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The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Friday, May 15, 2015

New Diabetes drugs have gnarly side effects!

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New diabetes drugs?  ... they have some gnarly side effects!  The promos want to make it look like low sugar levels are the worst si...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

A weight loss journey with a lap band can be difficult

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Melonie on the Rikki Lake show  Melonie had a lap band in 2012 (approx) and she lost over 100 lbs in about 6-9 months. She loved her b...
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Saturday, March 14, 2015

UK teen wants gastric band but seems unaware of what she will face post surgery

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A 238 lb UK teen is desperate (she writes) for a gastric band weight loss surgery because she says she's been taunted and bullied a...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Big Push for Weight Loss surgery

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Tom holds photo of his daughter who died shortly after her gastric bypass - parents of patients who die or become sick, suffer very much f...
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Sunday, February 01, 2015

Gastric Sleeve revisited

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The sleeve gastrectomy is the popular procedure these days.  Those promoting this surgery suggest it's safer than the gastric bypass ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Maestro system - a v-bloc by any other name is still a v-bloc? :)

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Entermedics has re-introduced in 2015, a device for weight loss which sounded good in 2008 and 2010 but did not produce good weight loss a...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

Gastric bypass on TLC TV show

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My dearest friend in life, Trish, who died way too early, from complications of a WLS she had had several years previous.  I still miss...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Permanent Weight loss only Possible with Surgery?

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    So say the providers in the latest article circulating the net...  that the ONLY way to keep off weight is to have one's sto...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Questionable studies on obesity and weight loss surgery abound

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Yet another eye catching headline hit recently.  " Obesity primes the colon for cancer !", it triumphantly announced. And what...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Demise of a Great Blog

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One of the most honest blogs on WLS (this patient sustained a seizure disorder after her gastric bypass and found 150 other patients who ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Another one lost

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One of the most difficult things with being involved with weight loss surgery patients is when one observes people passing on, way too ea...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Weight Loss surgery stories or -- ads?

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The latest news on Weight Loss surgery reminds us that the media openly admits they don't feel obligated to tell the truth. And often wh...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Guest blog - Daily Life with a gastric bypass

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In this guest blog by Lisa Sargese, a college professor, who had a gastric bypass several years ago, she details how it feels to fight o...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Gastric bypass - the holy grail of weight loss surgery?

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The holy grail of weight loss, is hoping that somehow food will not appeal to us so we will lose weight.  A new study states that weight...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

We get angry letters sometimes....

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We get angry letters sometimes ... Wayne B, a gastric sleeve patient (and I would bet a "new op") writes the following: Reg...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Weight Loss surgery does not reduce health care costs in the long term.

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A long term study on weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery or WLS)  found no reduction in health care costs on the long term.   The s...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Life saving weight loss surgery claims another

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Since it's January, there is a big push by those selling weight loss and also for weight loss su rgery.  TV is showing a lot of progra...
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