Breaking News

Morbidly Obese Patients Often Return to Work After Bariatric Surgery

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 18 - After undergoing gastric bypass surgery to treat morbid obesity, roughly one third of medically disabled patients can return to full-time work, according to a report in the October issue of the Archives of Surgery.

More

Laparoscopic Banding Helps Obese Teens Lose Weight

October 10, 2007 (New Orleans) — Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) in obese adolescents results in fat mass loss and resolution of most comorbidities, as indicated by preliminary results of a new study presented at the American College of Surgeons 93rd Annual Clinical Congress.

More

Obese live longer after bypass

BOSTON: Gastric bypass surgery not only helps obese people drop weight and look better, it also helps them live significantly longer, according to two reports published yesterday.

More

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 29

Morbidly obese patients who do not undergo weight-loss surgery face a substantially greater mortality risk than patients who undergo bariatric surgery, according to a presentation this week at the 23rd annual meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery in San Francisco.

More

Evidence for portion control plate

The Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 167 No. 12, June 25, 2007) has published the results of a randomised controlled study into a commercially available portion control plate on weight loss in a cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes.

More

June 12, 2007 — Factors associated with weight regain after substantial weight loss are identified in a study in which data from the 1999 - 2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were analyzed. The study is published online June 5 and will appear in the July print issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

More

April 13, 2007 (Seattle) - A bariatric surgery procedure used for treating severe obesity is now being explored as a cure for type 2 diabetes mellitus in normal-weight and moderately overweight patients with diabetes. Specific recommendations for using surgery in these patients are expected to appear this summer, according to a presentation here at the annual meeting and clinical congress of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

More

Gastric Bypass Surgery Explored as Cure for Type 2 Diabetes

April 13, 2007 (Seattle) — A bariatric surgery procedure used for treating severe obesity is now being explored as a cure for type 2 diabetes mellitus in normal-weight and moderately overweight patients with diabetes. Specific recommendations for using surgery in these patients are expected to appear this summer, according to a presentation here at the annual meeting and clinical congress of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

More

Obesity 'as bad as climate change

'TORY SHEPHERD (Adelaide Now)
March 13, 2007

Click here to find out more.

November 13th 2006

A STUDY has found that 97 per cent of the population has tried to change their diets but most inevitably lapse back into their old and unhealthy eating habits.

The Australian Psychological Society (APS), which surveyed more than 1200 people across Australia, found 97 per cent of the people it interviewed had tried to improve their health by changing their diets.

Gastric Banding Surgery May Help Promote Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Patients

January 23, 2008 — Obese patients with type 2 diabetes who had gastric banding surgery lost more weight and had a higher likelihood of diabetes remission than did patients who used conventional methods for weight loss and diabetes control, according to a preliminary, unblended, randomized controlled trial reported in the January 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Society.

More