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About Sunrise Health Medical Group, Inc.
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Sunrise Health
Medical Group, Inc. is among the largest and oldest medical practices in
Northern California
specializing in Preventive Medicine and particularly in
Bariatrics, the medical science and specialty of weight control.
We were working to combat the epidemic
of obesity long before it became a high-profile issue. In our offices,
you'll be in a warm, caring environment where you' re
not viewed as a nuisance or a delinquent but instead as a decent person with
a treatable medical problem.
We' re
interested in you; we 're interested in your weight problem; and we believe
we can help you.
We've treated nearly 100,000 patients
since
our founding over 25 years ago, and several of our nurses have lost
over 100 pounds themselves.
In fact,
over the years, more than a dozen of our nurses have achieved major weight
losses using one or another of our programs and the principles they learned
in our offices. We're proud of them and are particularly happy to
have them on our staff as we think their experiences uniquely equip them to
understand and help you or your family or friends with their weight
problems.
We are working
vigorously to give something back to our community. We are active members
of the UCSF Obesity Interest Group, the Strategic Alliance
for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, and the Ethnic Health Institute
at Summit Hospital in Oakland. All of these groups work to
combat the childhood epidemic of obesity now causing diabetes, high blood
pressure, and high cholesterol in an age group where they never previously
occurred..
Our Medical
Director speaks frequently at Oakland public schools and other community
groups to children and
their parents about ways to avoid becoming a statistic in the obesity
epidemic.
Our approach…
 We prescribe when indicated
a variety of FDA-approved appetite suppressants
including, for example, phentermine, Tenuate, and Bontril, and as
a result of our working relationship with obesity specialists at UCSF, we
may prescribe other cutting-edge medications not generally available
elsewhere.
We are one of
the few Bay Area
providers
of
the noted HMR® Meal Replacement Plans.
 These plans have been used for
many years at the University of Kentucky Obesity Clinic where they have been
extensively studied. Two recent studies indicated that people lose more
weight with this program than any comparable diet. In published medical
studies, the average weight loss of people using this program under a
doctor's supervision is 68 pounds.
These plans use a variety of
pre-packaged meals and weight-loss shakes to make proper eating as easy and
as convenient as imaginable. All that you add is your own fruit and
vegetables. There are no other food choices you have to make. Because of
the "more is better" feature of these plans, hunger is virtually eliminated
while you lose weight.
At all times, we recommend
and teach better food choices and reasonable levels of physical
activity. We are developing special groups at our local YMCAs where
patients who would like to increase their activity in a group setting will
be comfortable and happy.
We are not wedded to any single
theory or therapy.
You will not get cookie
cutter treatment in our offices. If there is a safe, scientific approach
that might be the solution soley for you, we
will provide it for you.
 Our interest is in seeing you lose weight
safely and reliably, and we are happy with any method that accomplishes
that.
In summary, we have the
most experience with the widest range of non-surgical weight control
therapies to be had anywhere in
Northern California.
Many, many thousands of people just like yourself have had excellent results
in our offices, and while everyone is unique, there is every reason to
expect that you will also be successful.
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