Insulin resistance is a condition during which the body’s cells don’t use hormone called insulin properly. this hormone helps cells use glucose for energy.

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• Insulin resistance increases the danger of developing prediabetes, can lead to other problems such as stroke, and cardiovascular disease.

• Prediabetes or metabolic syndrome is a condition  wherein glucose levels are over normal but not high enough for a designation of polygenic disease.

• Causes of insulin hormone resistance and prediabetes are many and include the current high glycemic diet that triggers production of high levels of insulin, genetic factors, excess weight, and lack of physical activity.

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1. Metabolic Syndrome
   Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of any 3 of the subsequent conditions:
2. waist size of forty inches plus for men and thirty five inches plus for ladies
3. triglyceride levels of one hundred fifty milligrams per metric capacity unit (mg/dL) or more, or taking medication for elevated lipid levels
4. HDL, or “good,” sterol level below forty mg/dL for men and below fifty mg/dL for ladies, or taking medication for low high-density lipoprotein levels
5. blood pressure levels of 130/85 or higher, or taking medication for elevated BP
6. fasting blood sugar levels of one hundred mg/dL plus, or taking medication for elevated blood sugar levels

If you have belly fat, skin tags in the neck, or darker or thicker lines in the neck called Acanthosis Nigricans, you might be insulin resistant.

• What is Acanthosis Nigricans – velvety, mossy, flat, wart-like darkened skin on your neck or armpits or underneath your breasts?

Acanthosis Nigricans in the neck is a sign of insulin resistance

What can be done to reduce risk of diabetes?

• Being physically active, creating wise food decisions, especially low glycemic, protein based diets, and reaching and maintaining a healthy weight can help forestall or reverse hormone resistance and prediabetes.

How can W8MD Medical Weight Loss Centers of America’s Prediabetes/Metabolic Medicine weight loss program help?
W8MD Medical Weight Loss Program could be a medical weight loss and sleep well-being program for those that are serious about losing weight and have failed other measures. We would like to provide you all the tools you would like to reach losing weight quickly and safe with offices in many nations within the us. we have a tendency to additionally supply a reasonable telemedicine program for those who don’t have W8MD center close to them thus you’ll be able to be evaluated by one among our  physicians to know the advanced factors that result in weight gain and to plan a non-surgical strategy to assist you fight blubber.

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Our weight loss group has helped patients accomplish their goals by employing a clinically proven evidence based four-step methodology for safe weight loss:

• a physician-supervised diet and weight loss medication,
• a in person structured and administered exercise program,
• comprehensive psychotherapy, and
• ongoing weight maintenance support.

We can assist you accomplish long lasting weight loss while not feeling perpetually hungry. once you resent your weight loss program as a result of you’re feeling perpetually hungry, it’s rather more tough to continue any important long term changes for weight loss. once you feel hungry, you’re biologically driven to eat, and diet plans that force you to fight that biological impulse will be tough to take care of. At W8MD Medical Weight Loss Program, we would like to assist you accomplish lasting weight loss results for long term weight loss success.

Prab R. Tumpati, MD

Dr. Prab R. Tumpati is an extremely trained and revered medical doctor familiar with the new obesity medicine drugs that are FDA approved.  Dr Tumpati is also board certified in Sleep Disorder management such as sleep apnea as weight gain and sleep apnea go together.W8MD Medical Weight Loss Program is devoted to personalized treatment plan that works for you. As one of the very medical weight loss centers to accept health insurance for the weight loss physician visits, we can help you lose weight fast and safe. Your insurance might cover the cost of the weight loss physician visits, thanks to the Affordable Care Act that mandates insurance coverage for obesity. Our non-surgical medical weight loss program relies on the newest medical science and utilizes evidence based strategies to slim down and keep the weight off for a long duration.

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Dr. Tumpati oversees all our patients and helps customise their individual weight loss treatments. You can learn more on our main web site at http://www.w8md.com or call us at 1(800) W8MD-007. We have Weight loss and sleep clinics in North East Philadelphia, King of Prussia, PA and New York City.

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Before and after weight loss New York City

If you are overweight, or obese in NYC and wants to lose weight safely without surgery, you are not alone.

According to the Centers For Disease Control (CDC):

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About 35.9% of all adults in the United States age 20 years and over who are obese

• About another 33.3% are in the overweight category but not obese.
• Combined together, 69.2% of all adults are either overweight or obese!

Obesity in NYC

Who is considered to be overweight?

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Do you know whether or not your current weight is healthy? Obese and overweight mean that your weight is greater than it should be for your health as determined by your body mass index (BMI). who are overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9) and have two or more risk factors, it is recommended that you lose weight.

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Assessing Health Risks Associated with Overweight and Obesity

BMI, although it can help understand your risk to some degree, it cannot fully help understand the metabolic risk associated with weight as it does not take in to account your distribution of weight.

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Here are the factors to consider to understand your risk

Excess weight in the tummy increases health risk.

If you are overweight or obese, or have risk factors for metabolic syndrome even with normal weight, you may want to consider seeing a physician trained in Obesity or Metabolic Medicine such as the W8MD (pronounced Weight MD) physicians.

What is Obesity or Overweight?

For adults, a “body mass index” (BMI) of 30 and over in general is considered to be obese although BMI may not be an ideal tool to determine the risk. It is far more important to understand the distribution of the weight, body fat composition etc. to understand the risks associated with Obesity.

Understanding the risks

You could be in nomal BMI range and but can still have metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or even type 2 diabetes , and other diseases associated with weight such as cholesterol abnormalities. This is especially true if you have weight in the wrong areas such as the belly and upper part of the body.

BMI for Obesity

BMI is used because of the simplicity and for most people, it tends to correlate with their amount of body fat.

•An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight.
•An adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese.
See the following table for an example.

Body body percentage is more important!

It is important to remember that although BMI correlates with the amount of body fat, BMI does not directly measure body fat. As a result, some people, such as athletes, may have a BMI that identifies them as overweight even though they do not have excess body fat.

Waist to hip ratio

Other methods of estimating body fat and body fat distribution include measurements of body composition analysis, skinfold thickness and waist circumference, calculation of waist-to-hip circumference ratios, and techniques such as ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

The ideal waist to hip ratio for women should be 0.8 or lower and for men should be 1 or lower. That means, you should not have a big tummy or upper body weight for reducing the metabolic risks associated with weight.

How can W8MD weight loss in NYC Help?

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Learn more about W8MD’s physician weight loss program in New York City

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Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Most Insurances do have coverage for medical weight loss visits and W8MD is among the first programs to accept most health insurances for physician weight loss visits.

Here is a partial list of insurances we accept for physician supervised medical weight loss visits. Unlike the many other cash only weight loss clinics, we will bill your insurance directly so all you would be copays or co-insurance.

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Cost of weight loss program in NYC

With $50.00 program fee biweekly, on top of insurance, w8md program is much cheaper than even non medical programs like Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers per pound of weight loss.

Here is a partial list of insurances we accept in our New York City. Call the office at 718-946-5500 for more information.

• 1199
• Medicare

• Cigna

• Blue cross Blue Shield Various Plans

• Fidelis

• Oxford (freedom network) 

• GHI/Emblem Health 

• Multiplan 

• Tricare 

• Magnacare 

• Aetna

• United Health Care

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