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There are three new diet pills which are being boasted about in the news as safe and effective. In a nutshell, no they are neither safe nor...

I have noticed a new media campaign hawking gastric bypass for diabetes. And not only that but also they are suggesting this surgery (which...

In the latest from (who else) the ASBMS (the professional organization for bariatric surgeons), they presented a study in which they compare...

If you look at this blog , you will see the glowing report from a new op on the gastric sleeve. She didn't want the gastric bypass (adm...

Totally destroying the image of the fat kid overeating which has been so popular on the American scene, a new study out of Canada found that...

Did the headline get your attention? It's one we've all been waiting for and the story of a new study which was reported to suggest...

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...