She says she was told that the ones from Medi-Weightloss were just as good. Cohen had prescribed her to make up for deficiencies after the surgery. She says she was told to stop taking the high-dose vitamins that Dr. Wanting to lose even more than the surgery offered, she paid her $268 initiation fee and accepted the vitamins they gave her. “It’s basically perpetuating this idea that you can be skinny if you just work hard enough at it and take enough pills,” said Cohen, primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School where his research focuses on diet supplements.Ĭohen brought Medi-Weightloss to my attention out of concern for a patient who went to the Watertown clinic after her bariatric surgery.
But I can’t say it’s irresponsible, super risky or totally pointless.ĭr. In short, the Medi-Weightloss plan seems extreme, its results are not supported by science, and it’s a for-profit business whose rate of expansion suggests those profits are coming in. Maybe taking medications that are not proven to help, but probably don’t do much harm in the short term, will give some the extra confidence they need to tackle such a challenging task. Maybe paying $1,200 for 14 weeks of treatment at Medi-Weightloss instead of as little as about $100 for Weight Watchers over the same period encourages some people to be more careful about what they eat, to work out a little harder. Maybe losing 20 pounds in a month and 50 in four is enough motivation for some people to keep on going and to transform their eating habits and lifestyles. And everyone has to find a way that works for them. That’s not to say that people should give up or that weight loss is hopeless, just that it’s very very hard. Most people can lose a decent percentage of their extra pounds most people can’t keep them off for more than a year. The problem is that no diet plan is really all that great. Sure the program is expensive – at least as costly as a weight loss program at Tufts Medical Center, arguably one of the best nutrition research institutions in the country. Sure, most people will regain most of the weight they lose. Now that I’ve done some digging, though, I’m having a harder time being judgmental. How could that be safe? Even if someone could stick to a crash diet like that, wouldn’t they just regain all the weight the minute they started eating again? When I first heard that Medi-Weightloss Clinics puts clients on a 600- to 800-calorie-a-day diet, I was horrified. Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old.
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