Weight Loss Surgery Tips

Aloe Vera Products Can Benefit You!

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:18:39 +0000

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Fight 80 known ailment straight from your kitchen using aloe vera. Aloe vera is a plant that many know to be a burn cure, but there is so much more that this amazing herbal miracle plant can do. Aloe vera gel can be utilized externally with sunburns, acne, radiation burns, burns, boils, gum sores, edemas, dandruff, hemorrhoids, dermatitis, varicose veins, inflammation in the eyes, psoriasis, insect bites and stings, skin rashes, irritations, ulcers, wounds, warts, and wrinkles. You would need to check this out with a trained herbalist of course, and be sure to notify your doctor of any herbal self treatments.

Aloe Vera is known as Nature’s Miracle Doctor!

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Are Bad Parents Making Children Fat? I Believe So. Here’s Why!

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:22:16 +0000

How do we solve the problems of today’s children who are obese? PARENTS. You have seen the commercial for the anti-drug solution and the answer to that was the same… PARENTS. I have the opinion that children are fat (in most cases) because parents allow it to go on. Most of the timea kid is FAT because of LAZY parenting and bad nutritional choices by the family. I have 3 beautiful children and they all are normal weight (one is slightly above average but her pediatrician said she was not in the overweight range).

I believe the reason they are living such a healthy lifestyle is the role that my wife and I play in their lives. We only let them have a sweet treat on “treat day” which is Sunday. Birthdays don’t count of course but overall we don’t keep sweet treats in the house. You will not find junk food in our kitchen but there are plenty of fruits and other healthy alternatives to snack on. Their drink of choice now, even at restaurants (which we seldom go to anyway) is water with lemon! They get candy at Easter, Valentines, Christmas, Halloween… etc. but it is not something that is around them 365 days out of the year. They are not constantly munching on chips and munching down frozen pizzas… it is because we as parents are involved… there are states now looking to give nutritional
counseling to children. See an article on this at http://rebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/nutrition-services-for-obese-kids-change-coming/ …but I am here to tell you that the best way to keep a kid from eating wrong is the anti-obese “drug” of choice, parents! We need to educate parents better, not the children. Yeah kids will eat junk food if all momma is buying is a couple cases of mountain dew, 10 packs of Oscar Meyer hotdogs, 5 bags of chips, 10 boxes of Little Debbies, cokes, candy, etc etc. around the house and normal healthy food is virtually non-existent.

Another ax to grind, I have is the need to give kids video games, computers, tv, and cell phones! Did you grow up “needing” these things? NO They are a “want” item that literally freezes your child into not moving around! Like the country song said by Lone Star’s song “Mr. Mom”… “Rewind Barney for the 16th time.” Does your kid need to watch the same show over and over 16 times in one day? 16 (30) minute shows is 8 hours! I am not surprised at all that this is not just a funny song but a reality for many overweight children.

Get your kids off these things and have them burn energy in the backyard or go on a walk… if they won’t go, have mom drop you and daughter off at the end of a hiking trail and tell her to go to the other end. The kids have no choice but to walk.. find fun games in back yard is a better option. Go on a trip to the zoo. Enjoy things out doors. You can make it fun.

Lets stop the trend of adolescent weight loss surgeries in America and get our kids unplugged and unjunkfooded out… and be good parents and stop this epidemic of obesity that is sweeping the nation!

Lap band Surgery Cheaper Than Traditional Methods? I have my doubts.

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:30:26 +0000

I stopped by this blog today that said this…

Research shows LAP band surgery is a cheaper way to fight obesity and diabetes than diets, exercise and other weight-loss methods Tracking 60 obese patients for two years, the study found the lifetime health care costs of gastric banding was $98,900, compared with $101,400 losing weight through conventional methods. Now I don’t know if that included the $6000 to get it done or not, but for the $2500 difference I think I’ll do it the good old fashioned way.

Now I am not normally a big skeptic, but this seems to fly in the face of what I have seen and observed. Where did this research come from? I would like to know a bit more. How will you pay that much in the process of losing weight the traditional way? Lets think about it for a minute… you are eating less food while on a reduced calorie diet (lower food bills), you can excercise at home or the local park for free, stop drinking sodas and go with free tap water… this is with the understanding that the person goes full steam into the weight loss effort with a self-motivated drive to acheive the goal of losing weight and keeping it off. It has to be a greater difference than $2500 compared to Lap Band.

Don’t get me wrong, if you have tried everything and can’t seem to get over the hump, then go for it… but the cost of traditional weight loss can’t be this much.

All bets are off if they regress to the point of a coronary within a year… but overall I cannot see traditional weight loss costing that much! Maybe if you are paying for some expensive ritzy gym membership in Beverly Hills, eating diet caviar and top of the line name brand diet food off of new gold plated utensils.

Oh well… it would be interesting to know where this research came from. I think I could find a way to lose weight “traditionally” at a much lower price than quoted above at the link below…

http://ldbeams.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/wednesday-weight-loss-tidbits/

Join the commentary by commenting on my site! I’d love to get feedback on this weight loss surgery topic!

Weight Loss Surgery Nothing to Fly Into

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:41:24 +0000

Weight loss surgery is nothing to just fly into. It is a decision that you must weigh only after you have truly applied yourself to acheive long lasting success through traditional methods, diet and excercise.

Good article here…
http://weightloss09.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/is-weight-loss-surgery-really-for-you/

Comment on your struggles making the decision with having WLS. I think most people who have had bariatric surgery will tell you it is no bed of roses!

Most People Don’t Know Why They Are Overweight

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:23:01 +0000

“Most people don’t know why they are overweight.
They think they know why but they don’t.”

I read this statement on a blog just now at http://bodywords.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/calorie-count/.

I think this is partially true. Many people are in a state of “self-denial” in facing the fact that their weight problem or “hunger” problem as this article proposes is out of hand.

What do you think? Are you “fat” and denying it all the way? Have no idea what got you there? Or are you conscious of it but feel trapped and hopeless (without medical intervention that is)? Tell what you think by commenting!

Weight Loss Surgery Lessens Chance of Cancer

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:50:08 +0000

It’s already known that weight-loss surgery for morbid obesity can reduce the risk of diabetes and heart problems. Now, new research shows that it may also cut a persons risk of cancer by 80-percent. Find out more from this weight loss video from Sciencentral.com

Stomach Stretching – Did Your Weight Loss Surgery Not Take? Possible Solution Found!

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:34:57 +0000

There is a a non-invasive procedure that’s new to Canada, the endoluminal pouch reduction. Because this new weight loss surgery procedure is so new, in Canada they are testing it in a clinical trial to see if bariatric surgeons can help weight loss surgery patients who had regained weight following traditional bariatric stomach surgery. So far, there has been a few hundred patients tested in the USA in the past year. If it is accepted then it could mean a nice safety net for those who seem to have a setback due to their flexible stomachs!

Have you had a setback following weight loss surgery? Tell us more!

Do FAT Kids Need Bariatric Surgery?

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:45:10 +0000

A increasing body of study suggests that the health of particularly obese youth can be satisfactorily changed by laparoscopic bariatric surgery. In the last decade alone, gastric bypass procedure has become the principal surgery used to treat morbid obesity in teens. It is important for patients to abide accurately to the proper dietary and exercise outlines given to them. They must have realistic and informed expectations about the impact of surgery not only on their weight, but on their body shape and eating habits as well.

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What do you think? Would you put your kid under the knife they were already morbidely obese? Leave a comment!

Weight Loss Surgery up 40%

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:20:44 +0000

Some new numbers put out by the NHS states that Weight loss surgery up 40% I knew the rates were really growing but wasn’t so sure it was increasing this fast, even with the economy. I guess with the lack of work, people are passing the time by losing weight. Nothing like hard times to make you want to get skinny to live it out until good times come around I guess! (The chart says 2009 but actually 2008 data. Forgive my diagram!) Read the article and come back here to comment!

What is Stomach Stapling?

Weight Loss Surgery Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:35:36 +0000

The oldest form of bariatric bypass surgery is the most well-known, stomach stapling. In this 30-year-old surgery, the largest part of the stomach is cut and then stapled shut. After the operation, only a small pocket is left behind. Shrinking the stomach so it can only hold half a cup of food makes it easier to feel full. Anyone out there had their stomach “stapled” lately? What was your results? Please comment.