Medical Issues:

There are 3 main issues I address both in my clinical weight loss protocols and in this book. The first is the disease processes or hormone defeciencies that may be contributing to the weight gain, their inability to lose the weight, and the issues involved in weight loss maintenance.  In reality this is the essence of the book and the driving force behind why I wrote it.

Just because the doctor reveals the medical issue or issues at fault, it will in the end fall on those psychological factors that have resulted in habits that need to be brought up and changed over time in one on one meetings with the doctor. These habits will need to be broken by the patient and not repeated. The habits I am referring to are things such as eating out of boredom.  Eating when one is feeling stressed, depressed, or even happy.  There are MANY more covered in the book with each and every one having some part to play in nearly every patients journey to health.  Some will be much more important than others, and those are the issues that will be covered the most at the weight loss clinic visits.

All of my patients as well as all of the doctors that decide to help their patients lose weight will receive information on how to eat properly.  The book contains lists of foods that are included in the programs used at Dr. Ashworths' clinic.  There is also an example of a food program as it would be given to a patient seeing Dr. Ashworth.  One of the main factors that will be covered is how fast certain foods are digested and how those foods effect the sugar and subsequent insulin levels in the blood.  The Glycemic Index is far from a new concept, having been around since the 1970's and is used extensively in the book. These 3 topics are covered in the web site pages located to the right.