18

Sep

Restrict Caffeine After Bariatric Surgery

People who are morbidly obese may choose bariatric surgery as a means to lose excess weight. Surgical approaches for weight loss surgery include gastric bypass, Roux-en-Y, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding or a gastric sleeve surgery. Each type of surgery poses special diet...

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18

Sep

How to Avoid Gastric Sleeve Failure After Your Weight Loss Surgery

Research suggests 20-30% of patients either do not achieve their weight loss goals or regain weight after bariatric surgery. How can you make sure you are not included in this stats? You´ll first need to follow a diet and exercise as recommended by an expert on gastric slee...

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18

Sep

Do I Really Need to Lose Weight Before Weight Loss Surgery?

Losing weight is very frustrating, and it gets even worse when a weight loss surgeon asked to lose weight before a weight loss surgery. So, what's the point? A successful weight loss surgery starts with preparing your body for surgery. By losing the prescribed weight prior t...

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18

Sep

Obesity Control Center: A Nation’s Challenge to for Weight Loss.

Few Mexican doctors have appeared in United States media as much as Ariel Ortiz, director of a Tijuana Hospital named  Obesity Control Center (OCC), which has over a decade track record of successfully treating patients from the United States seeking weight-loss su...

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18

Sep

Stay Away From Tobacco

Why should I quit? Your health. This is a very real concern: smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Half of all smokers who keep smoking will end up dying from a smoking-related illness. In the United States alone, smoking is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths, and about...

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18

Sep

Body Fat: Percentage Vs. Body Mass

What's the best measurement to assess health risks from being overweight? Experts say BMI and body-fat percentage both have their place. Some experts tout BMI, or body mass index, as the most accurate way to determine the effect of weight on your health. In fact, most recent...

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18

Sep

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The Lap Band for Teens and Adolescents

The gastric lapband has a promising future for special patients. Now that more than a decade of experience has passed and after perfecting this technique, the procedure has been proven to be safe and effective. This opens new possibilities in its application for weight loss in va...

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