Couple Denied Adoption Due to Father’s Weight gwhqadmin January 30, 2009 Breaking WLS News Couple Denied Adoption Due to Father's Weight In the U.K., a local council recently refused to allow one couple to adopt because the husband’s body mass index was more than 42 – categorizing him...
Texas Taxpayers May Cover New Obesity Program gwhqadmin January 23, 2009 Breaking WLS News Texas Taxpayers May Cover New Obesity Program Texans don't want to go through life fat, sick, and uninsured. But here in America, if you don’t have medical insurance – or a big pile of cash –...
‘Fat’ Flight Attendants Fight to Fly gwhqadmin January 23, 2009 Breaking WLS News Flight attendants in India are fighting to fly. Air India – that country’s national airline – recently sacked ten female flight attendants for putting on a few extra pounds – and now,...
Hormone Therapy May Mitigate Obesity Related Cancer Risk gwhqadmin January 23, 2009 Breaking WLS News A lack of hormone therapy may contribute to a higher cancer risk for obese women. A seven-year-long study looked at almost a HUNDRED THOUSAND women ages 50 to 71 and found that obese women were no more...
Fast Food Favors Fat gwhqadmin January 23, 2009 Breaking WLS News Does eating food fast make you fat? A team of researchers in the U.K. thinks it might – and that the tendency to scarf down a meal can be passed down from parents to kids. In a recent study, doctors...
Robotic Weight Loss Surgery Minimizes Risk gwhqadmin January 23, 2009 Breaking WLS News A Georgia hospital recently made state history by hosting the first robotic weight loss surgery. Doctors at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center performed a gastric bypass procedure using the newly...
WLS on the Web – Livingafterwls.com and livinglavidalowcarb.com gwhqadmin January 16, 2009 Breaking WLS News Yvonne tours the web, and visits two sites that help people recover from weight loss surgery: Livingafterwls.com and...
Vitamins Vital for Those in Recovery From Weight Loss Surgery gwhqadmin January 16, 2009 Breaking WLS News It is essential that weight loss surgery patients maintain proper vitamin intake. Researcher and scientist Dr. Erlend Aasheim (OZ-ime) has released a report indicating that weight loss surgery patients...