Comprehensive Medical Weight Loss
Get the latest developments in medical weight loss at Clinical Nutrition Center in Denver, Colorado, a doctor-supervised weight loss center. Ethan Lazarus, MD is a medical weight loss doctor helping patients achieve long-term weight control.
Today the FDA announced that instead of reviewing Qnexa, the new weight loss drug by Vivus, combining Phentermine and Topiramate, they are pushing back the review date by 3 months to July 17th, 2012, to allow time to review all…
Perhaps you’ve noticed: Many people in their 70s, 60s, 50s, even 40s are showing up with knee problems that require surgery. Here’s a chart for illustration: One of the main reasons for the huge increase in these surgeries is the…
Perhaps you noticed the tiny ripple in the media in mid-February: A study of Mediterranean – type dining versus typical American stuffing suggested that a diet low in saturated fats, red meats and refined grains, and high in fish, produce…
There is exciting news for all of our Type 2 Diabetics. Bydureon has now been approved for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. When patients are not controlled on metformin or metformin plus a sulfonylurea (Glipizide / Glucotrol) or thiazoladinedione…
On February 22nd, 2012, the Advisory Committee to the FDA met to review a new weight loss drug, Qnexa. This drug is a combination of Phentermine and Topiramate, and the combination yields substantially better weight loss than Phentermine alone, even…
For our health care workers out there, Dr. Lazarus is honored to have been invited again to participate in Grand Rounds. This year, the title of my talk is: Obesity Medicine Why telling an individual to “Eat Less, Exercise More”…
It is well established that certain types of foods can cause disease. Excess salt can elevate blood pressure and excess trans-fats can contribute to early heart disease. Have you considered that we can use foods to cure disease? In addition…
The FDA is again considering approval of an experimental weight loss drug it rejected a year ago over concerns about potential heart problems and birth defects in babies born to women who take the drug. California-based pharmaceutical company Vivus…
Did you see the article on Junk Food Addiction from Bloomberg News that was in the Denver Post last Month( November 6th)? Twenty-eight scientific studies and papers on food addiction have been published this year. And just as David Kessler…
Every once in a while a book comes along that really revolutionizes the way we think about diet, weight loss, nutrition, or life-long weight control. Many of these examples are on our reading list. Atkins introduced the thought of higher…
