{"id":1456,"date":"2018-01-01T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T19:13:29","slug":"dr-wendy-scinta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Wendy Scinta"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lifestyle of Health<\/h1>\n

By Lorna Oppedisano | Photography by Mary Grace Johnson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Weight loss can be an intimidating concept. Facing the challenge of navigating fad diets and the potential for lifealtering diseases are just a couple overwhelming factors involved.<\/p>\n

With a combination of science and compassion, obesity medicine expert Dr. Wendy Scinta, founder of Medical Weight Loss of New York, has developed a successful approach to helping her patients establish and maintain healthier lifestyles.<\/p>\n

Wendy began her career as an electrical and computer engineer, before eventually switching gears and choosing family medicine. While completing her residency at Duke University, she noticed many diseases were treated with \u201cbandaids,\u201d she said, explaining that people diagnosed with high blood pressure were given blood pressure medication; those with high cholesterol were prescribed cholesterol medication; and so on.<\/p>\n

Through the Rice House Healthcare Program, she became familiar with a new approach \u2014 lifestyle management. The concept just clicked.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo after the core issue, and the rest will follow,\u201d Wendy explained. \u201cGet people off their medicines. Reverse diseases, don\u2019t treat diseases. They don\u2019t have to last a lifetime. Reverse the diseases by getting them healthier through lifestyle management.\u201d<\/p>\n

After beginning her medical career in family medicine, Wendy eventually realized obesity medicine was her calling and took the leap, devoting herself to the niche practice full time. A number of her family medicine patients were interested, as well. She found success \u201cright away, because it fed itself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Obesity medicine is defined by four pillars, Wendy explained. They are nutrition, what and how you eat; behavior, the why behind eating habits; exercise, how much you move; and medical management, probably the most important piece of what she personally does, Wendy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that is: what is contributing to this from a medical standpoint that I can potentially reverse?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Though Wendy\u2019s practice offers treatment to people of all ages, she is a nationally recognized expert on childhood obesity. Along with programs for adults, Medical Weight Loss of New York offers the BOUNCE program, an acronym for behavior, optimizing metabolism, united as a family, notation of food, counting steps and elimination diet. Wendy\u2019s recently published book, \u201cBOUNCE: A Weight-Loss Doctor\u2019s Plan for a Happier, Healthier, and Slimmer Child,\u201d outlines the program in detail for those parents who can\u2019t make it to Wendy\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Her approach to helping adults is similar to that of helping children; with each patient, she considers the whole person,\u00a0taking into account all four pillars of obesity medicine.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no magic pill or magic bullet, she stressed. She recommends people stay away from unregulated diet pills, adding that even regulated pills alone aren\u2019t a good solution. In terms of trendy diets, she\u2019s seen some prove successful, but said there\u2019s no \u201cmaster diet\u201d that works for everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be a lifestyle change, and it has to be something you can stick to for the rest of your life,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd you have to take into account your finances. You have to take into account what it is you like and what you think you can do long term that\u2019s healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wendy\u2019s advice is simple and straightforward: eat five times a day \u2014 three meals with snacks in between; always have a healthy breakfast; stick with lean proteins, fruits, vegetables and ancient grains; stay away from processed foods; drink water; and if you\u2019re stuck at a desk all day, try to move every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

While she\u2019s a nationally recognized weight loss expert \u2014 Wendy is the president of the Obesity Medicine Association \u2014 her roots still run deep in the tech world. Two years ago, she cofounded software company One Stone Technology, and recently began piloting text message-based software aimed at patient engagement. The team\u2019s goal is to develop the tool into a commercially viable product, Wendy said.<\/p>\n

Patients do well the day after they visit Wendy\u2019s office, she said, but healthy habits can be more difficult to maintain as time goes on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can keep them engaged and keep them interested in the journey throughout the time they\u2019re connected to the clinic, it really helps with the weight loss,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In everything she does, Wendy\u2019s spirituality inspires her. This extends from Medical Weight Loss of New York to One Stone Technology and beyond, to Dora\u2019s Dream, the foundation she recently established.<\/p>\n

Shortly before Wendy\u2019s lifelong friend passed away of chronic myelogenous leukemia three years ago, she connected Wendy with local pastor Carl Clark. From that connection grew the foundation, which aims \u201cto prevent and reverse childhood obesity and related conditions in minority communities through food, fitness, family and faith,\u201d according to Wendy\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really would like to make Syracuse the mecca of how private and public sectors can work together to improve the health of a community,\u201d Wendy said. \u201cI would like to get that message out at some point.\u201d SWM <\/em><\/p>\n

For more information on Wendy, visit drwendy.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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