Millions of people today are considered obese. Obese weight levels are anything over 25% of the body mass.

Extreme obesity can cause many health issues relating to your weight because the body has to be able to carry the weight. With weight problems, you will most likely experience high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes.

If you find that you are over weight it is best that you find a way to shed the extra pounds. Dieting doesn’t have to be difficult - by eating right according to the food pyramid and getting some proper exercise you can easily lose weight. Most diets will even let you have items from the goodies box on the pyramid. In theory, you can eat whatever you want but in little quantities.

Even a walk around the house or making your bed can give your body a good start towards becoming healthy. The side effect of being heavy is too devastating to your health.

SAMG, founded by Dr. Nissan kahen, is one primary care clinic in Los Angeles that offers quality care and excellent treatment for several conditions including obesity. Visit SAMG or Dr. Nissan kahen’s site for more information.

Primary health care is the basic or general health care focused on the point at which a patient ideally first seeks assistance from the medical care system.

Physicians have traditionally provided the care, but, increasingly, it is provided by other personnel such as nurse practitioners or physician assistants.

Primary care is considered comprehensive when the primary care provider enters into a sustained partnership with the patient to take responsibility for the overall coordination for the care of the patient’s health problems; biological, behavioral, or social. This kind of comprehensive service is proving to be so convenient and satisfactory, that more and more people prefer today.

One such is the South Atlantic Medical Group (SAMG) of Los Angeles, a medical professional organization committed to the healing mission of Medicine. All patients are treated with full effort and resource utilization as indicated by their condition. All activities of SAMG support the healing mission of offering health services to its patients and are based on SAMG’s core values.

SAMG was founded by Dr. Nissan kahen and has 5 primary care clinic locations in Los Angeles County. It offers a wide range of specialties for the whole family under a wider range of basics like General Medicine, Pediatrics, Minor procedures, Women's health and other services like Laboratory, Radiology, and Pharmaceutical services.

Diabetes affects three to five per cent of Western population. In those with diabetes, the body's cells cannot absorb and use glucose (sugar) adequately for lack of, or resistance to, the hormone insulin.

The immediate dangers of diabetes are hyperglycemia - high blood sugar - and ketoacidosis, a build-up of ketone bodies in the blood which can lead to diabetic coma, even death. The long term complications of the disease include growth failure in children, damage to the blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves, hypertension (high blood pressure), elevated blood cholesterol, heart disease and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) disorders, especially in the feet.

Management of the disease requires careful attention to diet, exercise and, when needed, medications to keep blood sugar as close as possible to the normal range.

IT'S the fifth deadliest disease in the United States, and it has no cure. In fact, diabetes has become so insidious--striking more people than ever, and at an earlier age than ever--that medical and nutrition experts say it has reached pandemic levels.

But there is hope. Cutting-edge research and earlier recognition of symptoms, combined with new combinations of medications and a team approach to tackling the disease, are helping people with diabetes live longer, and healthier lives. The example of one such is the South Atlantic Medical Group founded by Dr. Nissan kahen, that operates primary care medical clinics and serves several thousand patients throughout Los Angeles. It has excellent physicians and support staff that offer high quality primary, preventive, diagnostic and acute patient care as well as direct or referral access to a wide range of specialties for the whole family.

Dr. Nissan Kahen recently announced the launch of a newly redesigned website for South Atlantic Medical Group (SAMG).

Dr. Nissan Kahen is medical director for SAMG, a leading medical group in Los Angeles that provides primary, preventive, diagnostic and acute/urgent patient care. SAMG also provides direct and referral access to a wide range of medical specialists for the whole family, including Medicare and Medi-Cal (Medicaid in CA) beneficiaries and persons seeking immigration medical examinations. It has primary family care clinics in five convenient locations - in the areas of Commerce, Huntington Park, El Monte, Bell Gardens and Gardena - to serve patients quickly and efficiently.

Located at www.samg.org, the website features clinic locations, services offered, news updates, suggested health and medical Internet resources and information on the SAMG founding physician, Nissan Kahen, MD.

The samg.org website allows users to access SAMG news and updates as well as medical and healthcare news summaries. The website is designed to provide a professional image, useful healthcare and medical information and easy navigation. Browse the website at www.SAMG.org for more information about SAMG or call 323-725-0167 to schedule an appointment or for other information about SAMG.

This blog is about Dr. Nissan kahen and his South Atlantic Medical Group (SAMG) of which he is the founder, that operates primary care medical clinics and serves several thousand patients throughout Los Angeles.











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