Lose Weight Houston: Houston's Leaders in Bariatric Medicine

Lose Weight Houston

Perhaps no health issues are more emotionally charged than weight gain and weight loss. We need only to look at the plethora of diet books to sense this concern. Unfortunately, in spite of the abundance of information on diet, nutrition and the health problems associated with being overweight, the American population has been getting progressively heavier. As a matter of fact, Houston has been dubbed the US's Fattest City by Men's Health Magazine for many years now!

Shedding pounds amounts to shedding years, but fad diets are not the solution. Losing weight - and keeping it off - is no easy task.

Obesity is a chronic medical problem and should be:

Assessed, treated and managed as with any other chronic disease
Treated by a Medical Doctor who specializes in weight loss

Your waist-line is your life-line. The most common complaint I hear from my patients is that no matter what they do to lose weight, the needle on their scale keeps creeping up. As we get older, losing weight becomes more difficult. In fact, after the age of 50, 75% of Americans are overweight.

The fact is, with age, the human body tends to "get soft". It loses muscle mass, it loses luster. Our bodies build up fat. Everything seems to sag. Whether battling your weight is a new concept for you, or you've always been heavy, unless you take action, the numbers on the scale are going to continue to creep upward even faster than the number of candles you put on your birthday cake.

Between the ages of 35 and 40, weight gain seems to occur despite the attention we pay to what we eat and the time we devote to exercise. Battling weight gain becomes more and more difficult. Even if you are lucky enough to keep your weight stable, the loss of muscle mass means you won't look as trim as you did before.

There are plenty of books to advise you on what to eat to lose weight, each book containing advice that contradicts the next. If even one of those diets really worked, we wouldn't have a growing number of obese people in America and all other "diet" books would be swept off from the shelves.

A medically sound diet and exercise program are very important and can be considered a necessary start, but they are not enough. You must also address any hormonal deficiencies that underline almost all problems of excess weight. Any diet that doesn't take hormone modulation into account won't provide lasting results.

You don't have to throw up your hands, accepting the gradual buildup of unwanted pounds as an inevitable part of getting older. A weight loss program that includes the restoration of the proper balance of hormones together with scientifically based medically supervised diet will allow even those who have fought this battle unsuccessfully before to achieve, at last, a healthful stable weight - and tone up as well!

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