WLS Support Supporting Weight Loss Surgery

Newswise — A new study of obese adolescents has shown that laparoscopic gastric banding surgery — the “Lap-Band” procedure — not only helps them achieve significant weight loss but can also improve and even reverse metabolic syndrome, reducing their risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Read the rest of this entry →

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Weight-loss surgery may help obese women lower their risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday.

They found women who had weight-loss surgery were 42 percent less likely to develop cancer during a 10-year study published in the journal Lancet Oncology.

Men in the study did not benefit, possibly because many cancers are driven by female hormones such as estrogen, they said, or simply because fewer men get weight-loss surgery. Read the rest of this entry →

TORONTO — The U.S. Centres for Disease Control says chronic lung problems linked to obesity, not the obesity itself, appear to be raising some people’s risk of suffering bad disease when they get infected with swine flu.

Reports that obesity is common among people who have died from the new flu virus have led some public health officials to wonder whether it should be added to the list of risk factors for severe disease from influenza infection. Read the rest of this entry →

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sexual dysfunction that commonly occurs in morbidly obese men improves after weight loss surgery, according to a new study.

“Sexual dysfunction should be considered one of the numerous potentially reversible complications of obesity,” the study team concludes. Read the rest of this entry →

Source – Newswise

In reviewing the weight history of pancreatic cancer patients across their life spans, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that a high body mass index in early adulthood may play a significant role in an individual developing the disease at an earlier age. Read the rest of this entry →

Bariatric Surgery Centrers of Excellence Demonstrate Exceptional Safety
SRC Releases First Analysis from Largest National Bariatric Surgery Database

RALEIGH, NC (June 24, 2009) – Read the rest of this entry →

It’s pretty important for everyone considering or who has had WLS to read food labels. Pre-Ops should be choosing foods using the Rule of 5 so they are prepared for picking the right foods after surgery. Post-ops need to always choose foods that have 5 or less grams of sugar and 5 or less grams of fat. To do otherwise will probably result in “Dumping” as well as setting up the patient for using weight gaining foods. Read the rest of this entry →

Source – St Petersburg Times

Anyone exploring how to lose weight has already heard the story: “It’s all about input vs. output, eating less calories and burning more calories.”

However, many people still prefer going the diet route, searching for the illusive quick fix. They fail to realize that the fundamentals of nutrition are often compromised in favour of a “one size fits all” approach to weight loss. Read the rest of this entry →

Source -Newswise

Obesity is probably the most important factor in the development of insulin resistance, but science’s understanding of the chain of events is still spotty. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have filled in the gap and identified the missing link between the two. Their findings, to be published in the June 21, 2009 advance online edition of the journal Nature, explain how obesity sets the stage for diabetes and why thin people can become insulin-resistant. Read the rest of this entry →

A new study out of Canada finds that post-operative weight loss surgery patients are happier and healthier after bariatric surgery than they were prior.

The Weight Loss Benefits survey for bariatric surgery patients examined the outcomes of 386 post-operative patients from across the Great White North. Read the rest of this entry →