Habits/Mindset

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

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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Obesity Action Coalition: Setting the Record Straight

Valerie Sutherland, MD

Apr 2, 2022
3 min

Obesity Action Coalition: Setting the Record Straight

Losing weight and keeping it off is difficult enough for many reasons. Add to the intrinsic difficulty the mixed messages people get, the...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Feb 26, 2022
4 min

Week 8: Making Weight Loss Last

Congratulations! You have now gotten down all of the integral parts of weight loss! Look at all of the wonderful things you are doing:...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Feb 19, 2022
6 min

Week 7: Celebrating Your Victories!

Congratulations! You are on Week 7 and half way through a 12 week program. This is a fun week. We are going to celebrate your victories!...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Feb 12, 2022
4 min

Week 6: Take Back Your Mealtime

Congratulations! You are on your sixth week of your program! If you are doing a 12 week program, which is typical for women losing about...

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Valerie Sutherland, MD

Jan 22, 2022
3 min

Week 3: Trust Your Body

Congratulations! Each week, you are getting closer to your goal! You have completed two weeks of a very low calorie diet/protein sparing...

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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.