• Categories
  • Weight Loss News
  • Weight Loss Tips
• Recent Posts
  • The Down Side to Downsizing Your Waistline (LiveScience.com)
  • Epitwin: Largest Ever Epigenetics Project Launched
  • Tired of Soggy Square Bread? Try These 5 Bun Options for Your Sandwich
  • News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: September 7, 2010
  • Consumers Misled By Low-Carbohydrate Claims
• Tags
  Adolescents Adults Amp Annual Meeting Bariatric Surgery Body Mass Index Body Mass Index Bmi Childhood Obesity Cholesterol Diabetes Diet Doctors Exercise Gastric Surgery Health Healthday Heart Disease High Blood Pressure Lead Lose Weight Medicine Obese Obese Children Obese Patients Obese People Obese Women Obesity Obesity Children Obesity Epidemic Obesity Rates Overweight Parents People Physical Activity Reuters Risk School Of Medicine Scientists Sleep Type 2 Diabetes Type Diabetes United States Weight Gain Weight Loss Weight Loss Surgery

Reuters - Gastric bypass surgery may reduce the high drive to eat that is typically found in severely obese people, a new study suggests.

Gastric bypass surgery can help lower cholesterol and improve the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL (good) cholesterol, according to a new study presented here at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)…

A study of nearly 38,000 patients found Caucasian, Hispanic and female patients have the fewest complications and the shortest hospital stays after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, according to University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers who presented their findings today at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)…

Gastric bypass surgery improves Type 2 diabetes by other mechanisms in addition to weight loss and does so better than a low-calorie diet despite achieving equal weight loss, a new study finds. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego…

People who have gastric band surgery to lose weight are at risk of low self-esteem, relationship problems and being dissatisfied with their body image, according to new research being presented at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference (APC)…

Severely obese teenagers in Scotland are to be offered obesity medicine and gastric band surgery as part of a new range of possible treatment options to reduce weight. SIGN , who develop clinical guidelines in Scotland, have recommended new guidelines on managing obesity and have set out a new range of treatments to manage and reduce obesity in children and young people…

AFP - Lap-band surgery for severely overweight teenagers on Wednesday won support from Australian researchers after a study found the procedure helped them lose 80 percent of their excess fat.

AFP - Australian researchers Wednesday said a new study supported the use of lap-band surgery for severely overweight teenagers after it found the procedure helped them lose 80 percent of their excess fat.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) — Severely obese teens who
received gastric banding surgery lost significantly more weight than those
who made lifestyle changes such as dieting and exercise, Australian
researchers report.

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery can effectively treat obesity in adolescents and seems to offer a better alternative than gastric bypass surgery, but further study is needed to determine whether it’s better than nonsurgical options, a UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeon writes in an editorial in the Feb. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association…

Next Page →

• 
  
•  

  September 2010

  S	M	T	W	T	F	S
  « Aug
  			1	2	3	4
  5	6	7	8	9	10	11
  12	13	14	15	16	17	18
  19	20	21	22	23	24	25
  26	27	28	29	30

• Archives
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008