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The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Friday, June 27, 2008

Bariatric surgery slashes cancer risk?

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Latest news - front page for several days - has been that having a gastric bypass can cut cancer risks. Bariatric surgeons at McGill Univers...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Brooke Bates revisited

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If you remember Brooke Bates, she's the 12 year old who had a lap band put in after having 35 lbs of fat removed by liposuction and diet...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

V-Bloc - new hope or old spin?

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Several years ago, they did a study on a device developed, I believe, in Switzerland called the "gastric pacer". Several US Weig...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

bogus claims in the news - gastric bypass extends life?

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Today I was chatting with some friends and someone brought up that some media column writer said you didn't have to put mayonnaise in th...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Dr Oz sells out to the Weight loss surgery industry!

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I looked forward to Dr Oz's new program "The Oz Files" on Discovery Health. This week's episode was entitled "Defeat...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Can you be fat and fit? Latest spin says "No"

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Based on a "data dredge" study (meaning they took existent data which was not designed for THAT study so is outdated and also does...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

60 minutes LIES about gastric bypass

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Apparently, some surgeons are getting worried about the lap band taking over the top spot in bariatric surgery (why ever would that be? Bec...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

What are we doing to our teens?

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Most teens I talk to, feel they are fat, even though they are not. Several teens I know personally, started smoking to control their we...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Carnie Wilson - failed WLS? I don't think so...

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I watched a video this morning, of an interview with Carnie where even with a body suit she admitted to wearing (full length girdle) she lo...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Big Medicine - Big Problems?

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The TV show we all love to hate, "Big Medicine" which details two surgeons in Texas, father and son, who "practice Weight Los...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The cost of obesity and other spin

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It's good to know how to interpret spin - that's the newspaper word for what Orwell called "Newspeak". For example, we are...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

If the RNY is so risky, why do they keep doing it?

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I recently received a very thoughtful comment by someone researching WLS and decided that since many other folks may have similar questions,...
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