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Dr Phil, on a re-run show, aired again this past week, recently featured a lady who had just been named "the World's Heaviest Wo...

RNY-loose skin- The following is from my notes watching a program called "The Real Skinny" on TLC.  (The Real Skinny, program ...

Carnie Wilson , singer and daughter of Beach Boy, Brian Wilson (pictured in red dress in photo with her singing group);  got a RNY gastric...

In case you haven't heard by now, Dr Oz on Monday, January 23, had a segment about the gastric bypass surgery for weight loss, tou...

Obesity might cause inflammation in the brain, shouts out the latest headliner coming out of the NPR News. According to the NPR articl...

Does anyone remember the professor/researcher at Harvard Medical School, Dr Frank Hu, who came up with the conclusion that if a person was...

In case you haven't heard of the Obesity Action Coalition, they are a group determined to rid the world of obesity by way of weight loss...

Every so often someone sends me an email, entitled "The People of Walmart". Apparently, these are supposed to be uproariously fun...

Malissa Jones of the UK first made the news in 2008 when she became the youngest person to have a gastric bypass in her country. At the tim...

In a metastudy in Canada, researchers found that in initial weight loss, the intestinal bypass was the most effective and running close se...

GlaxoSmithKline has announced it's dropping the OTC version of Orlistat i.e. Alli, a diet drug from those drugs they sell. Ironically...

Interestingly enough, the news article in many news services including the NY Times, suggesting a "new breakthrough" in obesity d...

ABC News broke the story with the headline, "Stomach Pacemaker could help obese lose weight!". A new device, they continued, reco...

A recent announcement stated that the UK had done 450 TOGA procedures for treating obesity. The TOGA procedure offers an "incision-les...

A study which followed 400 gastric bypass patients , found that the average BMI at the 2 year point, was 32, still obese. The study was con...

Surgery used to be something done to save lives. But now it's often done for other reasons like to lose weight. Recently a 52 year old ...

An article on CNN covers the weight loss of a man who went (they claim) from almost 500 lbs to "one-der-land". The man, Matt Hoov...

A new study of 1.5 million people suggests that obesity, even overweight, shortens your lifespan. So says the study - obese people are 44% ...

Lately the reality show, "The Biggest Loser" in which they sequester several clinically obese people, put them through grueling wo...