HealthDay Reporter, 14th December 2008

Weight-loss operation is sometimes a life-saving procedure for severly obese patients. What’s more, gastric bypass extends those patients’ lives. Surgeons have got a difficult decision to make who should and who shouldn’t undergo such an operation.

Internists, cardiologists and endocrinologists are being asked if a patient will benefit or not from the operation. For Dr. Edward H. Phillips from the Department of Surgery and a surgeon at the Center for Weight Loss in Los Angeles is obvious that a 30-year-old will benefit but he’s wondering what age should be considered as too old for such procedure.

Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:20am GMTLONDON (Reuters) - A third of all British adults — some 13 million people — will be obese by 2012 if current trends continue, jeopardising their health and straining healthcare budgets, researchers said on Thursday.

Over-eating and lack of exercise mean more and more Britons are seriously overweight, with 32.1 percent of men and 33.1 percent of women now expected to be clinically obese in four years’ time.

Almost half of them will be from low income and disadvantaged communities, widening the health gap between the haves and have-nots, according to Paola Zaninotto of University College London and colleagues.

Reuters UK, 3rd December 2008

Weight-loss surgery is a life-saving procedure for some patients. Unfortunately, the operation itself is not enough to come back in shape.

Patients who underwent such a procedure need to follow a diet and exercise. Studies show that more weight can be lost if these are taking into consideration.

In every day life exercising is needed to control the body weight. The role of physical exercise after the weight-loss surgery, however, wasn’t that clear. Recent researches show that regular physical activity after the weight-loss procedure show better results comparing to the patients who don’t exercise.

Science Daily, 1st December 2008

Lots of people have serious weight issues these days. Researches show that in 1980 15% of the American population was affected by obesity whereas in 2004 – almost 33%.

One of the problems related with obesity is NAFLD (Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease) – one of the most common liver diseases.
Batriatic surgery is not only an effective way of weight-loss; it’s also, as the recent researches show, a solution for histopathological features of NAFLD. There are numerous complications of NAFLD, such as steatosis, fibrosis and steatohepasis. Researches show they much improve or even resolve completely after weight-loss operation.