Exercise, Activity & Fitness

Apr 30, 2022
4 min

Exercise: Balanced is Best!

Exercise is very exciting because it so quickly changes how you feel and how your body works. While all types of exercise provide...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Mar 12, 2022
3 min

Week 10: Hitting the Wall

Congratulations! You have completed 9 weeks on a 12 week journey! You are three quarters of the way there! It is like mile 20 of a...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Jan 29, 2022
6 min

Week 4: Exercise With a Purpose

Congratulations! After 3 weeks on the protein sparing modified fast, you are likely fully adapted to using ketones converted from stored...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 20, 2021
6 min

Physical Fitness: More than Your BMI

Did you know that physical fitness is so important to your health that the American College of Cardiology recommends that it gets...

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Sarcopenic Obesity: The Importance of Body Composition

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Nov 6, 2021
5 min

Sarcopenic Obesity: The Importance of Body Composition

The most commonly used metric to define obesity is the body mass index (BMI). Fortunately, weight for height, without accounting for the...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Oct 30, 2021
4 min

The Perfect Week

The Perfect Week In this week's blog, I am pulling it all together into an example of a “perfect day,” including a weekday and a...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Aug 28, 2021
3 min

Fitness- the Most "Vital" Vital Sign?

We have read in recent blogs about physical activity and exercise training; today we are reading about their end result:...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Aug 21, 2021
4 min

Lift Weights, Burn Fat

Last week's blog was about an exercise prescription, which, for adults, is recommended to feature three components: resistance training,...

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Exercise Prescription - the Only Prescription You Want.

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Aug 7, 2021
8 min

Exercise Prescription - the Only Prescription You Want.

In my old practice, I used to spend most of my time writing prescriptions (many of which the patients did not want!). In my current...

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Misconceptions of Exercise and Weight Loss

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Jun 21, 2020
5 min

Misconceptions of Exercise and Weight Loss

Myth #1: Being active is the same as exercise A common phrase heard by those of us who work in weight loss and obesity medicine is “I...

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Experts in medically supervised very low calorie diet programs and anti obesity pharmacotherapy in the setting of comprehensive longitudinal treatment for the chronic condition of overweight/obesity.

Experts in medically supervised very low calorie diet programs and anti obesity pharmacotherapy
in the setting of comprehensive longitudinal treatment for the chronic condition of overweight/obesity.