Cornerstone

The two seemingly insurmountable problems facing physicians today, are the obesity epidemic and the financial maelstrom in private practice due to waning health insurance reimbursement combined with ever increasing costs of medical practice. It is doubtful either of these problems will abate anytime soon. The Cornerstone Wellness Program was created to at least partially ameliorate both of these very real issues.

The most common disease that practicing physicians see every day is obesity. Easily half their time and effort is spent medicating the sequelae, namely metabolic syndrome. Physicians however are terribly ill equipped to manage these conditions. Lack of time and reimbursement, their experience that 'nothing works', lack of training in the management of overweight and obesity, and perhaps most importantly, absence of a 'plan', has resulted in frustration on the part of both provider and patient. The greatest epidemic since the Great Plague is being largely ignored by the very people who are responsible for the health of this nation, as they simply don't know how to handle it. Until now that is.

The Cornerstone Program is the first and only integrated, comprehensive, turnkey approach to the management of obesity and metabolic syndrome in the physician's office practice. Utilizing the most advanced FDA cleared body composition analyzer, the BC-1, allows physicians to follow fat loss and lean body mass to accuracy on par with DEXA, the gold standard. An appropriate caloric goal is determined for each patient along with an online meal program, based on healthy macronutrient proportions, allows the patient to stay within these parameters. The only FDA cleared calorie tracking device, the CT-1, based on the triaxial accelerometer, ensures patient compliance with their exercise program, since the physician can view each patient's daily caloric expenditure online. A huge library of resistance training movements, along with instructions and visuals, helps the patient gain or increase their muscle mass, insuring long term success. And lastly, a small group of synergistic nutraceutical supplements, including the most nutritious and only all natural, physician dispensed, high protein partial meal replacement, affords tremendous satiety, the recommended levels of protein required for maintenance of lean body mass to prevent drops in BMR, as well as normalization of elevated insulin levels, which in a nutshell is the cause of obesity.

Physicians begin practicing true preventive medicine leading to greater professional satisfaction and empowering patients to take control of their lives. As medications are discontinued, health care costs diminish significantly so that every segment of the health care system benefits.

The Cornerstone of good health is optimal nutrition and adequate exercise and with this aptly named program installed in their practice, physicians can now move from the current 'sick care' model that American medicine has adopted and begin practicing true health care.