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2. WELCOME!
ERIN BENDER, PA-C
• BOARD CERTIFIED PHYS ICIAN
AS S I STANT
• NATIONAL COMMI S S ION ON
CERTIFICATION OF PHYS ICIAN
AS S I STANTS (NCCPA)

3. Supported by
Sudhir Malhotra
Director - Healthcare Technology and Innovation
Debbie Lalic
Team Lead – Customer Relations

4. How Excess Weight Contributes
to Aging and Chronic Disease

5. America’s Obesity Epidemic

6. The Type 2 Diabetes Connection
24 million Americans (25% or 5.7 million are unaware!)
1 in 4 aged 60 or older
Becoming more common at younger ages
Global burden of diabetes primarily due to obesity
90% of type 2 DM attributable to excess body weight and
lifestyle

7. What is our body made of ?
Bones
Organs
Muscle
Water
Fat

8. Where does fat collect in your body?
Inside the organs and arteries (Visceral fat)
Under the skin (Subcutaneous fat)

9. How we carry fat in the body

10. Visceral fat is unwanted

11. How visceral fat affects you
Pulmonary disease
abnormal function
obstructive sleep apnea
hypoventilation syndrome
Nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease
steatosis
steatohepatitis
cirrhosis
Coronary heart
disease
Diabetes
Dyslipidemia
Hypertension
Gall bladder disease
Gynecologic abnormalities
abnormal menses
infertility
polycystic ovarian syndrome
Osteoarthritis
Skin
Cancer
breast, uterus, cervix
colon, esophagus, pancreas
kidney, prostate
Phlebitis
venous stasis
Gout
Idiopathic intracranial
hypertension
Stroke
Cataracts
Severe pancreatitis

12. Visceral fat strongly associated with
metabolic risk factors

13. Cardiovascular
Disease &
Complications
Progression & outcomes
of chronic inflammation
Metabolic
Syndrome
Diabetic
Complications
(Visceral)
Abdomin
al Obesity
Chronic
Inflammation
Insulin
Resistance
Type 2
Diabetes

14. Plaque or fat inside arteries blocking circulation

15. Rid
yourself of
visceral
fat and the
symptoms
will
resolve

16. Prevention and
Treatment

17. Prevention and
Treatment

18. Where is the road block ?
Is it your hormones ?
Is your liver not doing the job ?
Is your body in fat-storing mode?
Are you addicted to food ? Mentally or physically
Are your cells not getting right signals ?

19. Solving problems at the roots

20. Prevention vs Treatment
Causes of weight issues Symptoms
Medications
Lifestyle
 Stress
 Nutrition
 Social support
General Physical
Factors
Disease and Illness
High blood pressure
Depression
Type 2 Diabetes
Fatigue

21. Individualization & Personalization

22. Lifestyle Change
Marathon Sprint

23. Fat Loss vs Weight loss

24. Do you know what you’re made of?

25. BMI: how accurate is it?
BMI: 34 BMI: 34

26. Tracking The Fat Loss

27. Tracking The Fat Loss

28. Tracking The Fat Loss

29. Patient Results
“IT SAVED MY LIFE
I NO LONGER
HAVE DIABETES”

30. Patient Results
“DROPPED 25 LBS
AFTER ATTEMPTING
POPULAR DIET
PLANS”

31. Patient Results
“I HAVE LOST
ALMOST 70 LBS
IN ABOUT 7
MONTHS”

32. Patient Results
“I HAVE LOST
OVER 50 LBS
IN ABOUT A 6
MONTHS SPAN”

33. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Performance markers
 from CPET test
 Peak VO2 (VO2max)
 Peak HR
 Peak Watts
 Anaerobic Threshold
(AT)
 HR at AT
 Watts at AT

34. Today’s Food

35. Would you feed it to your dog?

36. Today’s Food
Up to 80% depleted in
some vitamins &
minerals
Over-fertilized
Antibiotics, pesticides &
preservatives

37. Today’s Food
Simple Carbohydrate
Sugar

38. Harmful Habits
Overeating Under eating

39. Does Timing Matter?

40. Vitamins: Are They Important?

41. Everything is
not created
equal
• Fish oil
• Quality
• Ratios

42. “Physical Activity”

43. Harmful Habits
Over Exercising Under Exercising

44. Biological Vs
Chronological Age

45. Aging ≠ Decreased Health

46. How old are you biologically vs. chronologically?

47. What are Telomeres?

48. Prolonging life of the cell

49. Takeaways
How Excess Weight Contributes to Aging and Chronic Disease
Prevention and Treatment
• Target causes not symptoms
• Individualize
• Personalize
• Fat loss not weight loss
Biological Vs Chronological Age

50. QUESTIONS?

51. QUIZ
What is a better
measurement of
good health?
A. Your weight
B. Your waist

52. QUIZ
Which of the following
foods does not contain
healthy fats that will
help keep you
satisfied?
A. Olives
B. Peaches
C. Salmon
D. Walnuts

53. QUIZ
Skipping meals may
cause your body to
seek nourishment
from your fat, thus
burning more calories
A. True
B. False

54. QUIZ
Sleep deprivation may
alter levels of
hormones in the body
that regulate hunger,
causing an increase in
appetite
A. True
B. False

55. QUIZ
Weight loss may be
able to reverse Type
2 Diabetes.
A. True
B. False

56. QUIZ
A nutrition facts label
can list zero grams of
fat even if the food
does in fact contain
some fat.
A. True
B. False

57. QUIZ
High blood pressure
(hypertension) is a
condition that must be
treated with
medication
A. True
B. False

58. QUIZ
Only adults need to
have their cholesterol
checked. Children
can’t have high
cholesterol
A. True
B. False

59. Questions?
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