Weight Loss Surgery Blog

Want a bigger paycheck? Your weight may affect this, especially for women. (more…)

There is a new study indicating that many types of chronic pain can be linked to obesity. People who’s BMI fit within the obesity range of 35+ or greater, suffer a higher incidence of problems relating to pain. The study was published by the American Pain Society. (more…)

A recent study on sleep loss and it’s apparent affects on obesity rates has been shown that it also applies to children as well. With the addition of busy schedules and extracurricular activities can keep a child up longer at night than they should be. (more…)

Over the years there have been many drug treatments that have been tested to help people lose weight. Some include reducing a person’s appetite while others held the promise to increase a person’s metabolism. Unfortunately, excessive weight gain and obesity are very difficult to treat being that it’s a critical medical issue and varies from patient to patient. However, mostly because it comes down to lifestyles and rethinking what people put in their mouths to eat. (more…)

A recent study, first announced by USA Today CNN, details that most Americans are in denial that they are obese. Typically people are concerned about their image and how they appear, however, what they see in the mirror is not an accurate measurement of whether they are obese or not. This is often masked by loose fitting clothes and clothing manufactures purposely modifying the clothes sizing to try to trick people into thinking they are smaller than they actually are. (more…)

A recent report by CNN examines a primates view of living like a human and the consequences of reward based snacking which leads to obesity. (more…)

A recent report published by CNN suggests that older women with excessive fat deposits around their thighs experience more memory deterioration than women who are more round. The primary reason for this is the type of fat that is situated around the thighs and hips compared to the fat that’s located around the waist. (more…)

There have been many issues regarding the accuracy of the BMI method of which a person’s body fat is measured. Accordingly, the BMI method uses a measurement of weight as it relates to a person’s height to calculate body fat. Unfortunately, this method has shown itself to be flawed. Athletic people with a higher percentage of muscle and elderly people who lose height with age are often miscalculated and considered obese by the BMI standard. (more…)

The World Health Organization has projected that over seven hundred million adults will become obese by 2015. With obesity comes the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes. (more…)

A recent report published by the European Health Journal stated that impoverished people are more likely to become obese than those who are wealthy.

The study is in direct contradiction of the idea that in Europe, poverty results in starving people. This is in direct contrast to some African countries where the least expensive foods are also the least nourishing, lacking proper calorie intake – resulting in starvation. However, in Europe and other western cultures, the least expensive foods are also the most calorie dense so the impoverished are more at risk to becoming obese.

Healthier food, by contrast, are more expensive, and during the current global recession many of the poor have been forced to eating processed starches like pasta and rice as a common everyday staple – which once consumed is converted to sugar. A continual diet of starch causes the body to store fat and increases the desire to eat as well – perpetuating the rise in obesity.

The food choice of the poor, out of necessity, has also been responsible for an increase in Type 2 related diabetes. With the continual global increase in health care costs and a projected increase in obesity related illnesses, society needs to wake up and pay attention to this fact and look for alternatives ways to properly feed the poor or pay heavily later to treat the affects of obesity as it relates to their diets.