Bariatric Surgery Improves Asthma Asthma afflicts over 23 million Americans today and has many risk factors. It can be an extremely debilitating and terrifying disease. There is good news for … [Read more...]
Patient Died During an Obesity Drug Trial
Obesity is a problem rising out of control at an enormous rate. If you are obese, you know all of the problems associated with it from social stigmas, health issues, decreased physical ability, and … [Read more...]
Exercising and Weight Loss Surgery
For many of us, exercising has never been a routine in our daily lives, especially for the morbidly obese. Physical activity is essential to feeling healthier, losing extra weight more quickly and … [Read more...]
The Link Between Obesity and Ovarian Cancer
Weight loss surgery has many health benefits which we already know. But, there is a link between obesity and ovarian cancer that needs to also be made aware to women. This link between obesity and … [Read more...]
Death and Obesity?
The benefits of bariatric surgery are well known. Does the resolution of these medical issues and weight loss actually help a person live longer? As shown in a past study, death and obesity go hand … [Read more...]
Can Weight Loss Surgery Reverse Liver Disease?
Weight loss surgery can have many health benefits beyond just weight loss. In some cases, it can reduce or eliminate the negative effects of other diseases. Let’s take a look at liver disease in … [Read more...]
Genetics and Obesity: A Link Exists
Recently scientists have discovered a genetic pathway that predisposes us to store energy from food as fat instead of being burned as fuel for our bodies. Could disabling this genetic pathway stop our … [Read more...]
Obesity and Uterine Cancer: A Serious Relationship Exists
Some things are very difficult to comprehend when the diagnosis of cancer is made and we try to think of what could have been done differently. Why we were the ones with the diagnosis. Why would … [Read more...]
Diabetes and Bariatric Surgery: A Miracle Cure?
Diabetes is a dangerous medical illness with severe complications, including high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure, just to name a few. The toll this disease takes on patients … [Read more...]
Teenage Obesity: The Growing Concern
Obesity not only affects our adult population. Teenage obesity affects upwards of 30% of children in America. That number is going higher each year as obesity has more than doubled in children and … [Read more...]