Nutrition & Fitness
Nutrition & Fitness - The Optimal Medical Weight Loss Program
When it comes to reaching your goals of a healthy weight and lean body mass to fat ratio, nutrition and fitness will play a vital role. A healthy approach is the only real solution, not only for reaching that goal, but for maintaining it for the long term.
Nutritionists and dieticians have long told us that gradual weight loss through lifestyle and behavioral modifications will produce long-lasting results in terms of pounds lost, ability to manage weight in the future, and an increase in overall health, self-esteem, and quality of life.
At Rejuvalife, Dr. Berger incorporates the latest information and research to assure the fitness and nutrition components of your weight loss and nutrition management program are the best and most effective available.
To that end, Dr. Berger works with the best-in-the-business -- fitness experts, nutritionists, dieticians and behavior modification experts are part of the RejuvaLite program, to ensure you have all the tools at your disposal to meet your weight management goals.
The Rejuvalife Team of Medical Weight Loss Program Experts
Masoud Azizi - Exercise Physiologist, Nutritionist, Trainer
Masoud is a nationally certified fitness instructor and a scholar at UCLA, where he studies physiology and is involved in inventing exercise paradigms that optimize fat loss and chronic disease risk reduction at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. As a young scientist, he also studies the molecular biology of aging, and is involved in developing exercise and nutrition protocols that increase the activity of genes that slow down the aging process, reduce inflammation, and increase cellular defense.
Working with Dr. Berger, Masoud uses cutting edge exercise prescription, nutraceuticals, and nutrition education to tailor scientifically supported programs that help you reach your specific goals.
Deborah Klein, MS, RD - Registered Dietician
Deborah specializes in weight loss, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, disease prevention, and long-term wellness. She works with Dr. Berger to create an eating plan that compliments both the lifestyle you're leading, and the new, healthier one you're learning to lead. The best "diet" is one that you can maintain for a lifetime, and that provides optimal nutritional value for your needs while not leaving you or your taste-buds feeling deprived.
Theresa Fernander, MSW, LCSW - Behavior Therapist
Theresa specializes in mental health, addiction and various eating disorders. Theresa has created several small eating disorder groups to help patients with their emotional triggers. She helps Rejuvalife Weight Management patients adapt their unhealthy eating behaviors and relationships with food to their new, healthier lifestyle to ensure that the healthy choices continue for a lifetime.
Catherine Cardinal - Coach, Anger Management Facilitator, Hypnotherapist
Catherine Cardinal, Ph.D., "the self-esteem doctor", has over 20 years experience helping clients reach their personal goals and achieve success and happiness. She is a Coach, Anger Management Facilitator, Hypnotherapist and Movement Therapist. She uses an integrated approach which produces positive results quickly. Catherine has worked with people from all backgrounds from lawyers to homemakers to celebrities. She is here at Rejuvalife to help address whatever is holding patients back from achieving their goals. Also with many years as a fitness instructor and dancer, she has practical tools to help create a healthy body image and great self-esteem.
Fitness - The Essential Element
Research has long confirmed that any amount of exercise, at any age, is beneficial. Physical activity is an essential part of any medical weight loss / nutrition program, to maximize your fat loss while keeping valuable muscle mass.
Exercise burns calories, contributing to the overall caloric deficit needed to reduce weight. At the same time, exercise increases the amount of lean body mass (especially resistance based exercises), which burns calories more efficiently and more rapidly than does fat. A higher lean to fat body mass ratio increases metabolism and thereby more calories are burned at rest than for those with a lower lean to fat ratio.
This beautiful synergy is a fundamental element of a successful weight management program. However, in addition to weight loss, exercise has many other health and longevity benefits including aiding in the treatment of certain types of cancer, improving immune function, and more.
- •Heart Disease - Exercise strengthens heart muscle; lowers blood pressure, enhances blood flow and allows your heart to function more efficiently.
- •Stroke - Studies show that regular physical activity reduces the risk of having and/or dying from a stroke or stroke related complication.
- •Type II Diabetes - This type of Diabetes is increasing at alarming rates; by 13.5% between 2005 and 2007. Nearly 24 million Americans suffer from the disease, and many more are at risk.
- •Obesity - Chronic obesity is an epidemic, and a major risk factor for many diseases.
- •Psychological Benefits - While exercising, your body releases endorphins that can improve mood and can assist with coping with stress and warding off depression and anxiety.
A Recipe for Weight Loss Success: A customized plan of Exercise and Diet that works for you!
Exercise alone does effect weight loss; however when combined with a reduced-calorie, nutrient-rich diet, the effects are much more impressive.
Rejuvalife's nutritionist, dietition, exercise physiologist, and behavior therapist work hand-in-hand with Dr. Berger to create a balanced program based on your current weight, metabolic rate, caloric needs, hormone balance or imbalances, level of health and fitness as well as your eating habits and relationship with food. The team incorporates all of this information into a comprehensive diet and exercise program that:
- Is easy to follow and integrate into your current lifestyle. Making healthy choices doesn't have to feel like you're in prison.
- Includes a nutrient-rich menu that won't leave your you or your taste buds feeling deprived.
- Considers your exercise history and fitness level, and ramps up your frequency, duration and intensity of exercise in a way that you feel energized and ready for more, rather than exhausted and in pain. We want you to be able to enjoy the process, not suffer through it.
At Rejuvalife, the support system for your weight management program continues long after you've initiated the changes required or stepped foot on the treadmill for the first time. Once your plan is through the diagnostic and design process, the team helps you begin, gets you through the rough spots, and is there to make modifications and adjustments along the way. We're in it for the "long haul" because you are.
Tips for Your Weight Loss / Nutrition Program
Healthy eating for weight loss and overall health is a combination of balance, variety, moderation and consistency. These tips for good nutrition can help you follow that advice while still enjoying the foods you eat.
- •Enjoy a wide variety of high quality nutrients. You need more than 40 different nutrients for good health, and no single food supplies them all. Your daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products; fruits; vegetables; dairy products; and meat, poultry, fish and other high protein foods. Practicing portion control and faith in the concept "you are what you eat" will make the adherence to modifying your diet more palatable.
- •Everything in moderation. If you keep portion sizes reasonable, it's easier to eat the foods you want and stay healthy. The recommended serving size of cooked meat is three ounces, similar in size to a deck of playing cards. A medium piece of fruit is one serving and a cup of pasta equals 2 servings. (A pint of ice cream contains 4 servings.)
- •Feed the machine. Eat regular meals, or several small meals in a day, in lieu of the traditional three larger meals. Skipping meals may seem like a rapid path to weight loss, but quite the contrary. Too few calories lowers the metabolism, which means you burn fewer calories, upsetting the synergy and ultimately lowering your lean body mass and increasing your body fat percentage.
- •Balance your food choices over time. Most find it next to impossible to implement the change to a healthy lifestyle overnight. Gradually modify the behaviors you wish to change, or introduce new habits you wish to establish, to reduce the chances for frustration that giving up favorite foods or habits "cold turkey" may create. Modest changes over time can add up to positive, sustainable eating habits for the rest of your life.
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