Paul Mason is still believed to be the world’s fattest man but that’s a distinction he doesn’t plan on holding onto for too long. Having lost 20 stone already (approximately 128 kg), Mason is mobile again. The former postman has a long history of losing and gaining back weight, but, this time, he&rs... |
3 January 2011
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Investigators have recently established that teens who get a gastric bypass surgery, and then become pregnant, have a much higher chance of having babies who suffer from birth defects than their peers. Though the correlation was only established in a small number of cases, experts believe that further investigations ... |
4 October 2010
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The use of weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery, is ten times more frequent in NHS hospitals in England, than it was in 2000, a new study published on bmj.com finds.A team of researchers from the Imperial College London analyzed national results after surgery on obese patients in the NHS in England.They used the ... |
28 August 2010
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“Imagine you are the daughter of a supermodel,” Zulekha Haywood, Iman’s 31-year-old daughter, says for the latest issue of Glamour magazine. And then she adds what had been a cruel reality for her for her entire life, until a year and a half ago: “Now imagine you weigh 330 pounds.” Zulek... |
14 April 2010
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At 19 years of age, Malissa Jones of Selby, North Yorks, England, sees herself as the unhappiest woman alive, whose future is extremely bleak unless she somehow comes up with £20,000 required to undergo cosmetic surgery. At 16, Malissa, Britain’s fattest teen, underwent gastric bypass after doctors told h... |
2 December 2009
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Losing weight in the spotlight can often be hard, especially since most tend to question whether the celebrity doing it is cheating or not. This is precisely the topic of a new “Oprah” episode that will air this week, with Star Jones revealing that her getting gastric bypass in 2003 was the only thing tha... |
1 April 2009
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Most people who are overweight and want to lose a few extra pounds ask themselves if they should go about achieving this via gastric bypass, or simply sticking to physical exercises. There are numerous proponents and critics to both methods, but a recently-released study shows that there is little difference between ... |
16 December 2008
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While most civilized countries employ a public health service, the United States continue to lag behind, being caught in the clutches of various private insurance firms, which have their own interest in mind, instead of that of the policy beneficiary. This was further proven recently, when Medicare – the compan... |
18 November 2008
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