Weight Loss Surgery

Chris Christie's weight-loss surgery: How does it work?

2013-05-07 13:25:00

An estimated 220,000 Americans undergo some type of bariatric surgery each year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has revealed that he is one of them. The high-profile Republican – who hasn’t revealed his weight but is estimated to tip the...

Letters: Obesity and the diabetes epidemic

2013-01-12 00:00:00

Re "Diabetes a stubborn foe," Jan. 6 Though the article successfully portrayed indifferent diabetics, it neglected to mention the uncommon diabetics who work out and eat right. I am an 18-year-old diabetic, and while I can attest that diabetes is a...

1-800-GET-THIN centers criticized

2012-01-31 00:00:00

Weight-loss surgeons from across the United States are attempting to distance themselves from surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising for Lap-Band surgery. In a letter to House members considering a congressional investigation of...

FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads

2011-12-14 00:00:00

The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients. The...

Inaction by regulators as weight loss surgery allegations mount

2012-01-22 00:00:00

Several current or former workers for the people behind those 1-800-GET-THIN ads have made allegations about this weight-loss enterprise that government regulators should have gotten to the bottom of long ago. Taken together, the allegations are that...

Lap-Band surgeons critical of 1-800-GET-THIN [Updated]

2012-01-30 14:42:00

Lose weight with fake food?

2010-10-10 12:09:00

News from the Obesity Society annual meeting in San Diego: -- Doctors have tried inserting a balloon into the stomach to make a person feel full so he won't eat as much and will lose weight. Now scientists are turning to a similar strategy that...

Gastric bypass before babies?

2009-09-07 00:00:00

An overweight woman who has weight-loss surgery before becoming pregnant may help break the cycle of obesity in her family, according to a new study. Researchers found that children born to women who had weight-loss surgery before pregnancy have improved...

Gastric bypass: Is it a diabetes fix?

2009-10-26 00:00:00

The discovery came about by accident more than a decade ago: Weight-loss surgery often led to dramatic improvements in the control of Type 2 diabetes, often before patients had even left the hospital. Today, evidence of the connection is so solid that...

What now for weight loss?

2010-10-09 11:52:00

The country is down to onededicated, prescription obesity medication -- the not-too-pleasantXenical -- since Friday's announcement that Meridiawill be removed from the market due to an increased risk ofheart problems among people with cardiovascular...

Gastric bypass and alcohol: mix with caution

2011-03-10 16:35:00

Alcohol can be a minefield for anyone trying to lose weight. But for bariatric surgery patients, drinking can become�increasingly problematic,�a new�study has found. Changes in the way the body absorbs and metabolizes alcohol after gastric bypass mean...

Weight-loss surgery surges among California kids, especially white girls

2010-09-21 11:27:00

A study of bariatric surgery on California�adolescents shows that growing numbers of families are opting for a surgical solution to their children's obesity. But a study on trends in�bariatric surgery�among those under 21�shows that, in this population,�...

South Bend Tribune Photo/ROBERT FRANKLIN Kimmie Tretheway talks with dietician Julie Lovisa during her first post-op appointment four weeks after receiving bariatric surgery inside Memorial Bariatric Surgery Center in Mishawaka on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.

2012-06-29 05:42:00