Weight Loss Blog

From Fox News:
Researchers in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine describe six cases in which people were diagnosed with noncancerous tumors in their pancreas following gastric bypass surgery. These tumors caused the pancreas to produce too much insulin, the hormone that processes blood sugar, resulting in symptoms of low blood sugar — especially following […]

Found an interesting article at Forbes.com regarding weight-loss surgeries. As you can tell by the headline, they are on the uprise.
The number of Americans who had weight-loss surgery quadrupled between 1998 and 2002, new research shows.
This isn’t too suprising, but what suprised me is the cost of such procedures. Forbes mentioned these surgeries […]