Latest research suggests that you should not forget to take your multivitamins after gastric bypass surgery for obesity. The case of a woman who developed a vitamin deficiency disease because she did not take multivitamins after weight-loss surgery was taken up for study by Rachel Batterham and Alberic Fiennes, of University College London.

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A pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic products, today announced the weight loss effects of Qnexa in subjects with type 2 diabetes at The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Barbara Troupin, Senior Director of Clinical Development, announced the data in a poster presentation.

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Robot-assisted weight loss surgery cuts down a patient's risk of developing a rare but serious complication, according to a five-year study. Surgeons at the Texas University Medical School (TUMS), Houston, statistically analysed operation times, length of hospital stay and complications in 605 patients who either underwent laproscopic gastric bypass with surgeons or with robotic help at Texas Medical Centre.

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Sara Sloan could be the star of an advertisement for weight-reduction surgery. This 58-year-old retired teacher from Brooklyn had been “the heaviest kid in kindergarten, heavy my whole life,” she said, until she underwent gastric bypass surgery in May 2004 and lost 128 pounds in less than a year.

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Forget the facelift, how about sprucing up the old back?
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is pitching a new procedure to get rid of skin rolls on your middle and upper back. The group is releasing results of a small study of seven women who had what is being called the "bra-line back lift" between 2001 and 2007. Seven women underwent the procedure for this study.

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A pound of body weight always weighs a pound, right? Maybe not as far as your joints are concerned, a study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism shows.
In fact, researchers at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina found that for overweight or obese adults with osteoarthritis of the knee, losing a single pound could result in a 4 lb reduction in pressure placed on the knee joint.

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Insurers recover their costs for gastric surgery within two to four years for obese patients whose weight puts their lives in danger, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Managed Care. The funds devoted to keyhole weight-loss surgery were fully recovered after 25 months, said researchers led by Pierre-Yves Cremieux from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

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Despite what many late night infomercial spokespeople may claim, there's no magic pill that can make you lose weight. Even the fat burners that have shown some promise still require that a healthy diet and regular exercise program are still followed.

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Gastric banding, a surgical procedure designed to combat obesity, appears to boost the risk for developing or exacerbating symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). The finding stems from a review of research on the link between obesity and reflux. The experts concluded that gastric bypass may help reduce GERD, but gastric banding does not — a finding patients may want to consider when choosing one form of weight-loss surgery over another.

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The University of Pittsburgh study found the 55-minute regime was the minimum needed to maintain a 10% drop in weight. Only a quarter of the 200 women in the study managed to lose this amount. A UK expert said it was clear that regular moderate exercise was the way to lose weight, and keep it off.

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Looking for a fun way to get rid of that extra flab? Well, consider hooping, a fitness trend that will let you have a blast while slimming down. The athletic recreational activity is basically a new and improved version of hula hooping and it is about to become the next big thing in Tokyo. In hooping, you sway your hips slightly and send a large ring rotating around your body.

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People on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight because they have reduced their intake of a type of sugar the body turns quickly into fat, new research suggests.
A researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has found that fructose, commonly found in processed carbohydrates, turns into fat much faster than glucose and sucrose. All three are forms of sugar but the body metabolizes them differently.

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Eight-year-olds who were smaller at birth were more likely to have "vascular resistance", reported the European Heart Journal. The Southampton University team said this could contribute to high blood pressure decades later. However, no such problem was seen in low birth weight girls. Previous work has linked birth size to later heart disease and diabetes.

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A new study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that the low-carb diet is the best way for weight loss and cholesterol level, compared with the low-fat diet and the Mediterranean-style diet.Read the rest of this entry »

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Teen girls who spend a lot of time on the Internet are more likely to see their weight creeping slowly up than adolescents who spend less time in front of the computer screen, new research shows. And the association between computer use and weight held true even when the researchers accounted for the amount of exercise the girls were getting. The Harvard researchers also found that a lack of sleep and alcohol consumption were associated with increasing weight.

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