The Manhattan-based NYU Langone Weight Management Program helps individuals with varying degrees of obesity to shed pounds and lead healthier lives. Active since 2009 and staffed by some of the nation's leading bariatric medical professionals, the NYU Langone Weight Management Program offers a wide range of clinical treatments and conducts a number of research initiatives into healing modalities for its patients. One of the NYU Langone Weight Management Program's most popular nonsurgical alternatives, the Quick 20 Program, was designed around research that found that even slightly overweight persons could reduce their health risks by losing 15 to 20 pounds.NYU Langone Weight Management Program patients enrolled in the Quick 20 Program consume four to five meal replacement items and one healthy full meal each day. Each week, these patients visit with a NYU Langone Weight Management Program medical professional to undergo testing and monitoring to ensure that they loss weight at a safe pace. Unlike other weight loss initiatives that emphasize deprivation from food, the NYU Langone Weight Management Program's Quick 20 system instills in its patients positive behavior and the importance of consuming foods with low glycemic and high protein levels.
Designed as a quick and reliable method for losing weight, the NYU Langone Weight Management Program's Quick 20 system helps patients drop roughly two pounds per week by inducing a natural process known as ketosis. Ketosis occurs when the body burns up its carbohydrates and begins using fat cells as a primary energy source. Enrollment in the NYU Langone Weight Management Program's Quick 20 Program also includes nutrition-behavioral group therapy sessions and daily caloric expenditure analyses to encourage patients to develop and maintain long-term healthy lifestyle changes.
For more information on the NYU Langone Weight Management Program and its nonsurgical weight loss options, like the Quick 20 system, log onto thinforlife.med.nyu.edu. To reach the NYU Langone Weight Management Program office by phone, call (212) 263-3166.