It is not a pretty sight but is does generate a lot of moans and groans when I walk into the support group meeting wearing a scale around my neck. The caption below the scale reads: ”SCALEBATROSS”. They all pretty much know where I am going with this meeting, actually they were asking for it. What they didn’t know was what or when it would happen. It all started when a number of the group, prior to a meeting, bragged about getting on the scale everyday to see how much weight they had lost. They knew this wasn’t a practice I believed in and they also knew one day I would focus on this very issue with one of my bizarre visual aids. I walk into the meeting and say nothing. The group looks, most
Study Examines Link Between Gastric Bypass Surgery and Neurological Conditions - Katalin Juhasz Pocs
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- May 23, 2007 -- A decade-long study by neurologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock has found a link between gastric bypass surgery and several serious neurological conditions. The study concludes that patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, are at risk for long-term vitamin and mineral deficiencies and may develop a variety of neurological symptoms. "The frequency of operations for treatment of obesity is rapidly growing in the United States," Juhasz Pocsine said. "These procedures are usually successful in reducing weight, but they are not without risk. Many of the complications patients exp