Robert Besen MD

Today, a majority of Americans are overweight. Many of these people are dangerously obese. An overabundance of body fat has been linked to many of the medical problems we experience in our life. The genetics that control our body fat stores, metabolism and eating habits we inherit from the days of Primitive Man.

Have you ever wondered what it was like to have a complete and thorough physical and metabolic examination to check the current state of your health? Most likely many doctors you have visited in the past spent little time with you in person evaluating your overall health and medical problems. At Dr. B's office we are different!

Most people who try to lose weight go on a "diet". This normally means that they reduce their food intake or change the types of foods they eat. People believe that by doing so they can lose all the weight they want and keep it off. And judging by the hundreds of diets to choose from in books, magazines and on the Web - along with the multitude of diet products promising miraculous results - it should be simple to lose weight, right?

Most people gain weight as they get older. There are many reasons they do so. We are genetically designed to eat as much food as we can as quickly as we can. This comes from our survival genes that are built into our chromosomes.

Unfortunately, these genes that were once life saving are now incompatible in our modern society with the limitless quantities of high fat food, high carbohydrate and calorically dense processed food that we can't seem to stop eating!Most people also choose to eat larger quantities of the wrong foods when they are stressed by personal, monetary, family, marital or health problems.