Obesity is known to increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even sleep apnea. However, the impact that carrying extra weight has on people’s skeletal systems, including their joints, muscles, and connective tissue, is often overlooked.
Physicians frequently hear overweight patients complain of foot, knee, and back pain. While analgesics can provide [...]

Bariatric surgery is a tool that can help you lose weight that you have been unable to lose with any other method. Its success rate is very high, but it is not a journey to be undertaken lightly, and it is not appropriate for everyone. In general, you will need to consider the physical, emotional [...]

One of the common concerns expressed by individuals who are considering bariatric surgery or who have recently undergone such a procedure is whether or not they will need periodic vitamin B shots to maintain good health. There is no easy answer to this question. The answer depends mainly on the type of surgical procedure performed. [...]

Medical investigators have found that many significantly overweight people have been eating so habitually that they no longer experience physical hunger. And in fact, what they refer to as hunger is really appetite (the emotional desire for food).
Following bariatric surgery, patients are left with a very small stomach, ranging in size from a large walnut [...]

An abundance of inexpensive, ready-to-eat food items that have been specially formulated with high fat and abundant sugar and salt have made it easy for people to use food as a tool to manage their moods. Food is so easy to come by that many people are not even aware of the fact they turn [...]

The National Weight Control Registry (a collection of data from people who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a year or more) has identified regular exercise as one of the behaviors necessary for weight loss success. Surgeons and support groups working with weight loss surgery patients also recognize exercise as [...]