Rates of diabetes have increased dramatically in America since the 1970’s, and today approximately 100 million Americans have prediabetes1. Nowadays, diabetes is nearly synonymous with type 2 diabetes, since 90-95% of cases have a metabolic rather than an autoimmune cause2. A big gap remains between the science of diabetes and general clinical practice and food … Read More
Tell Us About Your Background. I never got to meet either of my grandfathers. In fact, one died suddenly of a heart attack when my mother was only 16 — 15 years before I was born. Growing up, I didn’t take any of this too seriously. I pursued my interest in science, and it wasn’t … Read More
The number one killer today is heart disease. Number two is cancer. Other, often preventable chronic diseases like dementia, diabetes, stroke, kidney disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also make the top 10. What can we do about this? Though modern medicine offers many treatments, only lifestyle offers the promise of preventing these conditions in … Read More
Your relationship with food can probably be traced back to your first few days on this planet. When infants in healthy relationships express any kind of distress (whether they are hungry, cold, warm, tired, scared, startled) by crying, they are usually met with a bottle or breast. Thus, it is during the first few weeks in life … Read More
Tell Us About Your Background. Structure House is most definitely my home away from home and has been a part of my life since 2007. Up until my senior year of college, I intended to go into psychiatry. I had an amazing psychology professor in my final undergraduate year at Duke University, and I quickly changed … Read More
I recently had a client tell me about a vivid dream she’d recently had. In this dream, she was back at “fat camp.” My client explained that, when she was an adolescent, every summer her parents sent her to a camp designed to help children and teens lose weight. This started when she was seven … Read More
I’m feeling pretty good as I head into my eighth week at Structure House. In fact, I’m actually getting ready to do an 80-mile bike ride with my dad for his 80th birthday. We have this saying in my family: “The Bensons never lose; we only learn.” We don’t consider anything a loss, but an opportunity to learn something. And that includes your lifestyle and your … Read More
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