Dr Primack | Scottsdale Weight Loss

Weight Loss and Diet Help Knee Pain

Posted: Jan 17 in Our Blog by

One of the most common reasons that patients seek weight loss treatment at our center is knee pain. Most of this pain results from osteoarthritis causing degradation and breakdown of the knee joint. This knee damage results in knee pain, tenderness, stiffness and locking. Weight loss brings hope for many people with knee pain.

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Bariatric Surgery Helps Mortality by a Small Amount

Posted: Jan 10 in Our Blog by

In a recent editorial in JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) from the most recent issue, the author found that after reviewing 20 years of outcome studies of patients having bariatric surgery either rou-en-y gastric bypass (the current most common surgery), lap band placement or vertical banded gastroplasty (not commonly performed) that mortality is lessened.

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FDA’s Removal of HCG Supported by Obesity Specialists

Posted: Dec 12 in Our Blog by

The American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP) supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to remove homeopathic HCG weight loss products from the market. As the FDA’s news release reported, there are no FDA-approved HCG drug products for weight loss, and there is no substantial evidence that HCG increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction. ASBP Trustee Craig Primack, MD, has served as ASBP’s spokesman on HCG for many years, and stated, “As a society, we continually strive to find better weight loss treatments. Obesity is a chronic disease which is best treated by a physician who specializes in weight loss and practices medicine based on sound scientific principles. Unfortunately, HCG does not live up to those standards.”

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Weight Loss is Best Provided by a Bariatrician – Medical Obesity Specialist

Posted: Nov 16 in Our Blog by

The outcome of a recently published diet study was that commercial diets are better than primary care doctors’ treatment. This was reported this morning on yahoo news. I agree. Treatment of weight should be very individualized. Primary care physicians and their staff are not trained in the unique nuances of the problems of each person’s eating.

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Successful Ways to Keep Your Weight Off

Posted: Apr 12 in Our Blog by

Keeping weight off should really be your initial and your ongoing goal in a weight loss program. Current belief is that keeping off at least 5-10% of your initial weight is the goal of treatment. Many people in weight loss are able to keep off even more. It seems many of them have many things that they do that seem to help. Below I have summarized 2 of the studies that are actively looking at weight loss maintenance.

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Food and Diet Supplements For Weight Loss: Do They Work?

Posted: Jan 31 in Our Blog by

In the February 2011 issue of the magazine Obesity, there is a great literature review of several commonly used food supplements. The goal of the article is to summarize and evaluate all readily available systematic reviews of food supplements for body weight reduction.

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Low self-esteem in childhood leads to adult obesity

Posted: May 31 in Our Blog by

A large study in England found children with low self-esteem and anxiety had a greater risk of obesity as adults. The study published in BMC Medicine this week studied 6500 children born in 1970, and studied them 30 years later.

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Attention Phoenix! Sugar is bad for us (Part 1)

Posted: Apr 25 in Our Blog by

The recommendation for added sugar is to eat or drink no more than 100 grams per day for a woman and 150 grams per day for a male.

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The Best Diet for Weight Loss

Posted: Apr 23 in Our Blog by

A good diet has 2 components: 1) good efficacy and 2) good compliance.

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Obesity… coming to a child near you

Posted: Apr 05 in Our Blog by

A new study that hit the newspapers today shows that among 4 year olds: nearly “13 percent of Asian children were obese, along with 16 percent of whites, almost 21 percent of blacks, 22 percent of Hispanics, and 31 percent of American Indians.

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