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Will having weight loss surgery affect your alcohol consumption? For years we’ve heard different answers to this question, ranging from ‘not at all’ to worrisome information about increased alcohol use after surgery. A new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that as much as half of high-risk drinkers are less likely to report […]

If you’ve ever spent 45 minutes on the treadmill only to realize you haven’t even burned off the calories in one Lean Cuisine, you probably know exercise alone is not going to be responsible for massive weight loss. On the other hand, exercise – or movement – is important in many ways. Most people know […]

When you dedicate your career to fighting obesity, how does that affect the choices you make in your personal life? Welcome to Off the Clock, where we ask bariatric experts a question about their own lives. Today we asked: what is the Halloween candy policy in your own house?

Many women experience bothersome symptoms during menopause. Hot flashes are one of the most frequent symptoms, affecting up to 80 percent of menopausal women in America, and can persist for years.  Hot flashes and night sweats are classified as vasomotor symptoms (VMS), and they are especially troublesome. They negatively affect a woman’s quality of life […]

A new study of older male patients says that gastric bypass may not result in healthcare savings for this group. Researchers at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care found that healthcare costs for gastric bypass patients involved in this study, remained about the same following surgery.  The study compared 850 military veterans […]

People with diabetes who are mildly obese — those with a body mass index (BMI) between 30 and 35 – currently do not qualify for weight loss surgery according to the NIH guidelines, yet they make up a larger group than very obese people with diabetes. More than a quarter of people in the United […]

Taste is an important determinant of food ingestion, which, in turn, is one of the many factors relevant to the study of obesity. The tongue, as most would assume, has been the primary focus of research on taste for the last 20 years. However, today at the Obesity 2011 meeting, there was a fascinating symposium […]

A report in the July 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine found that having fast food restaurants in one’s neighborhood has an impact on consumption of fast food. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looked at data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study, from its baseline […]