In this What's Up Wednesday episode of the Gaining Health Podcast, host Karli Burridge reviews the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity by Francesco Rubino et al., which is a commentary published March 3, 2023 in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Journal. In the commentary, the authors discuss the issues with diagnosing obesity based on BMI alone, and present us with a solution that they are currently working on.

To view the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(23)00058-X/fulltext

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If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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Obesity Medicine is rapidly expanding worldwide! In this episode, host Karli Burridge speaks with Dr. Steven Teoh, a family medicine physician and obesity specialist from Malaysia. Steven shares his journey of literally traveling accross the globe to obtain the highest level of obesity medicine training he could find, and shares how he is bringing back this knowledge to his home country of Malaysia, where he is in the process of developing a comprehensive obesity center. While he, like many clinicians worldwide, has faced challenges, he reminds us of the wisdom we often share with patients- take it one step at a time, and don't become discouraged!

Dr. Steven (Soo Huat) Teoh

MD (USM), MMed Family Medicine (USM), FASLM, AM (Mal)
 Clinical Fellowship in Bariatric Medicine (Ottawa, Canada)
 SCOPE National Fellow (World Obesity Federation)

Steven is an accomplished family medicine specialist, obesity medicine physician, and medical lecturer. He completed his family medicine residency training in 2017 and furthered in obesity care through the University of Ottawa bariatric medicine clinical fellowship and the Cleveland Clinic's international obesity medicine preceptorship program in 2022. Upon his return to Malaysia, Steven established an obesity medicine practice in the University of Science Malaysia and also practices as a visiting obesity medicine physician at a local private hospital. Steven's commitment to obesity medicine has earned him numerous accolades, including being named a SCOPE National Fellow by the World Obesity Federation, a member of the first SCOPE Leadership Program, and the recipient of the Obesity Medicine Association's prestigious Peter G. Lindner Award. He is also a Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Steven is actively involved in several professional organizations, serving as a committee member of the Obesity Medicine Association and a member of Obesity Canada, the Obesity Action Coalition, and the Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity. He is passionate about reducing community stigma towards people living with obesity and advocates for evidence-based, non-biased treatment for all patients.

To connect with Steven, you can find links to his social media outlets HERE

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If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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Medications like Ozempic (aka semaglutide, a medication approved for type 2 diabetes) and Wegovy (also semaglutide, but at a slightly higher dose, and indicated for obesity),  are all over the media, resulting in high demands and even medication shortages.
In response to the high demand, and the limited insurance coverage for these medications, some compounding pharmacies are offering compounded peptides, like semaglutide, and some clinicians are offering these compounded medications to their patients. What are we to make of this? Are these medications safe? Effecive? Legal? How should we approach this tricky subject?
Fortunately, the Obesity Medicine Association has given us guidance on this topic, through their position statememt on compounded peptides. Listen in to get the highlights on the position statement!

For the full article, click HERE

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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In this episode, Karli Burridge interviews Dr. Stephen Devries about nutrition and lifestyle training for clinicians. They discuss the lack of nutrition training in medical education, and how, as Director of the Outpatient Heart Center at the University of Illinois,  Dr. Devries became interested in nutrition for cardiac patients. They also discuss how the integration of nutrition and lifestyle into the medical curriculum is evolving, and Dr. Devries provides some great nutrition education resources for clinicians and their patients. 

Dr. Stephen Devries is a preventive cardiologist and Executive Director of the educational nonprofit Gaples Institute as well as Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At the Gaples Institute, he has directed the development of award-winning nutrition learning programs targeted at both professional and public-facing audiences.

His training in Internal Medicine was at the University of Michigan; Cardiovascular subspecialty training at Washington University in St. Louis, and Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona with Dr. Andrew Weil.

Previously, he has served as the Director of the Outpatient Heart Center at the University of Illinois and later, as Associate Professor at Northwestern University.

He is one of the few authors invited to write chapters for both the most widely read textbooks in both conventional cardiology as well as in integrative medicine. Additionally, I authored "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Cholesterol and co-edited the textbook "Integrative Cardiology" with Dr. James Dalen.

His work in nutrition and integrative care has been featured on National Public Radio and PBS.

To learn more about the Gaples Institute: https://www.gaplesinstitute.org/

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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For this episode of What's up Wednesday, obesity specialist Karli Burridge reviews a recent study titled "Effectiveness of a population-scaled, school-based physical activity intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity" by authors Petra Jurić, Gregor Jurak, Shawnda A. Morrison, Gregor Starc, and Maroje Sorić. 

This study was published in the Obesity Journal Volume31, Issue3, March 2023.

For the full study, click on the link below:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.23695#:~:text=Conclusions,children%20needing%20support%20the%20most.

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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This week on the Gaining Health podcast, we interview the Queen of Obesity Medicine herself, Dr. Donna Ryan! Dr. Ryan and Karli discuss how it was that Dr. Ryan became involved with many of the sentinel nutrition and obesity studies, how obesity management has progressed throughout the years, potential concerns with the newer antiobesity medications, and Dr. Ryan tackles some of the biggest questions about how to prevent the tsunami of obesity and obesity-related complications that will come our way unless we change course.

Dr. Donna Ryan is professor emerita of Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where, until retirement, she directed clinical research for 22 years. Her own research includes participation on the teams that developed and executed studies such as Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies (POUNDS Lost), Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD). Dr. Ryan’s continuing interests focus on the translation of effective weight management into primary care practices. She is the past president of The Obesity Society and has served as panel co-chair to revise the NIH-supported evidence-based Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. Her scholarly activities include authorship of more than 200 original publications and 45 books, chapters and reviews, primarily in the field of obesity.

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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In this episode of What's Up Wednesday, Karli reviews the newly released World Obesity Atlas 2023.
This publication of the World Obesity Atlas marks the publication of the fifth annual World Obesity Atlas. Each Atlas has reported estimates for national obesity prevalence levels and trends, and each has also focused on a theme. This year’s theme is the economic impact of overweight and obesity and project how the economic impact will change by 2035.
Karli reviews the data, and discusses what each of us can do to prevent the devastating projections for rising obesity rates that will impact billions of adults, and millions of children worldwide, unless we make significant changes.

For the full publication of the World Obesity Federation's World Obesity Atlas 2023, click HERE

To learn more about, and to support the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, click HERE

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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Lifestyle therapy, inlcuding nutrition, exercise, and behavioral health, is crucial for improving our patient's health and wellness, and is the cornerstone of obesity management. However, many clinicians struggle with finding the time, or having the resources to offer intensive lifestyle therapy.  In this week's episode, Karli speaks with Zach DeCoster, an exercise specialist and manager at Revolution Physical Therapy and Weight Loss, where they collaborate with healthcare providers to offer the lifestyle therapy components of obesity care. They discuss the importance of comprehensive care, individualizing care, overcoming barriers to care, and their visions of the future of obesity management. 

Zach DeCoster is the Weight Loss Program Manager at Revolution Physical Therapy and Weight Loss , where he manages a multi-disciplinary team of physical therapists, registered dietitians, and licensed clinical social workers and therapists across 13 locations throughout the Chicagoland area. Previously, he was the Fitness Operations Manager at Elevated Living where he organized fitness programing and events in over 120 residential high rises across 12 states. He graduated from Loyola University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science with minors in Biology and Anthropology, and he is an ACSM certified Exercise Physiologist, an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and an NCSF certified Personal Trainer.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionPTWL

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Eating are HOT topics in the world of nutrition therapy. But what does the data show? And which regimen of intermittent fasting is most effective?

Listen in as Karli Burridge dives into the latest research and metaanalyses on intermittent fasting, as she reviews several of the articles in the recently published Special Edition of the Obesity, a Research Journal on Time-Restricted Eating.

Special Issue of Obesity, a research Journal: Volume 31, supplement 1, February 2023

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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In this week’s episode of the Gaining Health podcast, host Karli Burridge speaks with Dr. Carolynn Francavilla about how Dr. Francavilla got started in obesity medicine, nutrition, starting her own practice, integrating obesity medicine into primary care, pregnancy and postpartum weight management, breastfeeding, and much more!

Dr. Carolynn Francavilla is a family physician and diplomate of the American board of obesity medicine.  She owns green mountain partners for health in Denver Colorado where she practices obesity and family medicine.  She is on the obesity medicine associations board of trustees. She has created tools for clinicians on the platform www.helpyourpatientsloseweight.com and has a podcast for the public about weight and health called the Dr. Francavilla Show.

Check out the Dr. Francavilla Show Podcast: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-francavilla-show/id1654260586

www.helpyourpatientsloseweight.com

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https://linktr.ee/doctorfrancavilla

www.obesitymedicine.org

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The Gaining Health Podcast will release a new episode monthly, every second or third Wednesday of the month. Episodes including interviews with obesity experts as well as scientific updates and new guidelines for the management of obesity.

If you're a clinician or organization looking to start or optimize an obesity management program, and you want additional support and resources, check out the Gaining Health website! We offer a Roadmap to starting an obesity program or practice, pre-recorded Master Classes, digital resources including patient education materials and office forms, and much more!
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