HMR Wins Multiple Awards for Website and Social Media Efforts
(July, 2010) HMR, in partnership with Silverscape, a Boston-based web design firm, has received several awards for Creative Excellence from the prestigious New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA). The awards showcase the best of the best in direct marketing across New England, and recognize excellence in such categories as direct mail, interactive media, and social media.Read more
HMR Dieter Loses 115 Pounds, Gains a Spot on Local News
(May, 2010) It’s not every day someone loses 115 pounds and gets a chance to share their story in the local media. Read more
HMR Donates Thousands of BeneFit® Bars for Haitian Relief Effort
(February, 2010) HMR was honored to recently donate 5,000 BeneFit Nutrition Bars to assist in the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. HMR was contacted by the William J. Clinton Foundation with a specific request to donate nutrition bars. Former President Bill Clinton traveled with the bars, along with other much needed supplies, on his second trip to Haiti last week.
According to Christine Weithman, MBA, RD, LDN, Director of Nutrition Services and Product Development for HMR, “HMR was pleased to be approached for a donation.” She adds that “HMR will gladly donate more bars, or entrees, or any other HMR foods they feel would be useful for the people of Haiti.” Read more New Year’s Diet Resolutions - Big Savings with New and Improved HMR at Home® Diet Kits
(December, 2009) To help even more people lose weight and save money in the new year, HMR is offering significant savings on the Healthy Solutions Quick Start™ Diet Kits. Now with even more free support, including a motivating Quick Start™ CD and improved dieting “how to” materials, the kits include all the HMR diet foods needed to start losing a lot of weight right away. (Dieters add fruits and vegetables.)
Free membership in the HMR at Home® program includes automatic delivery of HMR diet kit foods every two weeks, always with 10% off and free shipping, for an initial savings of $40.00. Read more
Holiday Tips: Cutting Calories in Half
The facts behind the fat and the holidays: Many Americans gain extra weight between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. We overeat during the holiday and promise to go on a diet after the New Year; it is probably the most popular New Year’s resolution. It has been estimated that as many as 50% of Americans begin diets in the New Year.Read more
HMR Presents Latest Research at The Obesity Society Annual Conference
Data Documents Weight Loss and Medical Improvements
(October, 2009) HMR will present a series of posters highlighting the documented health improvements of patients participating in the HMR Program for Weight Management™ at The Obesity Society‘s 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, DC. HMR will share the following outcome data:
• Patients with pre-diabetes who lose greater amounts of
weight have greater reductions in medical risk
factors and medication use.
• Automatic delivery of meal replacements is a useful
strategy for participants in a self-care weight
management program.
• Obese patients who decrease BMI to overweight range
have significant changes in lifestyle and
medical risk factors.
• Improvement in medical risk factors for 1,000 patients in
ongoing treatment program. Read more
HMR Exhibits at American Dietetic Association's Annual Conference
(October, 2009) Keeping with a precedent set over 20 years ago, HMR will once again exhibit at the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition Conference and Exposition (FNCE), taking place in Denver, Colorado. HMR will share the latest weight-loss and weight maintenance outcome data from its clinical weight-loss programs, including the latest peer-reviewed study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Thousands of Registered Dietitians are expected to attend the event which showcases the latest in nutrition science information and food service trends. Education sessions cover the hot topics in nutrition, including obesity, alternative medicine, culinary trends, life-cycle nutrition, and medical nutrition therapy. For more information about the 2009 FNCE conference, go to www.eatright.org
Three New Entrees Added to HMR’s Meal Replacement Menu
(September, 2009) To provide dieters even more options for cutting hundreds of calories each day, HMR recently introduced three new delicious calorie and portion-controlled entrees: Rich and creamy Beef Stroganoff with Noodles, hearty and tender Beef Pot Roast with Vegetables and Gravy, plus flavorful and filling vegetarian Pasta Fagioli.
“We surveyed thousands of HMR dieters and program staff across the country to determine which new entree flavors we should introduce,” notes Christine Weithman, MBA, RD, LDN, Director of Nutrition Services and Product Development for HMR. She adds that, “So far, the response has been overwhelmingly positive.” Read more
New Study Shows HMR Program with HMR Meal Replacements Top Strategy for Weight Loss
(August, 2009) According to a new study in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, HMR’s portion and calorie-controlled meal replacements used as part of a structured weight-loss program are successful in facilitating medically significant weight loss.
The study looked at dieters using HMR’s meal replacements and intensive behavioral program. Dieters used one of two weight-loss options: patients with diabetes, hypertension, or other weight-related medical problems used HMR’s medically supervised Decision Free® Diet. Other dieters used HMR’s Healthy Solutions® Diet. All dieters attended weekly classes, kept food records, had mid-week phone calls with a health educator, and burned a minimum of 2,000 exercise calories each week.
Patients on the medically supervised diet lost an average of 43.3 pounds in 19 weeks. Patients on the Healthy Solutions diet lost an average of 37.5 pounds in 18 weeks. These data represent two to three times more weight loss, in less time, compared to published results of any other commercial diet program. Read more
HMR Program Helps Dieter Lose Over 100 Pounds and Save Thousands of Dollars
(July, 2009) Many people may delay starting a diet plan due to the perceived cost of the program. However, at a recent national conference of clinicians and healthcare professionals, HMR shared the story of a dieter who says that the HMR Program actually saved him over $5,000 in a year.
Before starting the HMR diet, Sam M. was on more than 16 medications, with an average monthly bill of $300.00 out of pocket. After losing 125 pounds with HMR’s Decision Free®Diet, he is off all but four of those medications, saving approximately $260.00 every month. Additionally, Sam went from 150 units of insulin a day, to none, and he no longer needs a breathing machine to sleep.
Spring Social Season Survival - Celebrate without Gaining Weight
(June, 2009) Graduations, weddings, barbecues...springtime is full of social occasions which are a challenge to anyone trying to lose weight, or maintain their current weight. However, with a little pre-planning and simple substitutions, you could save hundreds, sometimes thousands of calories. HMR offers the following calorie-saving suggestions:
Top Five Tips to Make Your New Year""s Diet Resolution Stick
(December, 2008) Losing weight is one of the most popular New Year""s resolutions. However, simply "resolving" to lose weight won""t work unless you have some concrete strategies in place. HMR, the weight-loss experts, offers the following proven tips to help increase your chances of losing the weight you want this year.
HMR Shares Top Strategy to Prevent or Delay Diabetes
(November, 2008) Diabetes has become a top health concern in the U.S., ranking as the sixth leading cause of death, with 125,000 new cases diagnosed every 30 days. Although there are some genetic factors over which you have no control that could put you at increased risk (such as a family history of type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol), there are other risk factors that you can control, which could lower your risk substantially.
Read more HMR Celebrates 25 Years of Excellence in Dieting and Weight Loss (1983 - 2008)
(June, 2008) This summer, Health Management Resources celebrated its 25th year of providing effective diet foods and innovative health and weight management programs to dieters across the country. Since 1983, HMR has relied on patient data and scientific research to continually improve the program, allowing dieters to learn the most effective weight loss and weight maintenance strategies. As the nation’s leading provider of medically supervised weight loss programs, HMR has helped more than one million dieters lose weight and learn the skills critical for long-term weight management.
(April, 2008) The April issue of the prestigious and well-read Medical Economics Magazine included HMR in a feature on potential services that office-based primary care physicians could add to their practice.HMR was the only weight-loss program that was profiled in the cover article titled “The Quest for New Ancillaries”.Lawrence T.P. Stifler, Ph.D., founder and president of HMR, provided an outline of a streamlined version of the HMR Program for Weight Management™ that is currently used by private practice healthcare professionals across the country.Dr. Stifler stressed that the streamlined program includes many of the same elements of the more comprehensive clinic-based HMR Program, including the use of meal replacements, exercise, increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, and keeping records of food and physical activity calories.
HMR at Home® Diet Kits Highlighted in Women""s Health Magazine
(March, 2008) A weight-loss feature in the March issue of Women’s Health, a monthly women’s health and fitness magazine, highlighted the HMR at Home Program as an effective dieting strategy because it does not require complicated formulas, math, or counting calories. In fact, the first suggestion in the article was to enroll in a meal-delivery service such as HMR at Home, which includes delivery of weight-loss foods and diet support materials. The article recommended signing up for such a service because it allows for “portion control without the decimal points.” The advantage of such a service is that dieters can receive meals in “just-right sizes” delivered to their doorstep each week. Another advantage is that the portion sizes of packaged weight-loss foods help train the dieter on proper portion sizes to help make smarter choices when creating meals on their own.
HMR Featured in Obesity Management Journal
(December, 2007) HMR was one of four national diet programs highlighted in the December issue of Obesity Management, the official publication of the Centers of Obesity Research and Education. The article looked at weight-loss programs that use meal replacements as the primary dieting tool. The article concluded that "meal replacements are an effective decision-free tool individuals can employ to help them lose significant amounts of weight without surgery."
(October, 2007) HMR presented a series of abstracts and posters highlighting the documented health improvements of patients participating in the HMR Program for Weight Management™ at the Obesity Society""s 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Read more American Dietetic Association’s (ADA) Annual Conference
(October, 2007) James L. Early M.D., Medical Director for the HMR Program at the Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, and Linda M. Gigliotti, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., Program Director of the HMR Program at the University of California at Irvine, were featured speakers at this year’s annual FNCE conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 27th–October 2nd.
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HMR Introduces the Company’s First Multigrain Weight-loss Cereal
(October, 2007) HMR recently added its much anticipated multigrain hot cereal to its extensive line of diet foods. With a unique blend of three whole grains and dried fruit, plus added protein, vitamins, and minerals, the new HMR Multigrain Hot Cereal has a nutrition profile superior to any other commercially available oatmeal.
(August, 2007) Recent published research in a leading scientific journal demonstrate how HMR""s intensive diet and lifestyle education program can result in dramatic reductions in the number and doses of medications, as well as the cost of medications, for patients who lost 100 pounds or more. The study found that the discontinued medications translated into a cost savings of $100 a month.
(August, 2007) HMR meal replacements and the HMR Program for Weight Management™ received national attention when they were prominently highlighted in the August 21, 2007 issue of Woman""s World Magazine. The article revealed recently published HMR data results which showed weight losses of 100 or more pounds were possible without resorting to fad diets or surgery.
Read more American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)
HMR to Exhibit at 2007 Annual Meeting
(August, 2007) HMR will share successful data from the HMR Program for Weight Management™ and provide an overview of all HMR treatment options at the nation""s largest gathering of diabetes educators during the AADE""s Annual Meeting and Exhibition August 1-4 in St. Louis, Missouri. Read more Harvard Obesity Conference
HMR Founder and President Speaks at International Conference on Obesity
(June, 2007) HMR""s founder and President, Lawrence T.P. Stifler, Ph.D., spoke at the prestigious "International Conference on Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity" in Cambridge, MA, in late June, 2007.
New Research from Leading Medical School Shows 100-Pound Weight Loss Possible Without Surgery.
(March, 2007) Although bariatric surgery is often recommended as the treatment of choice for many individuals with severe obesity, newly published research shows there is a viable alternative. Results from a study of over 1,000 participants in the HMR Program for Weight Management™ (a comprehensive weight-loss program offered in leading hospitals and medical centers across the country) indicate that an intense behavioral treatment is an effective intervention for severely obese individuals, and is associated with substantially less risk than bariatric surgery.
Study Shows Surprising 25-Pound Weight Loss with Diet Delivered Entirely over the Phone
Weight Loss Comparable to "Clinic" Program
(February, 2007) For millions of people frustrated with diet programs and fads that just don’t work, data presented at two recent nutrition and obesity conferences show there is hope with a phone-based program developed by Health Management Resources® (HMR).
What is the best way to lose weight? As the nation’s leading provider of weight treatment services to the medical community, Health Management Resources (HMR) knows there is no magic bullet for weight loss. Read more
“Before I lost weight with HMR, I could see that my future would only bring more health problems and I’d need more and more medications. Now, I’m off my diabetes medication and I feel 100 percent better.”
—Danny H.
lost 100 pounds
HMR’s published data for the type of program Danny participated in shows 50–60 pounds average weight loss. Many people lose more weight.
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