April 10, 2019
The excesses of bariatric surgery While bariatric surgeons admit that they do not really know what they are doing by intervening on the digestive tract to create chronic malabsorption, the fashion is to prescribe these interventions systematically or almost for all cases of morbid obesity. Supposedly: this is the only way […]
March 26, 2019
Stop fooling yourself! by Maurice Larocque, M.D. I’ve been practicing medicine for more then 40 years and have seen tens of thousands of overweight patients, but I’ve yet to see anyone who was truly happy with his condition, both physically and psychologically. Now, there are weight loss and maintenance methods […]
January 30, 2019
Protein is best to help you keep the weight off! The results of a new research on weight maintenance have been published in the reputed International Journal of Obesity. (International Journal of Obesity). Thirteen of the world’s most reputable researchers have worked together to identify which diet is best at […]
January 18, 2019
New research: Neurocognitive and Hormonal Correlates of Voluntary Weight Loss in Humans Insufficient responses to hypocaloric diets have been attributed to hormonal adaptations that override self-control of food intake. We tested this hypothesis by measuring circulating energy-balance hormones and brain functional magnetic resonance imaging reactivity to food cues in 24 […]
October 16, 2018
What is the Mental Weight Questionnaire? It is the measure of your behavior in the face of food. It’s not how you see yourself. This is how you behave. In fact, MW is the psycho-behavioral explanation of your overweight problem. It does not take into account your genetics, your metabolism, […]
September 9, 2018
Understanding your metabolism Human beings, like any other thing in the universe, cannot escape the laws of thermodynamics. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. Food serves as fuel and raw materials for the entire body. The balance between what goes into the machine and what is used […]