15th January 2010
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Lap Band, or laparoscopic gastric band surgery is a restrictive bariatric operation, which reduces the size of the stomach, thus reducing the calorie intake with no malabsorptive element, or alteration in the anatomy...
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12th January 2010
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Severe obesity has been known to be associated with life threatening morbidities including Type 2 diabetes, arthritis, asthma, sleep apnea, hypertension and heart disease.
Epidemiological data have consistently de...
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07th January 2010
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Patients are often discouraged from consuming alcohol for up to a year following bariatric surgery for several reasons. Not only is alcohol a source of empty calories, increasing your overall calorie intake, thereby ...
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29th December 2009
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The basic aim of a gastric bypass is to help you lose weight in order to avoid the co-morbidities of obesity, and therefore, your diet following surgery is also specially designed to achieve this objective, and also ...
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21st December 2009
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Obesity is a metabolic disorder with an increasing prevalence, and is associated with several serious co-morbidities including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, sleep apnea, arthritis and polycystic ovarian synd...
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10th December 2009
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Pediatric obesity has currently reached epidemic proportions, resulting in an increasing number of adolescents with morbidities related to obesity.
Obese teenagers have an increased risk of health as well as social pro...
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08th December 2009
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Dramatic weight loss achieved as the result of bariatric surgery, or from other forms of medical treatment, has several benefits as far as the reduction in morbidities associated with obesity is concerned. Patients who ha...
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07th December 2009
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The aim of gastric bypass surgery is to make the patient lose weight and avoid the morbidities associated with obesity. Patients who are morbidly or severely obese are at increased risk for health problems, tend to have a...
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01st December 2009
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A single bariatric surgery procedure is usually sufficient for most patients, providing adequate long term weight loss. In some patients, the first weight loss surgery procedure may not result in the desired effects, and ...
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01st December 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Alma Orozco
The symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, OSA, include sleepiness during the day (hypersomnia); snoring; episodes of choking, or breathing cessation, during sleep; awakening with a dry mouth or sore throat; and morning hea...
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25th November 2009
Sleep apnea is the state where you discontinue breathing in the night for small intervals. There are three kinds of sleep apnea, including central, mixed and obstructive. Out of these, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused because of blockage of airway,...
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25th November 2009
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Obesity in an expectant mother negatively affects her pregnancy, even affecting conception, since infertility is a frequent problem associated with excess weight. In addition, pregnancy in an obese woman tends to increase...
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24th November 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Alma Orozco
The aim of gastric bypass surgery is to make the patient lose weight and avoid the morbidities associated with obesity. The post-surgery diet is therefore designed to achieve that goal, without forgetting the essential ro...
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16th October 2009
Feel like you're doing everything right but still the scale is not budging? It's challenging to take off pounds, but it's even more difficult to keep them off. Are you frustrated because the weight loss has just stopped? Most people after weight loss sur...
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11th September 2009
Many people dream of losing weight and attaining that perfect body everyone craves. Yet only a small percentage of these people are able fulfill this dream by dieting and exercise alone. An overwhelming majority of people discover losing weight cannot be ...
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