spend a...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jul 23, 2022
- 5 min
Alcohol & Health: Friend or Foe
Alcohol has somehow managed to take a significant place in our society. Primarily in the form of ethyl alcohol (ethanol), it has occupied...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jul 16, 2022
- 4 min
Making Yourself “Hard to Kill”
Part of healthcare is preventative, or trying to keep people from getting sick, and another part is treatment once a person is sick or...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jul 4, 2022
- 5 min
The Double Epidemic: Mental Illness & Obesity
What is the link between depression and anxiety? If you are concerned about both, how do you address them both at the same time? Which...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jun 26, 2022
- 4 min
Stress: Hidden but Harmful
Stress: it seems to have become an omnipresent thing in so many people’s lives for the past two and a quarter years or more. While stress...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jun 18, 2022
- 3 min
Shame, Anxiety & Weight Bias
Yesterday, it hit me once again; I failed my patients. In April 2020, faced with the start of the Covid pandemic, school closures, and...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Jun 4, 2022
- 6 min
Body Image, Disordered Eating & Obesity
Obesity is a medical disease characterized by a chronic metabolic dysregulation of energy in which there is a higher than normal weight...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- May 21, 2022
- 3 min
Ending Weight Cycling, Part 2
Very Low Calorie Diets using meal replacements have been well studied as a medical protocol for both non-surgical treatment of obesity...
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Valerie Sutherland, MD
- May 7, 2022
- 5 min
Out with the Old: Ending Weight Cycling
For better or for worse, managing weight is a lifetime journey. Obesity Medicine is the specialty of diagnosing and managing the chronic...
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