Sagging Skin After Weight Loss

For those of us that are morbidly obese and decide to loose a lot of weight, sagging skin especially skin folds of the abdomen, arms breasts, thighs and neck will sometimes become a concern. If we are considering “bariatric” surgery, including gastric banding and gastric bypass perhaps sagging skin is more of a concern as [...]

What the Duke Did About Exercise

Chap 15: A Better Body for Better Sex (Part 2)

By Terrance Lile – Uncle Terry

Finally heeding the doctor’s advice I started to take exercise seriously. Knowing that I was still lacking the motivation to do it entirely on my own I purchased a gym membership and worked out with a personal trainer 3 days per [...]

A Better Body for Better Sex

The following is part of a chapter of my unpublished book “Sex From the Womb to the Tomb,”

Medicare and Bariatric Surgery Considerations

As a senior, when I looked into bariatric surgery I first checked to see if any of them were covered by Medicare. I was pleased to learn that presently Medicare nationally covers open and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, and open and laparoscopic biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch even though the terminology [...]

Medicare Covered Bariatric Surgery

MEDICARE EXPANDS NATIONAL COVERAGE FOR BARIATRIC SURGERY PROCEDURES
February 21, 2006 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is expanding Medicare’s national coverage of bariatric surgery for all Medicare beneficiaries. For seniors, who have experienced high complication rates in some settings, Medicare will cover the procedure only in high-volume centers that achieve [...]

Chocolate Cream Filled Donut

I overslept and was now running late for an appointment an hour away. No time for coffee, better skip breakfast; I need to stop for gas. At the gas station I go inside for that morning fix – a cup of steaming hot black coffee. As I pour my coffee – staring back at me [...]

Exercise a Key to Great Sex

As obese individuals sex often becomes a challenge.

Terry – “My Long Winded Obesity Story”

I have spent my life as a fat person. While not always morbidly obese, most of my childhood and adult life has been spent thinking that way. I started out as a cute little bundle of fat, seven pounds at birth, which is a normal-weight. As I matured though I quickly became an overweight child. [...]

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