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Evidence Based Medical Weight Control |
Thank you for giving this website your attention and welcome. If you are like most people struggling with weight, you have probably tried many diets, many supplements and a whole lot of gimmicks. You have probably found, like everyone, that it's a lot easier to buy a promise of weight loss than to achieve it as a reality. You have probably felt a failure many times over and you have likely spent more money than you care to admit. It is perhaps cold consolation that you are not alone. The truth, of course, is that there are no weight loss miracles. If any of the thousands of diets, supplements and books that flood the market ever really worked, you would already know it, already be thin and certainly not wasting your time reading this. I have no miracles to promise, but I do offer hope along with the most modern medical therapy available. Medical science has made and continues to make real progress in the treatment of obesity. Long-term weight loss is truly possible, but, with or without medical help, it still requires long-term changes in your life. Most of my patients start out believing that they are incapable of real and lasting change; they cite as evidence for this their own past weight loss "failures". Men and women who have achieved incredible success in other areas of life believe that with weight they are abject failures. Not only is this tragic, it is self-fulfilling. Who among us is going to work to achieve a goal we believe unreachable? Obesity is a disease, not a character flaw. It responds to livable and sustained lifestyle modification and not to hocus-pocus or self-flagellation. Obesity is also a chronic disease, just like diabetes, just like high blood pressure. Obesity doesn't happen for only, say, two years and then just go away. But, just like diabetes, just like hypertension, obesity can be managed. Such management is not a cure, but it does mean that the serious health risks of obesity can be reduced through long-term weight loss. That is the focus of my work. I treat obesity medically and in many cases, when appropriate, I treat it with medications. I treat obesity didactically, by working with every patient I see to make sensible life-style changes appropriate for that person's health. I treat obesity as a human being who stands in judgement of nobody else lest he himself be judged. Obesity is a brutal disease that destroys human lives. It deserves better treatment than a pretty lie and frankly, so do you. I take very seriously the trust people place in the title of "physician" and work daily to honor it. This website is a work in progress. I approach it with high hopes and limited time. Everything you see and read here is written by me (except when I am explictly quoting). I have no web-design firm and no marketing agency. This all me and I offer this website as an informational resource to my patients and to the public but with a caveat: the information herein is solely that: information. It is NOT medical advice. I can only offer that to patients whom I have talked with and examined. To the left and right of each page you will find links to information about my practice and about the science and medicine of weight loss. Some of these links are innactive at the moment, but I am adding content daily, so please be patient. In the meantime, and always, I stand ready to assist you by telephone or in person. Your time today reading this is my honor, and I hope it proves worth your while. Mark J Holland MD May 27, 2010 Albuquerque, NM |
by Mark J Holland MD |
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