suethsayings

The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Update on second person to have brain surgery for weight loss

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Carol Poe, 60 years old, had had a "stomach stapling" (probably a VBG) and later was "revised" to a gastric bypass. Her ...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Weight Loss surgery death rates down? No evidence of this!

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An article on aol news with the headline of " Obesity Surgery death rates low " reads: -Obese, but worried that surgery for it mig...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

If it doesn't work the first time, get cut again

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When people talk about Weight loss surgery, they never talk about the long term outcome. Or if they do, it's vague. Long term patients...
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Friday, May 08, 2009

Brain pacemaker to lose weight?

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The Dr Oz newletter featured a lady named Carol who recently appeared on the Oprah Show . Carol is 5'2" and 287 lbs, and 60 years o...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

When you don't know, estimate

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In the realm of weight loss surgery, we have a kind of new phenomena in medicine. Instead of real results, we have the estimate. That is, w...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Biggest Loser - an exercise physiologist weighs in

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This is a guest blog by Laura Gideon, an exercise physiologist who was kind enough to write this for us. You can contact her on her website...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Does Gastric bypass lengthen lifespan?

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I received a comment on an old blog today and the misunderstandings in it are so great that I felt the need to answer this comment because m...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

the obese only have themselves to blame?

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Suppose a cancer patient walks into to the doctor and/or oncologist or hospital and before they treat her or maybe instead of treating her, ...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Review- Stress Eater Diet book

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I have been asked to take part in a "blog tour" reviewing the book, the Stress Eater Diet by Robert Posner, MD and Linda Hlivka, ...
Thursday, February 05, 2009

re-visit - diabetes and weight loss surgery

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If you listen to the TV, you will hear that weight loss surgery (either gastric bypass or lap band) "cures" diabetes. You will se...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Biggest Loser - revisited

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As you'all know here, if I am wrong, I will gladly admit it. And people have written comments to show me the error of my ways and if I s...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Biggest loser - not?

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Again we return to the controversial TV show everyone hates to watch. That's because Eric Chopin, one of the winners of the "Bigge...
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Saturday, January 03, 2009

dying from a surgery which might not work anyway

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The doctor gently told the family to dis-robe and remove their jewelry. They were standing outside a modern facility and were told that they...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Surgeons pressured based on flawed studies

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Based on a couple of studies suggesting increased lifespan in weight loss surgery patients, those studies being short and inconclusive and n...
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