I met a patient recently who made an appointment because she was concerned about her BMI (body mass index). As she pushed up her sleeve so I could take her blood pressure, I was impressed with her biceps. “Nice guns”, I said. “You think so? I work out with a trainer,” was her reply.
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Body Composition Testing with the InBody
I get a lot of questions about the InBody 570 and body composition analysis: what it is, how it works, why the InBody 570 is superior to other available tests, who might benefit from being tested, if it is accurate, how often one should be measured, and what you need to do to be measured.
Why Eating Less and Exercising More Doesn’t Always “Work”
I grew up, like many of us, thinking my body essentially worked like a math equation. It was said that a pound of fat is made up of 3500 calories, and so to lose a pound of fat, all I had to do was make sure my intake of calories was less than what I burned doing activities every day (i.e.,
