Weight Loss Surgery News – November 27, 2009
Watch this week’s WLS News to hear an encouraging report about 50 obese teenagers who underwent Lap-Band surgery–and how their lives have changed. We’ll also tell you how probiotics can affect weight loss, share details about a possible link between teenage obesity and multiple sclerosis, and explain what a new coalition is doing to persuade Congress to provide affordable health [...]

Diet Soda Is Not Helping Obesity Epidemic
Diet soda, as it turns out, is not much better for you than regular soda — a new study shows. Find out more on this week’s WLS News. Numerous studies have blamed soda for helping spread the obesity epidemic, but there’s new information showing that diet soda isn’t all that wonderful either. Diet soda may not add [...]

Cancer Rates Among Obese People Continue to Rise
Cancer rates among people who are obese continue to rise, new studies indicate. Watch this week’s WLS News to find out more. A new study indicates that obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer each year. The American Institute for Cancer Research has connected more than 30,000 annual cases of breast cancer and nearly 14,000 cases [...]

Weight Loss Surgery Transforms Yvonne McCarthy Into ‘Bariatric Girl’
Weight loss surgery helped Yvonne McCarthy lose 120 pounds. Today, she’s best known as Bariatric Girl and loves to help others on their weight loss journey. When I was in the fourth grade, puberty hit.  Being thin, as I knew it, was over. Being very athletic and playing sports didn’t help either.  I found out very early [...]

Many Swine Flu Patients Are Obese
Many swine flu patients are obese, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Watch this week’s WLS News to find out more. New statistics show that a high number of people who have been hospitalized for swine flu are also obese. According the Journal of the American Medical Association, roughly 25 percent of patients hospitalized [...]