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Bariatric Surgery Causes Bone Loss

As a result of a recent study, some patients are choosing a medical weight loss clinic over a surgical weight loss clinic. At Dr. Marlowe’s Weight Loss Institute, we perform medical weight loss, not surgery. Weight loss researchers at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, performed retrospective chart reviews of 61 adolescents who had [...]

Top 5 Jack LaLanne Quotes

I wish to honor a health hero. Long before I ever thought of becoming a weight loss physician in Charlotte, America had Jack LaLanne who taught and exemplified healthy eating and exercise benefits without running a medical weight loss clinic. Jack LaLanne: 1) Your waistline is your lifeline. (medically true) 2) If man makes it, [...]

Weight Loss: 7 Habits of Thin People

Quick: Guess what those 7 habits are before you read any further. Did you name exercise and total calorie-counting? Exercise was one of the least effective habits of thin people and calorie-counting isn’t even on the list. In a study published in Obesity journal (4.9.09), habits associated with obesity were researched. Please remember that correlation [...]

Bariatric surgery cause of cancer

As a result of a recent study, some patients are choosing a medical weight loss clinic over a surgical weight loss clinic. At Dr. Marlowe’s Weight Loss Institute, we perform medical weight loss, not surgery. For the majority of patients who experience weight loss through non-surgical methods, they have far less reflux and many of [...]

88.7% of Dr. Marlowe’s patients had successful weight loss in 2007. That’s the second highest weight loss success rate in the entire nation. This includes all medical weight loss clinics and non-medical weight loss centers. The best non-medical weight loss program is only 40% successful. Dr. Marlowe’s medical office is located in Charlotte, NC.

The latest health food

Have you heard about the latest health food?  The newsmedia says it will cure cancer and cause dramatic weight loss.  Sounds too good to be true. That's because it's not true.  Every few months, the newsmedia catches upon a tidbit from a medical journal and then blows it out of proportion, presenting claims that were [...]

Pregnancy Weight

Congratulations!  You've just been blessed with your new baby.  What a gift.  Although there is a flurry of demands at this time in your life, don't delay losing the pounds you put on during pregnancy.  If you delay weight loss, you may end up overweight for the rest of your life.  A recent study showed that [...]

Omega-3 Fatty Acid heals Fatty Liver

You are not what you eat. You are what your body does with what you eat. No one would think that you could become intelligent by eating Einstein’s brain. Some uncivilized societies eat the powdered bones of their deceased elders in order to absorb their essence, and most of us would find this practice disturbing, [...]

Work stress and weight gain

Harvard weight loss researchers confirm our suspicions that work-related stress can cause weight gain. Weight loss researchers studied more than 1,300 individuals over a period of 10 years. Among overweight men, the biggest predictors of weight gain were stress from job demands, difficulty paying bills, lack of skill discretion, and lack of authority to make [...]

Probiotics Help Weight Loss

Small studies begin to suggest that probiotics may help further weight loss attempts. In previous studies, patients have included probiotics after their bariatric surgery and have lost more weight than patients who did not consume probiotics. In this most recent study, patients who did not even try to diet were given probiotics or a placebo [...]