Hitting Bottom – What Helped Guide Me Toward Gastric Bypass Surgery

Thanksgiving, what a wonderful time especially when spent with family and friends. The food sure was good – I am lucky that I did not burst the pouch that was constructed when I had my gastric bypass surgery last year.  Today I learned that one of our neighbors died unexpectedly and they think it was [...]

Gastric Bypass Surgery for Weight Loss

From your next door neighbor to television celebrities we see those that seem to have experienced a sudden weight loss. For some their new svelte figure has been the result of liposuction and others a dedication to diet and exercise. Still for others the answer was gastric bypass weight loss surgery.
Qualifying for a gastric bypass [...]

Health Matters: Video Interview Discussing Bariatric Surgery for Weight Loss

I have been asked by a number of people why I had gastric bypass surgery. While I understand that morbid obesity leads to “Terminal Obesity” some people seem to be offended by the use of the term “Terminal Obesity.” Sorry about that folks but I tell it like it is. Morbid nearly doubles the risk [...]

Overweight and Obesity Related Cost to the US Economy

As the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased in the United States, so have related health care costs-both direct and indirect. Direct health care costs refer to preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services such as physician visits, medications, and hospital and nursing home care. Indirect costs are the value of wages lost by people unable [...]

Andover Village: A Story of Severe Morbid Obesity and Beautiful People

Today while channel surfing I was blessed when I came across a program on Discovery Health that was titled Super Obese. As I viewed the program my emotions ran all over the place. Being allowed to intrude into the lives of these extremely obese individuals I felt privileged. Here were people some that had been [...]

Obesity and Diabetes: A Dangerous Trend with Terminal Results

By Alexandra White,
of Isis Research
While the western world reads of the desperate problems facing those in developing parts of the world, with drought causing widespread malnutrition, we are seeing one of the most visible, yet most neglected public health problems rise to epidemic proportions on our own doorstep. Obesity. Around 20-25% of the population in [...]

April 1, 2008 Interview with Al Roker

April 1, 2008 Al Roker the loveable weatherman of the NBC’s Today Show appeared on the Howard Stern Radio Show. He was there to promote his new Spike TV series, DEA. A “Prison Break” As one might expect from a Howard Stern interview the subjects drifted from him loosing his virginity as [...]