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Have you hit the plateau after WLS?

By Alma Orozco · 14 years ago

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 ...

Plastic Surgery After Bariatric surgery

By Alma Orozco · 14 years ago

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 ...

Weight Loss Surgery and IVF

By Alma Orozco · 14 years ago

In Vitro fertilization (IVF) is one of the most innovative methods for managing infertility and makes use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to increase the chances that you will conceive. It is a process by ...

Diet After Gastric Bypass

By Alma Orozco · 14 years ago

Due to new digestive system after gastric bypass surgery, patients need to follow a special restrictive diet plan that is designed to be gentle on both new stomach pouch and intestinal bypass limb that carries ...

Quick Weight Loss with Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery

By Alma Orozco · 14 years ago

Sleeve gastrectomy surgery is one of the safest and rapid weight loss procedures for higher risk obese patients. It is relatively a new approach for those with a body mass index over 50 and is ...

Cost Effectiveness of Lap Band Surgery

By Alma Orozco · 15 years ago

Lap-Band Surgery is a very popular form of obesity surgery which causes weight loss simply by making the stomach smaller. But the cost of Lap-Band Surgery is not cheap. In USA, the cost of this ...

Options to Cure Obesity

By Alma Orozco · 15 years ago

Obesity means accumulation of excess fat on the body. Foods provide us with the nutrients we need for healthy bodies and calories for energy. But if you overeat regularly, you gain weight and if you ...

Lap Band Surgery Results

By Alma Orozco · 15 years ago

The Lap Band is a small, inflatable belt placed around a patient’s stomach. It is a small invasive laparoscopic surgery with minimal risks. The main benefit from this kind of surgery is-it restricts the amount ...

How is Lap Band different from Gastric Bypass?

By Alma Orozco · 15 years ago

Morbidly obese people generally find it difficult to lose weight using traditional weight loss methods. Such people choose to either gastric bypass or lap band surgery methods, which helps in reducing considerable amount of body ...

Controlling obesity

By Alma Orozco · 15 years ago

Obesity means the accumulation of excess fat on the body. According to most references, a person is classified as obese if they have a BMI (body mass index) of 30 or higher. The BMI is ...