Dr. Rafael Bolio
Expert in Nutrition, Author & Public Speaker
Dr. Rafael Bolio is known as the “Nutritionist for the Stars” and for more than 30 years has been dedicated to studying and battling obesity while helping hundreds of celebrities and movie stars to achieve spectacular figures. Among his best-known Mexican super stars are: Thalia, Angelica Vale, Angelica Maria, Galilea Montijo and Kate del Castillo just to name a few.
In 1980, Dr. Bolio began obesity treatment with an original pharmacological protocol, using the same principles that 15 years later other investigators applied in the phentermine-fenfluramine procedure. In 1985, he established the theory that the main causes of weight gain were under-nutrition/ malnutrition, and began treating his patients with a non-calorie restricted program.
At the Annual Conference of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity held on November of 2004, Dr. Bolio presented his investigation and findings of “The Effect of a Minimum 2100 Calorie Balanced Diet on Obese Middle Age Women”. This research is now known as the “Bolio System”.
What makes the “Bolio System” exceptional is that Dr. Bolio reduces weight exactly in the parts that you want to lose, without interfering with the parts of your body you are happy with. What is also amazing about his weight reduction program is that it will make you eat more rather than less to lose weight, and therefore never be hungry. As a specialist in Internal Medicine, he developed a system that also helps eliminate or control stress, diabetes, cholesterol, triglycerides, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis, migraine, asthma, as well as many others ailments. Other benefits of the system are enhanced intellectual performance, improved sleeping habits, more youthful skin, increased hair growth, increased sexual performance and increased fertility.
In 1994, after years of using different combinations, he developed a series of balanced meal combinations that favored preferential loss of abdominal fat without restricting calorie intake. He published this program in his “bestseller book” which still remains on the list of the top five most sold in Mexico, selling more than a million copies. No other diet book in Mexican history has even held 10th place in sales. It is well known as a literary phenomenon and was named by literary media book of the year in 1998.This book “Las dietas engordan, comer adelgaza” (“Diets make you fat, eating makes you skinny”) destroys the myth that “eating in abundance will make you gain weight”.
In 1998, Dr. Bolio participated in developing the legal criteria for obesity treatment known as the Official Mexican Standard. The Mexican Government named a panel of experts which included Dr. Bolio to establish the most effective and healthy way to address and resolve this problem. The following year the Mexican Board of Internal Medicine, one of the most prestigious agencies in the area of health acknowledged Dr. Bolio for his expertise, findings and recommendations.
With his success in obesity treatment, he was invited by the Mexican government to work in a national weight loss program. There he developed the Habit Changing Workshop, which is applied nationwide up to this date. This is the program used by specialty hospitals in Mexico to treat obesity. To this date, Mexico is the only government to address volume more than weight, and nutrition more than restrictions.
Rafael Bolio was born in Tampico, Mexico; he came to the United States at the age of 11 years old and was raised in San Diego, California where he graduated from high school as Valedictorian, Student Body Vice President, Captain and most valuable player of the tennis team. At the age of 17, he attended the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, graduating in 1977. He specialized in Internal Medicine at the Medical Center La Raza in Mexico City. At age 30, he became the youngest Chief of Staff of Intensive Care Ward in the country, and two years later the Mexican government recognized him as “Doctor of the Year” for his excellent work in creating and organizing this Ward.
Dr. Bolio currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where he also heads his weight reduction clinics and conducts seminars worldwide on weight loss and nutrition where he illustrates the Bolio System, “Eat to lose weight”.