Yearly Archives August 28, 2009

Licorice is not generally viewed as health food. In fact, for many people, it’s simply something to munch on at the movie theater. But, a variant of licorice may help lower cholesterol and reduce body fat,...

Weight loss surgery helped Annette Bulger lose 115 pounds. Read her story on the Weight Loss Surgery Channel....

Weight loss surgery patients can have “loose” skin after dropping pounds. Several surgeries are available to help tighten this skin; plastic surgeon Joseph Michaels explains....

Type 2 diabetes can be cured among obese patients, and Covidien has gone beyond manufacturing surgical tools to be a bearer of this good news with the OAC....

Greetings! Wondering what your options are for tightening the excess skin that appeared as your weight dwindled? Worried about scarring? Plastic surgeon Dr. Joseph Michaels explains...

In the August 28, 2009 edition of WLS News, find out why an Indiana pizza shop was ordered to pay for an employee’s Lap-Band surgery after an accident, discover how the rate of childhood obesity has...

Weight-loss surgery done by experts is getting safer, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Ironically, The study concludes that one of the greatest “risks” to weight loss...

Mississippi nurses are turning their eye toward the children of the state, hoping to promote healthy weight from within the public schools. They are leading the way toward a new era in the field of...