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An article in the news recently, shouted that being obese as a child doubled the risk of premature death (i.e. death before the age of 55). ...

A recent article in the LA Times quoted a Dr Brandt as saying, about overweight teens that: "But these kids are dying! We’ve created s...

Jillian described this last week's episode as her very favorite (2nd week in Season 9) and asked people to give her feedback on her Face...

On the surface, the Shrek series of animated movies seems to promote size acceptance. The so called hero of these movies is a fat green trol...

In our Weight Loss surgery (WLS) informed consent online community (and support for ill long term WLS patients) we lost another former membe...

I found the article "Five Medical Reasons to consider weight loss surgery" while going through some old mail and it's interes...

Remember all the articles about how since gastric bypass patients have less ghrelin in their blood, their appetites are curved? What they al...

A study of over 850 weight loss surgery patients , 98.5 percent of whom were gastric bypass patients, found that in those of BMI 50 and high...

A radio show from the BBC recently featured a metastudy which concluded that obesity "causes" cancer. The researchers opined tha...

The following is to answer a comment - this was in two parts and had a lot of quotes in it so would be hard to read and brings up some point...

A recent Newsweek article opines that the chemicals in the air, namely the so called "phytoestrogens" may be causing today's ...

In the Sept 2nd issue of the "New Scientist" Magazine , they have an article about gastric bypass. The article presents the surger...

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

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

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...

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...

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...