Obesity and Life Expectancy by Maurice Larocque, M.D. At a time when researchers are talking about an obesity epidemic and that many people tend to under-estimate the consequences of obesity on their physical health, two studies published in 2003 recently caught our interest: : Repeated tries to lose weight (even […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]