Best Syndication, 22 March 2009

It is not easy to lose weight. There is no facile way, they all require lots of good will, self-abnegation and patience. The result is well worth it, though. Being slimmer means better health, easier moving, higher self-esteem, not to mention great look.

People who lost a lot of weight might find it difficult to deal with it afterwards. Extended skin is the major problem. It is too loose after having lost serous weight. Also fat deposits are visible in some places.

Losing weight, no matter if through exercising, diet or cosmetic surgery, is only the first part of all the changes.

WCBS-TV New York, 16th March 2009

In general, patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery lose unwanted weight (typically 60 to 70% of the excess weight) and stop suffering from obesity-related diseases. A few years after the procedure, though, something might change and those patients need more help.

Tammy Blakeney had a weight-loss operation ten years ago, when she was 30. She weighted 400 pounds and had problems with blood pressure and sleep apnea. What’s more, in her family there was a history of heart disease.

Looks like there is a new way of weight-loss.

Carol Poe, a 60 year-old mother-of-two, tried everything to lose weight. She tried dieting, exercising, batriatic surgery. These methods were not effective and Carol decided to undergo the most radical treatment – brain surgery.

She was desperate to lose weight. At her heaviest, she weighted 490 pounds, and, as she says, she provoked constant interest in every aspect of her life.

Mrs. Poe, after having tried every possible way of losing weight, knew her problem had to be connected with her brain.

NHS Choices, 3rd March 2009

Experts say obese children should be given possibility to beat diabetes by undergoing gastric banding procedure. Also paediatricians are of the opinion that more radical treatment in this matter is needed from NHS, otherwise the children will suffer serious health problems in the future.

In the recent studies a group of 73 teenagers took part. The studies were carried out by Dr. J. Shields and colleagues from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London, the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. All patients had type 2 diabetes and were treated in a variety of ways, such as medicines, diet, physical exercise to lose weight and diabetes. Many patients gained weight rather than lost it which shows ineffectiveness of the treatment.