Episode 37. Why We Get Fat And What We Can Do About It with Professor Joseph Proietto
The western world faces a very significant obesity epidemic. In Australia, two-thirds of our population or 12.5 million are either overweight or obese and as a consequence may experience many medical sequelae including development of the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, osteoarthritis and depression, contributing significantly to our health burden. In the first part of this series, we were joined by Joseph Proietto, Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, the Department of Medicine at Austin Health and an endocrinologist specialising in diabetes and obesity to discuss why we become obese. Professor Proietto joins us again to guide us through a strategy of how to treat and manage obesity and direct our patients toward a healthy body mass index (BMI).
In this episode Professor Proietto discusses:
· The concept of energy balance
· The influence of exercise
· Dietary approaches including - Very low energy diets that induce a ketogenic state
· Medication used to suppress appetite and assist patients to establish an optimal BMI
Professor Proietto was extremely informative in this conversation navigating steadily and logically through a management strategy that may be applied to our patients experiencing obesity in primary practice. Thank you for joining me in this conversation.
Useful references include:
- www.darebinweightlosssurgery.com.au
- vermontsouthmedicalcentre.com.au
- Body Weight Regulation – Essential Knowledge to Lose Weight and Keep It Off by Joseph Proietto. ISBN 9781514497005. Published 12 August 2016, Publisher Xlibris.
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To be a guest on the show or provide some feedback, I’d love to hear from you: manager@gihealth.com.au
Dr Luke Crantock MBBS, FRACP, is a gastroenterologist in practice for over 25 years. He is the founder of The Centre for GI Health, based in Melbourne Australia and is passionate about educating General Practitioners and patients on disease prevention and how to manage and improve their digestive health.