10/14/2024
Upcoming Lecture on Weight Management
Patrick Massey MD, PhD MhD
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Baker Community Center
101 S. 2nd St
St. Charles, IL 60174
Cost: $25.00 – Registration Begins Soon
Weight management is a popular topic in medicine and TV advertising. However, long-term success is more than fad diets, medications and calories-in and calories-out. In today’s complex world, reaching a healthy weight depends on many lifestyle issues like stress, sleep, dietary quality, physical/mental exercise, chronic illnesses, and medications.
Join Dr. Massey as he discusses the many factors of weight management and how you can make meaningful and lasting changes to achieve your weight goals.
Dr. Massey will discuss the following:
Obesity – US is #1 in industrialized nations
Obesity and risk of chronic illness
Sleep deprivation = weight gain
Diets – all work and all fail
Medications – often work but ultimately fail
Stress – how it dramatically causes increase in weight
Metabolic syndrome – insulin resistance prevents weight loss
Sub-clinical hypothyroidism – labs look OK but still fatigued and gain weight
Physical exercise – pluses and minuses
Mental exercise – one of the keys to metabolic balance
Food quality – slowly poisoned by additives
Medications – can affect metabolism…profoundly
