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Tune into the May 29, 2009 edition of WLS News to find out which is worse for your health: being an overweight non-smoker or a skinny nicotine addict. Plus, learn which stress factors can cause teens to gain weight, discover how budget cuts in the Canadian healthcare system are putting the lives of pre-op bariatric patients at risk, and learn why Aussie bureaucrats have banned birthday cake. It's all in this week's episode -- click to view now!

Obesity Caused by Overeating, Not Laziness According to one Australian academic, Americans are fat because we eat too much, not because we’re lazy. In remarks made at an obesity conference in...

Bringing Heart to Mind Heart disease kills more women in the United States than any other disease – but are American women concerned by that? Nope. Statistics say that only one in five women...

Mississippi Approves WLS In our next story, Mississippi has long suffered with high obesity rates among its citizens – by some counts the highest obesity rates in the nation.  Now, in an effort to...

Good Germs May Burn Belly Fat Single-celled organisms have no free will as we know it, and are therefore morally neutral. However, some of them by their nature cause us harm, while others do us good....

Allergies Linked to Obesity Obesity rates among young people are rising. So is the number of young people with asthma and allergies. Now, a new study of the largest nationally representative data set...

Greetings! In the May 22, 2009 edition of WLS News, learn what the makers of the Lap-Band are doing to fight heart disease in women, find out what researchers have...

Tune into the May 22, 2009 edition of WLS News, to find out how childhood obesity can lead to a range of allergies, learn how yogurt can help post-partum moms lose weight, and discover what the makers of the LAP-BAND® are doing to address obesity-related heart disease in women. Plus, find out which state passed new legislation to cover bariatric surgery for government employees, and hear one expert's thoughts on how Americans can shed those extra pounds.