Obesity: It’s the Environment

Go Michelle Obama, go!

DR. PETE’S PERSONAL HEALTH BLOG: I feel compelled to write more on obesity having just seen this headline on MSNBC.com, “Path to obesity may begin before age 2 – doctors may need to address weight problems in infants.”

LifeShape Fitness Center Grand Opening Jan. 15

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BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – MIMA’s new LifeShape Fitness Center will host their Grand Opening on Friday, Jan. 15. The state-of-the-art facility, which will feature a high level of service, is located at 1130 Hickory St. in Melbourne.

Globe’s Best Diet Highlights Metabolic Syndrome Cure

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A typical food pyramid currently has at its base six servings of bread, cereals, pasta, and rice. According to the USDA and AHA, these foods are recommended as the mainstay of our diet, outnumbering all the other food groups.

Dr. Pete: Quit Worrying and Empower Yourself

Dr. Pete Weiss

AMERICA HAS TAKEN a wrong turn on the road to health and wellness. What’s missing in this national health care debate is serious discussion about what individuals should be doing for themselves.

MIMA To OpenLifeshape Fitness Center in January

LIFESHAPE PERSONAL TRAINER, Christie Brandolini, works with each LAGB patient. Christie has been training patients who have an adjustable gastric band since 2007 and finds it very rewarding to see how far these patients have come.

MIMA patients will have a nice gift waiting for them in January, 2010, as a new, state-of-the-art 1,500-square foot fitness center nears completion.

So Simple, Even a Caveman Could Diet

MAN HAS HAD half a million years’ experience with diet.  In caveman  days,  there were no dieticians or physicians;  they survived in spite of their total ignorance of nutritional requirements or recommendations.

Culled from Brevard County, Florida-based Dr. Raymond Adamcik’s extensive global research and more than 30 years of medical expertise, The Globe’s Best Diet debunks dangerous fad diets and the low-fat lie and helps you learn how to savor the rich, pleasurable experience of eating well.

Laparoscopic Weight Loss Surgery

DR. PATRICK DOMKOWSKI’s (second from left) team consists of (left to right) Lori Frame, Bariatric Coordinator; Kim Hare, Financial Advocate;  Veronica Gonzalez,   Assistant Coordinator, and Dr. Stephen Cotton, Psychologist.

Obesity is now recognized as the leading cause of preventable death after lung cancer in America. For patients not wishing to have a long-term implanted medical device, the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is an effective alternative.

LIFESHAPE Receives LAP-BAND Accreditation

Dr. Mark Fusco

LIFESHAPE Advanced Bariatrics Center of Florida recently received accreditation in the LAP-BAND Total CareTM Program, a comprehensive set of clinical and operational best practices designed to optimize patient outcomes before and after undergoing a LAP-BAND procedure.

Obesity and Diabetes – A Fat Issue

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FAT CELLS have a remarkable capacity for taking up fat, and if you continue to eat a lot of fat, they enlarge and new cells are generated.

Food Addiction and Obesity

LESLEY BELL, registered nurse and behavior specialist at Physician Weight Loss Centers in Suntree, counseling Diane Thomas on the importance of discussing her weekly results and behavior patterns that resulted in this week’s weight loss. Behavior modifications classes are a requirement at Physicians Weight Loss Centers.

FOOD ADDICTION, obesity, and weight loss diets are not the most enjoyable discussion topics at the holiday party or at the family dinner table, but beginning to think, talk, and take action on these issues can drastically improve your quality of life and can even save it.

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