Gastric Bypass Nutrition Headlines

Sydney's appetite for reduction

WEIGHT loss surgery has tripled in five years and western Sydney is at the heart of the trend.

K-State Professor Using Snack Cake Diet to Counter Popular Health Beliefs

MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A monthlong diet of entirely snack cakes and fatty foods may sound like a fantasy, but for one Kansas State University professor it's serious business. In 30 days Mark Haub is attempting to prove some common beliefs about nutrition are untrue. Haub, professor of human nutrition, teaches an obesity-related, energy balance course that sparked his ...

Surgery through the belly button

A medical-device company in North Carolina and bariatric surgeon Dr. Brian B. Quebbemann of Newport Beach, Calif., have teamed up for weight-loss surgery requiring just one incision. The operation was the first time a surgeon has used a new Spider surgical tool for an increasingly frequent form of bariatric surgery that cuts the stomach down to 20 percent of its normal capacity, Quebbemann said.

Obesity isn't that simple

Barely a week passes without some expert or another advising us that this or that NHS procedure is unaffordable and should be restricted.

Obesity Surgery Up Tenfold In England

The number of NHS operations for bariatric or weight loss surgery has increased tenfold in England since 2000 say researchers, who suggest the main reason is because obese patients are more aware of it as a viable treatment option. Researchers at Imperial College London conducted their observational population cohort study, which covered all the people who had a first elective bariatric ...