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Improving Weight Management Outcomes Beyond the Scale

Dr. Robert Kushner December 18, 2024 No Comments

We are a weight-focused society but when it comes to managing weight long term, having a weight-only narrow focus can be detrimental. Throughout my 4-decade career I have stressed the importance of lifestyle modification being foundational for losing weight and achieving better health. Now with an average 15-20% weight loss with the new injectable obesity

Can Your Cell Phone Help You Eat Better, Move More, Stress Less?

Dr. Robert Kushner December 9, 2024 No Comments

One of my yearly medical student classes I teach at Northwestern University is helping our future physicians learn behavior change strategies to improve their own health. Examples of targeted health behaviors may include not exercising regularly, not eating enough fruits and vegetables, eating too many sweets or fast food, not getting enough hours of sleep

It’s Saturday Night! 3 Healthy Eating Nudges to Help you Stay on Track

Dr. Robert Kushner November 16, 2024 No Comments

Your Saturday night outings may be the one day of the week when you let your guard down and don’t pay much attention to what or how much you eat. Though weekends are a time to unwind and have fun – they don’t have to derail all the progress you’ve made during the week. Dinners

Healthy Eating Shortcuts

Dr. Robert Kushner October 10, 2024 No Comments

Healthy eating requires planning ahead. Though this does take some time, it doesn‘t have to be so time intensive. In this blog, I share some time-saving tips that help my family eat better and healthier. 1 – Try Convenient Apps for Shopping No time to go to the grocery store? Check out your neighborhood for

Managing Weight is Personal

Dr. Robert Kushner August 18, 2024 1 Comment

I learned long ago that generic weight loss advice doesn’t work well for most people. That’s because managing weight is personal, influenced by your likes and dislikes, health goals and personal challenges. Different people have different struggles managing weight, depending on who they are and how they live their life. This applies whether or not

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Expanding the Provision of Obesity Care

Dr. Robert Kushner August 12, 2024 No Comments

As an obesity medicine physician, I have been on a mission to train health care professionals about providing obesity care in their practices. Most recently, I spoke at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress where the room was packed with colleagues wanting to learn about new obesity care treatments. The timing was perfect as

3 Mindset Tweaks to Manage Weight Better

Dr. Robert Kushner June 5, 2024 No Comments

When managing body weight, you’re probably laser-focused on how your weight is changing day to day or week to week. This most likely applies whether or not you’re also taking obesity medications. Though I advocate tracking body weight as a good self-monitoring tool, weight is only 1 metric of health. If you’re someone who loses motivation easily

Social Prescriptions to Enjoy Better Health

Dr. Robert Kushner May 2, 2024 No Comments

What does it mean to be healthy? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “health is not merely the absence of disease but is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.” In Christina Caron’s recent New York Times article, When the Prescription is for a Dance Class, not a Pill, she describes a

Obesity Care Rx Considerations

Dr. Robert Kushner April 6, 2024 No Comments

Effective obesity care management begins with lifestyle modification (healthy eating patterns, increased physical activity and health behavior modification) for everyone as this is needed for optimal health. For select patients where lifestyle management is not effective enough to achieve improved health, medications or bariatric surgery can also be considered. As new and more effective medication

Understanding New Medication Treatments for Obesity Care

Dr. Robert Kushner March 3, 2024 No Comments

Obesity is a chronic, progressive disease associated with multiple complications and co-morbidities, like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke and some forms of cancer. Because the disease of obesity is complex, we use multiple weight management treatments that work well together. Effective obesity care management begins with lifestyle modification (healthy eating patterns, increased physical activity