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More than 11,500 gastric band operations were performed in Australia last year. The procedure is helping to combat Australia’s rapidly increasing obesity rate. The rates of overweight and obese adults in Australia have doubled over the last two decades. Two… Read more »
Obesity related issues are never out of the news these days. From crash diets to rigorous hours in the gym, it seems that most people are on a quest to shed some weight. Weight goes up, then comes down, then… Read more »
Dr Phil Hammond thinks that there is no excuse for letting so many people suffer the disease and disability that is often a consequence of obesity. He says it is a lazy answer that the NHS just doesn’t have the… Read more »
Dr Peter Holt of Rockefeller University in New York says that people who undergo Gastric Bypass surgery are likely to have large quantities of alcohol in the blood even if they drink little, which takes a long time to wear off. He… Read more »
Trials of EndoBarrier have shown that obese patients who suffered diabetes reported a lessening of symptoms and significant weight loss. It was initially thought that the weight loss caused diabetic patients to go into remission. It was later found that most… Read more »