Gaining weight after a weight loss surgery may affect you both emotionally and physically. When this happens, there is no need to beat yourself up. Getting support and using creative ways to renew your commitment to losing weight will help you get back on track to meeting your weight loss goal. Below are useful tips [...]

Weight loss surgery saves lives, extends lives, and prevents disease and premature death in severely obese people. Although weight loss surgery costs may appear rather high, the returns may be as much as five-fold. It has been observed that after bariatric surgery, death from heart attacks and cancer are lower among those who choose weight [...]

Laparoscopic weight loss surgery is a minimally invasive technique used by doctors to perform weight loss surgery without having to make an open incision. Small incisions are made to allow surgical instruments and a slender illuminated optical or fiber optic camera into the body cavity. Surgery is done by remote control. Laparoscopic Weight Loss Surgery [...]

People who are obese or morbidly obese may wish to consider undergoing weight loss surgery in Mexico if they do not have insurance coverage for the surgery, or if the bariatric surgery cost in their own country is too prohibitive. Weight loss surgery costs between $15,000 and $25,000 in America, whereas in Mexico, weight loss [...]

Any woman would be overjoyed to go from a size 42 to a size 18. When this happens, plastic surgery after major weight loss becomes inevitable. After losing so much weight, one would have many layers of excess skin hanging from the arms, thighs and abdomen. The abdomen especially develops rolls of excess skin. The [...]

In duodenal switch weight loss surgery, the outer portion of the stomach is removed. The shape of the new stomach after a duodenal switch resembles that of a banana and can hold about 150 cc. The initial 1-inch segment of duodenum remains connected to the bottom of the stomach. This tiny section of duodenum is [...]

Chantix is the trade name used in the USA for Varenicline, a prescription medication used to treat smoking addiction in adults 18 and over. Chantix (Champix in Europe and other countries) is marketed by Pfizer. Unlike other products which help smokers to stop smoking, Chantix does not contain any nicotine. It targets nicotine receptors in [...]

Many people who are contemplating weight loss surgery would want to know what happens to their stomach after weight loss surgery. Your digestive makeup changes after weight loss surgery and you will need to understand how your stomach has changed, and the type of diet you need to go on to accommodate the changes to [...]

Weight loss surgery such as the lap band and gastric bypass weight loss surgeries involve altering your digestive system to help you lose a substantial amount of weight. The change in the make up of your digestive system means you will need to change your way of eating after weight loss surgery. Unlike fad diets, [...]

Statistics in 2008 from the American Heart Association indicate that 142 million adult Americans are overweight, of which 67.3 million are considered obese. Experts estimate that 140,000 patients underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2004 with that number increasing each year. What’s more, there has also been an increase in the number of teenagers undergoing weight [...]