“I’ve been on and off diets my whole life. I was bullied my whole life due to being overweight. This was the best thing I ever did for myself,” she said. “I’m 68 and I’m living my best life now. I was about 325 pounds. Now I’m between 175 and 180.”
Weight loss medications are on top of everyone’s minds these days, and with good reason. These medications are revolutionizing the patient’s experience by controlling hunger, cravings and enhancing satiety.
Making dietary changes to improve our health or to lose weight can feel overwhelming and lead to all-or-nothing thinking. It can sometimes feel like we have to choose between eating what we want and eating what we think is good for us.
Preparing for Snow Shoveling To avoid injury and pain from shoveling snow in the winter, now is a good time to work on strength. Consult with your healthcare provider before starting any exercise program. Good exercises would include bent-over rows and lunges for lower body stability. Helpful Snow Shoveling Tips Assess your heart health: Consult your…
The holidays can be full of joy and happiness but can also be full of stress and chaos. We get to spend time with loved ones doing fun things, but it can also be accompanied by busy schedules and delicious calorie dense foods. Couple that with cold weather, it can make physical activity hard to achieve and unfavorably alter our body composition.
Northwell’s Mather Hospital formally dedicated its recently acquired Outpatient Behavioral Health Services building that allows the hospital to transform how it provides mental health services, expanding programs and introducing a new Rapid Access Center.
Northwell’s Mather Hospital earned its 21st “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, the most of any Suffolk Country Hospital.
Instead of adding cream to your soup, bump up the protein in this fall inspired soup by adding cottage cheese to make it creamy.
Mather Hospital recently marked a new milestone: surgeons performing the hospital’s 10,000th bariatric surgery. The hospital offers gastric bypass, revisional surgery, gastric band, and sleeve gastrectomy for weight loss. The 10,000th surgery, a sleeve gastrectomy, was performed by, Dr. Arif Ahmad, Director of the Center of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery™. The procedure involves…
What is emotional eating? It can be positive (eating to celebrate an engagement, cake to celebrate a birthday) or negative (eating for relief, distraction, numbness), and is most often referred to in a negative way. People tend to reach for foods that are nutrient poor (not containing a lot of nutrients) leading to food guilt…