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Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is overwhelmingly determined by your degree of muscularity ie the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest and with exercise. Therefore if you want to burn more calories, even while you are sleeping, you want to keep as much muscle while you only lose fat.
In terms of health and longevity what matters most is the proportion of fat to muscle. Only your knees care how much you weigh (increased weight bearing). With regards to health effects (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease) all that really matters is the number of fat cells you have, where in your body this fat is stored and how full of fat these cells are.
Many people who have dieted on and off on low or very low calorie diets have essentially replaced much of their healthy muscle with unhealthy fat. Though they weigh less they have less muscle and proportionally more fat. This is known as "skinny fat" or TOFI (thin outside, fat inside) or normal weight obesity.
One of the most accurate techniques to measure body fat and lean body mass is electrical bioimpedance. The Cornerstone program uses the BC-1 body composition analyzer which is the most accurate bioimpedance device on the market. Recent clinical studies performed at USC Keck School of Medicine created separate algorithms for men, women and children that put the BC-1 measurements within 0.5 % of DEXA measurements, and DEXA is considered the "gold standard", more accurate than hydrostatic weighing.
The measurements are performed using a technique called bioimpedance. A painless, small electrical current is passed through your body and since muscle conducts electricity and fat resists current flow, that number can be translated into body fat and lean body mass (muscle).
The BC-1, despite it's technological superiority, is inexpensive enough that patients can use them at home once they have graduated from their physicians fat loss program. Because measurements are transmitted through the Internet, your doctor can continue to follow your trends without your having to come in to the office.
A pre-set very healthy body fat goal range is determined for men and women. Even if that goal is never reached, if you are at least moving towards that goal you will be getting healthier, feeling better, reshaping your body and looking fitter. It is not all or nothing-even a small change in the right direction can markedly improve your health and appearance.
Remember your goal needs to be lifetime management of healthy body composition. This will insure less likelihood of fat regain. The benefits will be greater health, less risk of disease, greater vitality and of course better appearance and improved self-esteem, which is intimately linked to appearance.
You now have access to the most technologically advanced tools to reach and maintain the body shape you desire, especially when combined with the other functions of the Cornerstone Wellness program- the online meal planning, the aerobic and resistance training modules, the CT-1 online calorie tracker and the daily educational articles. The rest is up to you!
Cornerstone Wellness Program
The two seemingly insurmountable problems facing physicians today, are the obesity epidemic and the financial maelstrom in private practice due to waning health insurance reimbursement combined with ever increasing costs of medical practice. It is doubtful either of these problems will abate anytime soon. The Cornerstone Wellness Program was created to at least partially ameliorate both of these very real issues.
The most common disease that practicing physicians see every day is obesity. Easily half their time and effort is spent medicating the sequelae, namely metabolic syndrome. Physicians however are terribly ill equipped to manage these conditions. Lack of time and reimbursement, their experience that 'nothing works', lack of training in the management of overweight and obesity, and perhaps most importantly, absence of a 'plan', has resulted in frustration on the part of both provider and patient. The greatest epidemic since the Great Plague is being largely ignored by the very people who are responsible for the health of this nation, as they simply don't know how to handle it. Until now that is.
The Cornerstone Program is the first and only integrated, comprehensive, turnkey approach to the management of obesity and metabolic syndrome in the physician's office practice. Utilizing the most advanced FDA cleared body composition analyzer, the BC-1, allows physicians to follow fat loss and lean body mass to accuracy on par with DEXA, the gold standard. An appropriate caloric goal is determined for each patient along with an online meal program, based on healthy macronutrient proportions, allows the patient to stay within these parameters. The only FDA cleared calorie tracking device, the CT-1, based on the triaxial accelerometer, ensures patient compliance with their exercise program, since the physician can view each patient's daily caloric expenditure online. A huge library of resistance training movements, along with instructions and visuals, helps the patient gain or increase their muscle mass, insuring long term success. And lastly, a small group of synergistic nutraceutical supplements, including the most nutritious and only all natural, physician dispensed, high protein partial meal replacement, affords tremendous satiety, the recommended levels of protein required for maintenance of lean body mass to prevent drops in BMR, as well as normalization of elevated insulin levels, which in a nutshell is the cause of obesity.
Physicians begin practicing true preventive medicine leading to greater professional satisfaction and empowering patients to take control of their lives. As medications are discontinued, health care costs diminish significantly so that every segment of the health care system benefits.
The Cornerstone of good health is optimal nutrition and adequate exercise and with this aptly named program installed in their practice, physicians can now move from the current 'sick care' model that American medicine has adopted and begin practicing true health care.
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